Ancient Rome
Tabnit Gisgo: The Gisgo Chronicles, Volume 1: 323BC–321BC
M.D. Eyre has created an antihero to rank with the best of them: cowardly, crass, bumbling, and thoroughly unpleasant, along,…
The Sower of the Seeds of Dreams
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Roman Britain, 368 AD. Acting Primicerius Canio has become mixed up in the death of a suspected deserter who, in…
Getorix: Games of the Underworld
The second book in Judith Geary’s popular Getorix series finds the young Celt in Rome, treading the line between slave…
Praetorian
Praetorian is the 11th book in the series relating the careers of Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro. A consignment of…
Vanity and Valor: The Blood of Rome
In R. Lynn’s debut novel (a well-designed e-book) set in ancient Rome, young Thaddius has recently become the leader of…
The Bow of Heaven: Book 1, The Other Alexander
Editors' choice
Levkoff’s beautifully written and thrillingly good Roman historical novel opens with a crotchety 85-year-old man looking back on his eventful…
Master and God
More cloak-and-dagger than sword-and-sandals, Master and God follows Emperor Domitian’s Rome (AD 80-96) through the eyes of ‘a reluctant hero’,…
The Corpus Conundrum: A Third Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
As the title suggests, this is the third book of a series featuring Pliny the Younger. Using Pliny’s first person…
Spartacus: The Gladiator
Editors' choice
Thanks to Hollywood, Spartacus is one of the most familiar figures of Roman history, notorious and glorified for his slave…
The Bow of Heaven: Book 1: The Other Alexander
Editors' choice
Levkoff’s beautifully written and thrillingly good Roman historical novel opens with a crotchety 85-year-old man looking back on his eventful…
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