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Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa)

Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa)
  • Author(s): Steven Saylor
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century BC

In Roman Blood Gordianus the Finder – the large, eccentric, philosophical investigator whose famed skills and integrity have made him much sought after in Rome – is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused...

Siracusa

Siracusa
  • Author(s): Delia Ephron
  • Location(s): Rome, Syracuse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and...

Two Women in Rome

Two Women in Rome
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two

A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever… Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited to begin her new job as an archivist. When she discovers a...

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

A Gladiator Dies Only Once
  • Author(s): Steven Saylor
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): BC

This is 11 in Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic (BC), featuring Gordianus the Finder. High calibre writing, and wonderfully illuminating descriptions of the ancient world.

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

Birthright

Birthright
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...

Dictator

Dictator
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 58-43 BC

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...

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
  • Author(s): Tom Holland
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 100BC to 100AD

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to...

Early One Morning

Early One Morning
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 into second half 20th Century

A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the...

She Seduced Me : A Love Affair with Rome

She Seduced Me : A Love Affair with Rome
  • Author(s): Mark Tedesco
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present and Ancient Rome

“I resisted, but she drew me back. I stayed away, but she beckoned me. I distanced myself, but she haunted me. I even rejected her but she did not abandon me…” She Seduced Me is that rare book in...

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