2nd Century

Daughter of the Seven Hills

By Margaret McNellis - Published 2024

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Daughter of The Seven Hills has something for everyone. The story of a girl, Aurelia, born into one of Rome’s noble families ...Read Review

Caracalla (The Damned Emperors, 4)

By S.J.A. Turney - Published 2023

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AdventureBiographical Fiction

It’s 189 AD when little Marcus, firstborn son of distinguished Roman commander Lucius Septimius Severus, has his first glimpse of his father’s ...Read Review

The Hollow Throne (The Sarmatian Trilogy)

By Tim Leach - Published 2023

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AdventureMilitary

Set around Hadrian’s Wall in 175 CE, The Hollow Throne picks up the story of a Sarmatian formation in the Roman army, and ...Read Review

The Rewards of Treachery (A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain, 20)

By Rosemary Rowe - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Glevum, 198 CE. Since his adoptive father, pavement-maker and amateur investigator Libertus, fled Glevum several years ago, Junio is now called upon to serve ...Read Review

We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky

By Emma Hooper - Published 2022

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Literary

In a villa overlooking a small Portuguese village of lemon farmers, a Roman commandant’s wife goes into labor while he is away ...Read Review

Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome

By Lindsay Powell - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

Part travelogue yet still solid non-fiction history, this is a story about two fascinating personalities and the doomed attempt of one, Bar Kokhba, ...Read Review

An Evil Planned: Murder in the Roman Empire

By Theo Faurez - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Antioch, 100 CE. A young woman is murdered in broad daylight, and her family is withholding secrets from the vigiles. Investigating the murder are ...Read Review

The Iron Way: Volume 2 (The Sarmatian Trilogy)

By Tim Leach - Published 2022

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Military

175 AD Vindolanda, Britannia. Sarmatian warrior Kai has paid for his people’s defeat on the Danube by pledging his arms to Rome. At ...Read Review

Dominus

By Steven Saylor - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

Starting in 165 AD, multiple generations of the legendary Pinarius family of sculptors lead us through 160 years of otherwise rather obscure Roman history. We ...Read Review

The Governor’s Man (A Quintus Valerius Mystery)

By Jacquie Rogers - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

When Roman Imperial Investigator Quintus Valerius is despatched to investigate the suspected theft of silver, mined in the southwest of what is now ...Read Review