Hadley Rille
The Gryphon at Bay
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1489: Hugh, the Second Lord Montgomerie, has just lost his father and is now given substantial power as a member of the Privy Council, ...Read Review
A Villa Far from Rome
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AD 66: the Romans have conquered much of Britain, and the tribes live uncomfortably beside a powerful military force. Insurrections still occur, but some ...Read Review
Bad Bishop
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1120 AD: A political chess game is begun when the Duke of Dijon is found murdered. Quickly, alliances are forged as the threat of ...Read Review
Three Great Lies
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Three Great Lies starts in modern Egypt, with a tourist named Jeannette enticed to a newly uncovered tomb. Once there, she tumbles through ...Read Review
She Wrote on Clay
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She Wrote on Clay depicts daily life in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar with great detail and scholarly research. I enjoyed Graetz’...Read Review
Fire and Sword
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In June 1488 two Scottish armies meet at Sauchieburn. The Sempills of Ellestoun fight for their king, but lose to the king’s son’...Read Review
Like Mayflies in a Stream
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Roberts retells ancient Mesopotamia’s Epic of Gilgamesh, the world’s first written tale. Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, oppresses his people until ...Read Review
The Priestess and the Slave
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The stories of Thrasulla, one of Delphi’s sibyls in 491 BC, and of Harmonia, a slave in a household in Athens in 430 BC, ...Read Review
