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5 January 2023
Simon Turney - Bellatrix (hardcover & kindle)
The sequel to The Capsarius. Egypt, 25 BC. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion. Formed from the personal guard of a conquered king, the Twenty Second's ways are strange to soldiers of the Empire - yet the legion has proved itself in the blistering heat of the desert.
Cervianus and his comrades march into the unknown as he and the Twenty Second Legion contend with the armies of the Bellatrix: the Warrior Queen of Kush. The Kushites and the Egyptians are united against the Roman presence in their lands – but there are complex political and military forces at work. Deep in the deserts, Cervianus and his comrades must brace themselves for a furious onslaught as they take on the might of the Bellatrix.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 5 January 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1801108966 Pages: 416 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 5 January 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
27 January 2023
Nick Brown - Tarchon: Agent of Rome (kindle edition)
The 8th book in Nick's Agent of Rome series. Byzantium, 249 AD. Tarchon has nothing. His mother is dead, his father is absent, and he spends his days doing odd jobs – and the odd crime – on the tough streets of Byzantium. But when an attempted robbery lands him in prison, he is approached by an organisation looking for resourceful, ambitious, young operatives. The rise of the Gothic King Cniva threatens the eastern Roman Empire and the Imperial Security Service is thinly stretched. Drawn by the promise of money, status and adventure, Tarchon sets out to prove himself and is tasked with increasingly difficult challenges. He is then sent north on his most crucial mission yet; only a successful outcome will earn him the coveted title, Agent of Rome.
Paperback:
Publication date: 27 January 2023Publisher: Nick Brown ISBN: tbc Pages: tbc |
Kindle:
Publication date: 27 January 2023 Publisher: Nick Brown |
16 February 2023
Anthony Riches - Storm of War (hardcover, paperback and kindle editions)
The 13th book in the Empire series. A new civil war has begun: with the emperor Pertinax's murder Marcus and his protector Scaurus have escaped Rome, seeking sanctuary for their familia in the East. But they are soon pressed back into service by Septimius Severus, the ruthless commander who has seized the imperial capital and who holds the military balance of power over his two rivals. Niger, the would-be emperor in the East is on the march with six legions, and Scaurus's legion is ordered to Thrace as a sacrificial advance guard, tasked with delaying them. Whatever the cost...
Hardcover:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 978-1399701426 Pages: 320 |
Paperback:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 978-1399701433 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton |
16 February 2023
Gordon Doherty - The Emperor's Shield (hardcover, paperback and kindle editions)
The 9th book in the Legionary series. Easier to split the sky, than part a soldier from his blade.
386 AD. The Eastern Roman Empire faces a trident of threats. The Gothic truce grows unstable. The standoff with Persia escalates. And the ambitions of the usurper on the Western throne grow dangerously unchecked. Pavo, a broken veteran of the legions, cares for none of these things. His life is one of pastoral seclusion on his Thracian farm. A life of love, of peace. His wife and young son are his world. Still, every so often, things seen and done in his old life haunt him, like a cold and unwelcome breeze. But that is all they are, echoes of the past…
…until the past rises, like a shade, to rip his world and the Roman Empire apart.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Gordon Doherty ISBN: tbc Pages: tbc |
Paperback:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Gordon Doherty ISBN: tbc Pages: tbc |
Kindle:
Publication date: 16 February 2023 Publisher: Gordon Doherty |
4 April 2023
Rosemary Rowe - Rewards of Treachery (hardcover and kindle editions)
The 20th book in the Libertus Mysteries series. A stolen valuable is just the beginning of a trail of strange events Junio has to uncover in this skilfully plotted historical mystery set in 2nd century Britain. Late summer, CE 198. With Glevum an uneasy place since the current Emperor seized power, and with rebel Celts still actively opposing Roman rule, tension remains as Caesar turns his attention to stamping out all remaining threats to his authority. Junio, Libertus's adopted son, tries to be inconspicuous and focus on his workshop and growing family. This becomes difficult when Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, seeks Junio's advice about a valuable cloak-clasp which has disappeared - together with the jeweller who was repairing it.
Unwillingly dragged into investigating this, Junio finds himself faced with a string of murders, betrayal and revenge, and his own small son in dreadful jeopardy! What secret was the missing jeweller hiding? What danger lurks in the ill-omened cave? And what part does the mysterious Celtic visitor who suddenly appears play in this tale of treachery?
Hardcover:
Publication date: 4 April 2023Publisher: Severn House ISBN: 978-1448308330 Pages: 240 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 4 April 2023 Publisher: Severn House |
6 April 2023
Lindsey Davis - Fatal Legacy (hardcover and kindle editions)
The 11th book in the Flavia Alba series. An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a family he was friendly with, on the condition that his freedmen could still take its harvest. The convoluted arrangement has led to a feud between the two families, each of which has its own internal strife. Endless claims and counterclaims lead to violence and even death. Lawyers have given up in exasperation as the case limps on. The original will has disappeared, along with a falsified codicil - and might there be another one?
But is there a solution? Two youngsters from each side of the divide, Gaius Venuleius and Cosca Sabatina, have fallen in love, which could unite the feuding families. There is only one problem: were Sabatina's grandmother and father really liberated in the Surus will? If not, the stigma of slavery will stop the marriage and the dispute will rage on forever. Reconciliation seems impossible, but Albia will try. Her investigation must cut through decades of secrets, arguments, lies and violence to reach a startling truth.
Hardcover:
Publication date: 6 April 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 978-1529354737 Pages: 416 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 6 April 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton |
20 April 2023
Amanda Cockrell writing as Damion Hunter - Empire's Edge (paperback and kindle editions)
The 2nd book in the Borderlands series. Centurion Faustus Valerianus marched with Julius Agricola on his six-year campaign to conquer the north of Britain. With Agricola now returned to Rome, Faustus is sent to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar to reclaim his throne, to crown a new king. But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia fears grow that the land won so convincingly may soon slip away. Both here, and across the narrow sea, Rome’s control and influence are at greater risk than ever before. As events cascade towards a climactic, devastating battle, Faustus must finally come to terms with his heritage, resolve his complica
Paperback:
Publication date: 20 April 2023Publisher: Canelo ISBN: 978-1800326699 Pages: n/k |
Kindle:
Publication date: 20 April 2023 Publisher: Canelo |
8 June 2023
Adrian Goldsworthy - The Wall (hardcover and kindle editions)
The final book in the City of Victory trilogy. Britannia, AD 117: Roman centurion Flavius Ferox is trying to live a quiet life of dignified leisure, overseeing his wife's estate and doing his best to resist the urge to murder an annoying neighbour - until someone else does it for him. Dragged back into a life of violence, Ferox finds himself chasing raiders, fighting chieftains and negotiating with kings, journeying far into the north just as war breaks out.
With the new emperor, Hadrian, sending agents from Rome, the whole world seems to be changing: old friends become enemies, enemies claim they are friends, and new and deadly threats lurk in the shadows. When, five years later, Hadrian himself comes to Britannia to inspect his great wall, a new war erupts suddenly, dividing tribes and families. Ferox is the only one who can save the emperor - but with his family, and his own life, in danger, Ferox must first decide whose side he is on...
Hardcover:
Publication date: 8 June 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1789545821 Pages: 464 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 8 June 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
6 July 2023
Simon Turney - Para Bellum (hardcover and kindle editions)
AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the deaths of a Gothic king and his attendants at a feast in their honour. This disastrous act led to warfare in the Roman Empire and the death of the Emperor Valens. Now, the Empire is calm once more, but for the eight legionaries who committed the killings, the bloodshed is only just beginning. Fritigern, brother of the murdered king, has sworn revenge on his brother's killers. Now king of a powerful Gothic tribe, he will not rest until the men are hunted down.
Flavius Focalis is one of those legionaries. Surviving an attack at his villa, he realises the danger he and his family are in, and seeks to warn his former comrades, for he knows Fritigern will give them no quarter. So begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse across the Empire, as, by land and sea, the former soldiers face the wrath of their implacable enemy, and return to the scene of the greatest battle of their age: Adrianople. For war is coming again - and the only question is, do they die now, or die later?
Hardcover:
Publication date: 6 July 2023Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1804540312 Pages: 432 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 6 July 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
3 August 2023
Tim Leach - Hollow Throne (hardcover and kindle editions)
The final book in the Sarmatian trilogy. 180 AD. North of the Wall, Sarmatian warrior Kai and his adopted tribe, the Votadini, struggle for survival, cast into unfamiliar lands by Roman reprisals. When news arrives that an old enemy is in charge of the Votadini's hated foes, a confederation of tribes known as the Painted People, and has roused them to action, Kai heads south towards the Wall, hoping to ally with the Romans against this resurgent threat. Meanwhile, the Romans have heard tales of butchery and mayhem beyond the Wall. Lucius, Legate of the North, believes is is Kai and his allies who are responsible, and sends forth an expedition to capture his old comrade.
Can Kai and his loved ones survive the onslaught - or will the combined might of Rome and the hatred of their enemies spell the end for the warrior and his tribe?
Hardcover:
Publication date: 3 August 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1800242920 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 3 August 2023Publisher: Head of Zeus |
23 November 2023
Elodie Harper - The Temple of Fortuna (paperback edition)
The final book in the Wolf Dentrilogy. Amara's journey has taken her far; from a slave in Pompeii's wolf den to a high-powered courtesan in Rome... though her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii. But it is AD 79, and mighty Mount Vesuvius is about to make itself known...
Hardcover:
Publication date: 23 November 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus ISBN: 978-1838933616 Pages: 400 |
Kindle:
Publication date: 23 November 2023 Publisher: Head of Zeus |
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