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The Temple of Fortuna

The Temple of Fortuna
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD79

The final instalment in Elodie Harper’s Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy A courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall? Amara’s journey has taken her far, from...

Shadows in the Ashes

Shadows in the Ashes
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / AD 79

The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her. She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her. Present Day Finally escaping an abusive marriage,...

The House with the Golden Door

The House with the Golden Door
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre 79AD

Wolf Den Trilogy, Book 2 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...

The Paninis of Pompeii

The Paninis of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Andy Stanton
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The first in a brand new series from the fevered imagination of the award-winning, bestselling author of MR GUM. Welcome to the last days of Pompeii as you’ve NEVER imagined them before! Join fart-trader Caecilius, his wife, Vesuvius, and...

The Pirates of Pompeii

The Pirates of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Children, Adventure
  • Era(s): 79AD

It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl,...

The Wolf Den

The Wolf Den
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early A.D.

An engaging, female-focussed novel set in ancient Pompeii, from an exciting new voice in historical fiction. The streets of Pompeii have a life of their own: the cries of the hawkers, the beauty and dirt of the crowds, the...

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 79

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...

In the Garden of the Fugitives

In the Garden of the Fugitives
  • Author(s): Ceridwen Dovey
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘It has been almost fifteen years. I’ve thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.’ Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past....

The Night Villa

The Night Villa
  • Author(s): Carol Goodman
  • Location(s): Pompeii, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to AD 79

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers...

Footprints in the Ash

Footprints in the Ash
  • Author(s): Stanley Salmons
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 79AD and Modern

On mountain slopes south of Pompeii a group of Roman citizens flees the doomed city, leaving their footprints in a layer of volcanic ash. Two thousand years later the footprints are rediscovered, and a joint Anglo-Italian dig is set...

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