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Legionary: Gods & Emperors (Legionary 5)

Legionary: Gods & Emperors (Legionary 5)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war… 378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens...

Legionary: Land of the Sacred Fire (Legionary 3)

Legionary: Land of the Sacred Fire (Legionary 3)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Syria, Iran, Iraq, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier . . . 377 AD: Emperor Valens has stripped the Persian frontier...

Legionary: The Blood Road (Legionary 7)

Legionary: The Blood Road (Legionary 7)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome 381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor’s name will be written in blood… The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire...

Legionary: The Emperor’s Shield

Legionary: The Emperor’s Shield
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Roman Empire

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...

Legionary: The Scourge of Thracia (Legionary 4)

Legionary: The Scourge of Thracia (Legionary 4)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Serbia, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The legions are in tatters, and the Gothic hordes are gathering beyond the mountains . . . 377 AD: Thracia’s legions are few and broken in the...

Legionary: Viper of the North (Legionary 2)

Legionary: Viper of the North (Legionary 2)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Greece, Istanbul (Constantinople), Romania, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The Danubian frontier is weaker than ever, and a storm is gathering in the north . . . Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the...

Leica Format

Leica Format
  • Author(s): Dasa Drndic (Daša Drndić)
  • Location(s): Balkans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A woman meets a stranger who tells her her identity is a lie. 772 (or 789) children’s brains rest silently in jars. A traveller comes to a quotidian city, unknowingly approaching her past. From the author of Trieste (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign...

Lemon Seas

Lemon Seas
  • Author(s): Neil Beardmore
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Goa: this was the break Rich had waited for, what with a broken marriage and his mother’s death. At last he could breathe again on a beach lined with palm trees. The discovery of the body of an Indian...

Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Les Miserables

Les Miserables
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

‘He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601’ Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become...

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