Have we missed any? Let us know in the comments below and we'll include them. The thumbnail images of the covers below will take you to the Amazon page. The descriptions do include some mild spoilers for earlier books in series.
February 2022
Simon Turney & Gordon Doherty - Masters of Rome (paperback edition)
The second book in Rise of Emperors trilogy. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion and personal tragedy, threatened by barbarian forces and enemies within.
Paperback:
Publication date: 3 February 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1800242050 Pages: 416 |
March 2022
Debra May MacLeod - Empire of Iron (hardcover edition)
The third book in The Vesta Shadows trilogy. The Vesta Shadows trilogy spans decades, from 45 BCE to 14 CE. It follows the life of the Vestal priestess Pomponia Occia, who is inspired by the real Vestal Occia who lived during this time, serving in the Temple of Vesta for more than fifty years. Set during the tumultuous years that saw the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire under Augustus and beyond, it dramatises some of the major historical events that occurred during her lifetime while simultaneously bringing ancient Rome to life with fast-paced, engrossing, and visceral storylines played out by a striking cast of characters.
Empire of Iron is also out in paperback in April this year.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 29 March 2022Publisher: Blackstone ISBN: 978-1094000305 Pages: 336 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 7 April 2022Publisher: Canelo ISBN: 978-1800326804 Pages: 320 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 7 April 2022 Publisher: Canelo |
Rosemary Rowe - A Dreadful Destiny (paperback edition)
The 19th book in A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain series. April AD194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . . with Hortius in hot pursuit.
Paperback:
Publication date: 31 March 2022 Publisher: Severn House ISBN: 978-1780298177 Pages: 240 |
Harry Sidebottom - The Burning Road (paperback edition)
AD265. In the shadow of Mount Etna, slaves are rising up. As the rebel leader declares Sicily the new land of the free, men and women are slaughtered, and cities across the island are sacked and burned. When a ship is wrecked off the island's west coast, all but two survivors are cut down in the surf by the rebel slaves. Ballista, an experienced Roman soldier, has always found a way to survive against the odds - but his son Marcus is still just a boy. With the burning road stretching out ahead of them, father and son must cross the war-ravaged island in a race against time to save the rest of his family, and somehow find a way to extinguish the brutal rebellion, before it all goes up in flames.
Paperback:
Publication date: 31 March 2022 Publisher: Zaffre ISBN: 978-1785769696 Pages: 400 |
April 2022
Lindsey Davis - Desperate Undertaking (hardcover edition)
The 10th book in the Flavia Albia series. Rome, the very end of December. The Field of Mars is packed with monuments, none more beautiful than Domitian's new Odeon and Stadium. But the area has been overtaken by ugly events: elaborately staged murders. Someone bears a spectacular grudge against the theatrical community, and intends to get revenge in the most spectacular way possible. The killer's method is to re-enact bloody scenes from the gruesome side of popular theatre, where characters in plays really die on stage.
The paperback edition is out in October 2022.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 7 April 2022Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 978-1529354683 Pages: 416 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 13 October 2022 Publisher: Hodder ISBN: 978-1529354720 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 7 April 2022 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton |
Simon Turney - Capsarius (hardcover edition)
The first book in the Legion XXII series. Egypt 25BC. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. A former surgeon from the city of Ancyra, he's now a capsarius – a combat medic. Cervianus is a pragmatist, a scientist, and truly unpopular with his legion. The Twenty Second Deiotariana have been sent to deal with uprisings and chaos in Egypt. Yet the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion either. Founded as the private royal army of one of Rome's most devoted allies, the king of Galatia, their ways are not the same as the other legions, a factor that sets them apart and causes friction with their fellow soldiers. Marching into the unknown, Cervianus will find unexpected allies in a local cavalryman and a troublesome lunatic. Both will be of critical importance as the young medic marches into the searing sands of the south, finding forbidden temples, dark assassins, vicious crocodiles, and worst of all, the warrior queen of Kush.
The paperback edition is published in October 2022.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 14 April 2022Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1801108928 Pages: 432 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 10 October 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1801108942 Pages: 432 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 14 April 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
Simon Scarrow - The Honour of Rome (paperback edition)
Book 20 in the Eagles of the Empire series. 59AD. Fifteen years after he fought Britannia's barbarians during the Roman invasion, Centurion Macro is back. The province is tense. There is restlessness amongst the tribes that have supposedly accepted Roman rule, while the atmosphere in Londinium is menacing. Newly discharged from the army, Macro is missing the camaraderie and drama of battle. But soon he will need all his courage and skills to survive. Gangs of thugs run the city. When Macro resists, a brutal attack serves as punishment and warning. But the mobsters have made a deadly error. Britannia's veterans stand with their own. And Macro will soon have a powerful ally: Prefect Cato. Friends who have battled across the Empire together, Macro and Cato make a formidable team. They will fight to the death to protect the honour of Rome.
Paperback:
Publication date: 14 April 2022 Publisher: Headline ISBN: 978-1472258502 Pages: 448 |
May 2022
Elodie Harper - The House with the Golden Door (hardcover edition)
The second book in the Wolf Den trilogy. The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious. Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town's most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind and worse, finds herself pursued by the man who once owned her. In order to be free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is. Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all.
The paperback edition is published in September 2022.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 12 May 2022Publisher: Apollo ISBN: 978-1838933579 Pages: 400 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 1 September 2022 Publisher: Apollo ISBN: 978-1838933593 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 12 May 2022 Publisher: Apollo |
Tim Leach - A Winter War (paperback edition)
The first book in the Sarmatian trilogy. AD173. The Danube has frozen. On its far banks gather the clans of Sarmatia. Winter-starved, life ebbing away on a barren plain of ice and snow, to survive they must cross the river's frozen waters. There's just one thing in their way. Petty feuds have been cast aside, six thousand heavy cavalry marshalled. Will it be enough? For across the ice lies the Roman Empire, and deployed in front of them, one of its legions. The Sarmatians are proud, cast as if from the ice itself. After decades of warfare they are the only tribe still fighting the Romans. They have broken legions in battle before. They will do so again. They charge. Sarmatian warrior Kai awakes on a bloodied battlefield, his only company the dead. The disgrace of his defeat compounded by his survival, Kai must now navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Empire, for Rome hasn't finished with Kai or the Sarmatians yet.
Paperback:
Publication date: 12 May 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1800242883 Pages: 384 |
Steven Pressfield - A Man at Arms (paperback edition)
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted. In his first novel of the ancient world in thirteen years, the best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War returns with a gripping saga of conquest and rebellion, bloodshed and faith.
Paperback:
Publication date: 13 May 2022 Publisher: WW Norton ISBN: 978-0393882391 Pages: 336 |
Anthony Riches - Vengeance (paperback edition)
Book 12 in the Empire series. After saving the Empire's richest province from a foreign army, Marcus and the men who protect him have been in hiding. Their lives will be forfeit if they are seen in Rome. But times have changed. Marcus's protector, the patrician legion commander Scaurus, has been summoned home by his mentor, a powerful senator who has decided he must act to save the empire from its debauched ruler's reign of terror. Rome is a hotbed of conspiracy and treachery: and the senator is not the only contender for power. The emperor himself plans to destroy those he mistrusts and no-one is safe. Marcus is assigned his own, unique role in the conspiracy. He will become a gladiator once more. But this time, his only opponent will be Commodus himself .
Paperback:
Publication date: 26 May 2022 Publisher: Hodder ISBN: 978-1473628915 Pages: 336 |
Damion Hunter (Amanda Cockrell) - Shadow of the Eagle (hardcover edition)
Will Britain take him in or mark him as its enemy? Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius’s invasion. Now both parents have died within a month of each other, and so he sells the family farm and enlists, joining legendary general Agricola’s campaign to conquer the entirety of the British Isles culminating in a devastating battle amongst Caledonia's dark mountains. But Faustus will have to contend with more than ferocious British warriors and whip-cracking elements. For the bonds of blood can weigh heavy on one’s soul. The call of his mother’s true people. His father’s restless shadow. Faustus must carry them with him.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 26 May 2022 Publisher: Canelo ISBN: 978-1800326675 Pages: n/k |
Kindle:
Publication date: 26 May 2022 Publisher: Canelo |
June 2022
Douglas Jackson - The Wall (hardcover edition)
AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing. Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian's Wall. Through a combination of military prowess, brutality and bribery, Marcus has spent twenty years keeping the savage Picts at bay. Feared by his enemies and hated by his superiors, his strength of will is the only thing that has held the disgruntled, poorly paid garrisons of the Wall in place as the failing Roman Empire's grip on Britannia weakened. Yet as this tour of the wall progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that this is more than a routine inspection. Why is Marcus stripping the defences of cavalry to strengthen his own force? Is he negotiating with the Picts - or conspiring with them? And who is the mysterious figure who follows Marcus' every move and yet hides in the shadows? Segeduno, Cilurno, Brocolitia, Vindolanda: each fort holds memories and friendships, hides rivals, or conceals enemies. But what exactly is Marcus Flavius Victor's ultimate objective? It would appear he is willing to risk bloody civil war in a bid to seize Britannia for himself? Or is he raising an army to save the province from the darkness that waits on the other side of the Wall?
The paperback edition is due to be published in April next year.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 2 June 2022Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 978-1787634848 Pages: 400 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 27 April 2023 Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 978-0552178235 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 2 June 2022 Publisher: Transworld Digital |
Simon Turney & Gordon Doherty - Gods of Rome (paperback edition)
The third book in the Rise of Emperors trilogy. AD 312, a year of horrific and brutal warfare. Although outnumbered, Constantine's legions seem unstoppable as they surge through Maxentius' Italian heartlands. Constantine is determined to reach and seize the ancient capital of Rome from his rival, yet his army is exhausted, plagued by religious rivalries and on the verge of revolt. Maxentius meanwhile contends with a restive and dissenting Roman populace. Neither general can risk a prolonged war. When the two forces clash amidst portents and omens in a battle that will shape history, there are factors at work beyond their control. Only one thing is certain: Constantine and Maxentius' rivalry must end. With one on a bloodied sword and the other the sole ruler of an Empire.
Paperback:
Publication date: 9 June 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1800242081 Pages: 464 |
Steven Saylor - Dominus (paperback edition)
The third book in the Rome trilogy. AD 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Pax Roma reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Emperor Marcus Aurelius oversees a golden age and the ancient Pinarius family of artisans embellish the greatest city on Earth with gilded statues and towering marble monuments. But history does not stand still. The years to come bring wars, plagues, fires, and famines. The best emperors in history are succeeded by some of the worst. Barbarians descend, eventually appearing before the gates of Rome itself. Chaos engulfs the empire. Through it all, the Pinarius family endures, thanks in no small part to the fascinum, a protective talisman older than Rome itself, handed down through countless generations. But on the fringes of society, a band of troublesome cultists disseminate dangerous and seditious ideas. They call themselves Christians. Some emperors deal with the Christians with toleration, others with bloody persecution. Then one emperor does the unthinkable. He becomes a Christian himself and the revolution he sets in motion will change the world forever. Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome's most vivid figures, Saylor's epic brings to vivid life some of the most tumultuous chapters of human history, events which reverberate still.
Paperback:
Publication date: 30 June 2022 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1800242081 Pages: 640 |
August 2022
Tim Leach - The Iron Way (hardcover edition)
The second book in the Sarmatian trilogy and follow up to A Winter War which we loved. Cast to the edge of the Empire, the Sarmatian army must fight in defence of Rome in the second of a new trilogy set in the second century AD, from the author of Smile of the Wolf. In the hard, unforgiving land at the northernmost point of the Roman Empire lies a great wall. Once, the edge had been but a thing of thought and dreams, but one day the great Emperor from across the water had grown tired of borders made from thoughts and dreams. So, a wall was raised from the earth at his command. From afar, it looked invincible. Yet every wall has its weaknesses – if one looks close enough. In its shadow, gather five thousand fearsome soldiers. Men bred to fight and kill. The Sarmatians have suffered capture and defeat, but under a new command they are prepared to fight again. For of the other side of the wall there are rumours. Of men closer to giants, of warriors who fight without fear or restraint. And the Sarmatians are called to defend against them. To stand and fight, to die for Rome.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 4 August 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1800242890 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 4 August 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
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