2nd Century
The Everlasting
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Andiamo a Roma! We’ll visit the Eternal City four times in Katy Simpson Smith’s brilliant new novel The Everlasting, set in ...Read Review
The Peregrine’s Odyssey: Burnt Offerings – A Novel of Early Christianity
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During the first 20 years of the 2nd century AD, Gaius Segusiavus Peregrinus is torque-bearer of the Gallic clan based near Lugdunum (Lyon, France). ...Read Review
A Prisoner of Privilege (A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain)
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In 194 AD, following civil war, Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor of the Roman Empire, but Pescennius Niger is still contending for the throne. ...Read Review
Brigantia (Vindolanda)
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Britannia, AD 100. Flavius Ferox is a centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia’s frontier with the barbarian tribes of the North. ...Read Review
Commodus (The Damned Emperors)
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My all-time favourite kind of historical novel is the kind where I learn about a real person I know very little about, and ...Read Review
The Scorpion’s Strike (Empire series)
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AD 186. The Scorpion’s Strike continues the story of Marcus Aquila’s fight for justice for himself and his family. Fresh from their ...Read Review
Arrius: Volume III, Enemy of Rome
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This third novel in the Arrius trilogy finds the Romans expanding northwards into Scotland from Hadrian’s Wall. Arrius, once a career Roman ...Read Review
ARRIUS Volume 2: Legacy
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This second volume of the Arrius saga follows the pattern of Volume 1. Arrius is now military commander of an outpost of Rome in ...Read Review
The Encircling Sea
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The Encircling Sea sees the return of Goldsworthy’s loveable rogue Flavius Ferox to the northern frontier of Roman Britain in 100 AD. Roughly ...Read Review
Memento Mori
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Ruso, a Roman army medic living a life of bucolic domesticity with the family of his British wife, receives a desperate plea from ...Read Review