3rd Century
King of Kings
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship,’ proclaims The Times. As an academic who tries to write historical fiction I am…
King of Kings
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship,’ proclaims The Times. As an academic who tries to write historical fiction I am…
King of Kings
Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius…
Warrior of Rome, Part One: Fire in the East
Editors' choice
Fire in the East is part one of Dr Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series and his first novel.…
Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey
Priestess of the Forest is set in a fictional 3rd-century Ireland when Christianity is sweeping across the Celtic Isles. It…
The Fire Waker
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have…
Dark North
Were there Africans in the Roman Army? The Historia Augusta describes an Ethiopian soldier presenting Emperor Septimius Severus with…
Empire of Dragons
The book begins in Edessa, an outpost of the Eastern Roman Empire in 260 AD. Metellus and his men faithfully…
Perpetua: A Bride, A Martyr, A Passion
In Carthage of the 3rd century AD, Perpetua, the young daughter of a Roman nobleman and scholar, finds Jesus and…
Callista
First published in 1856, Callista is set in 3rd century Roman North Africa and tells the story of three characters…
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