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Current Roman novels:
1. Pompeii
A sweltering week in late August; where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried. The engineer, Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct which brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now, there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line - somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius - decent, practical, incorruptible - promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But, as he heads out towards Vesuvius, he is about to discover there are forces which even the world's only superpower can't control.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2009 Publisher: Arrow ISBN: 978-0099527947 Pages: 416 Availability and latest price on Amazon:  |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2003 Publisher: Hutchinson ISBN: 9780091779252 Pages: 352 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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2. Imperium (Cicero series: book 1 of 3)
Ancient Rome. 70 BC. The height of the Republic. A city rippling with power - and with no shortage of men who'd do anything to wield it...
When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the poor to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state despite his low birth and implacable opposition from the republic's elites. This case will be his way in.
Imperium takes us into the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, and the quest of one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable, and above all Roman - to reach the top.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2009 Publisher: Arrow ISBN: 978-0099527664 Pages: 496 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2006 Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 978-0099527664 Pages: 416 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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3. Lustrum (Cicero series: book 2 of 3)
Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in.
There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero’s life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles.
One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.
From the discovery of a child's mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.
Paperback:
Latest edition: 2010
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 978-0099406327
Pages: 452
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Hardcover:
Latest edition: 2009
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN: 978-0091801007
Pages: 464
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4. Dictator (Cicero series: book 3 of 3)
His comeback requires wit, skill and courage – and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static and no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.
Paperback:
Latest edition: 2016
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 978-0099515074
Pages: 544
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Hardcover:
Latest edition: 2015
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN: 978-0091752101
Pages: 464
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File size: 6695kb
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5. The Cicero Trilogy
The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.
More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.
Hardcover:
Latest edition: 2021
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN: 978-1786332929
Pages: 992
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Kindle:
Latest edition: 2021
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
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