The Burning Road

By Harry Sidebottom,

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In the shadow of Sicily's Mount Etna, a brutal rebellion is about to erupt . . .

The scorching new historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom.

'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman legions: unassailable' - THE TIMES…

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The Roman Empire in third-century CE had always been a rather mysterious place for me. I knew that there was a crisis as the frontiers gave way and the Emperor Valerian was humiliatingly captured by the Persians but the sources for the period were so vague and fragmentary that it was difficult to find out what happened and when. This novel takes one line from the late and unreliable Historia Augusta that mentions a slave revolt on Sicily in 265. The main character and his son arrive on the island just as the insurgency breaks out and before long are…

Caesar’s Soldier

By Alex Gough,

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Who was the man who would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy? 

When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast.

Antony's path to prosperity leads him to an education in Athens, a campaign for a seat in the Senate, and a position of military command. Undeterred by his baptism of fire on the battlefields of Judaea and Egypt, he climbs the ranks to become the right-hand…

Caesar’s Soldier

By Alex Gough,

What is this book about?

Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy?

When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast.

Antony's path to prosperity leads him to an education in Athens, a campaign for a seat in the Senate, and a position of military command. Undeterred by his baptism of fire on the battlefields of Judaea and Egypt, he climbs the ranks to become the right…


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