Martin Bourne

Agent of Rome: The Siege

By Nick Brown - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

Its eastern provinces are being gobbled up by the aggressive (and suspiciously Arabesque) Palmyrans, and the Roman Empire, shown as rather decadent, seems ...Read Review

The Beauty Chorus

By Kate Lord Brown - Published 2011

Genres:

Saga

The title is a slang term for the female volunteers of the ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) who in World War II moved aircraft ...Read Review

Roman Games

By Bruce Macbain - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Often the suspect in Roman mystery novels is a slave, so the detective must work to prove someone else did it, or the ...Read Review

The Wrong Miss Richmond

By Sandra Wilson - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

Henry Richmond is a crusty patriarch widower with two daughters by separate marriages. He has brought the family to Bath to take the ...Read Review

Shadow Country

By Peter Matthiessen - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Originally written as one enormous 1500‑page novel, Shadow Country was released as three separate volumes in the 1990s. This version is a rewrite. ...Read Review

Girl on the Orlop Deck

By Beryl Kingston - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureRomance

Marianne Morris is a plain girl from a solid upper-working class family in Plymouth at the start of the 19th century. Unexpectedly she ...Read Review

Alamein

By Iain Gale - Published 2010

Genres:

Military

Alamein is a novel based on the famous battle in 1942, often (if inaccurately) called the turning-point of World War II. We follow the ...Read Review

The Pirate Devlin

By Mark Keating - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureNautical

After the success of Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels, walking the plank, pieces of eight and buried treasure are once again ...Read Review

Sure and Certain Death: A Francis Hancock Mystery

By Barbara Nadel - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Francis Hancock is a middle-aged, half-English, half-Indian undertaker whose London “manor” is being systematically dismantled by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in World War Two. ...Read Review

Empire: Wounds of Honour

By Anthony Riches - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Marcus Valerius is a young Roman aristocrat whose family is judicially murdered on a trumped-up treason charge. Keeping just ahead of the Emperor’...Read Review