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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...

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...

Pompeii

Pompeii
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century

A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome’s richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous...

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
  • Author(s): Mary Beard
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 79AD and Modern

Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought: the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs: and the legendary number of...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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