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1) Boudicca
Author
Series
Publisher
Wayland
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This biography tells the story of Boudicca, from her becoming the Queen of the Iceni tribe on the death of her husband, to her great battle against the Roman Army. Thousands were killed in these bloody rebellions, and Boudicca was finally defeated by the Roman Army led by the Roman governor, Paulinus. Through the story of Boudicca and her rebellion, readers learn about the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Ent
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Denzel Washington stars in the eponymous role of this legal drama directed by Dan Gilroy. Lawyer Roman J. Israel has spent years of his life working hard to fight for justice at his small law firm in Los Angeles. When his partner has a heart attack Roman is forced to take the reigns of the firm and, in doing so, discovers secrets that his partner had kept from him including the fact that the firm is bankrupt. As he looks for a new job, Roman finds...
Author
Publisher
Phoenix
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Romans have long been held up as one of the first 'civilised' societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimes the victims) of some imaginative murders. This book will include some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields, i.e. death.
Author
Series
Boudica volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilization and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire. Gloriously imagined, Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived...
5) The exiled
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
As addictive as Game of Thrones, and perfect for fans of Robert Harris' Cicero trilogy, The Exiled is a stunning novel of power, treachery and ambition. A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an alliance from an unlikely source: a man claiming to be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor. Meanwhile, young Gaius wishes he could spend his summer on the Bay of Naples amongst his books. Instead...
6) Just a girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Who was Mary of Nazareth, the most famous woman in all of history? In 72 AD, as the Roman army pillages Judea and destroys their village, killing and enslaving its inhabitants, fourteen-year-old Judith hides with her younger sister, her great-grandmother Rabba and an unwilling goat in a storage cave used for storage. Judith is 'just a girl', but her skills will save them - and help escaped Roman slave Caius survive as well. Wolves - and humans - threaten...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
1081. And so the bloody battle for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire begins. In Constantinople, three factions will go to any length - will kill any number - to seize the throne. Outside the city's walls, twin powers threaten a siege that will crush the once-mighty empire forever. To the west, the bloody forces of the most feared Norman warlord are gathering. In the east, the Ottoman hordes are massing and lust for slaughter. And in the middle of...
8) Cell 7
Author
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A world where justice and the fate of those accused of murder is decided by the public, but has moved on from the Roman Gladiator 'thumbs up or thumbs down' public vote, to a public vote by telephone. If you are voted innocent you are set free; if you are voted guilty you are committed to death by electric chair. Those awaiting their sentence reside in ever decreasing cells, getting smaller each day, until Day 7 and Cell 7, where they hear their fate....
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 2
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, must set off on the second of his harrowing (and hilarious) trials. He and his companions seek the ancient oracles - restoring them is the only way for Apollo to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus - but this is easier said than done. Somewhere in the American Midwest is a haunted cave that may hold answers for Apollo in his quest to become a god again...
10) Brigantia
Author
Series
Vindolanda volume 3
Publisher
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia's frontier with the barbarian tribes of the north. Now he's been summoned to Londinium by the governor, but before he sets out an imperial freedman is found brutally murdered in a latrine at Vindolanda fort - and Ferox must find the killer. As he follows the trail, the murder leads him to plots against the empire and Rome itself, and an old foe gathering mysterious...
11) The sellout
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there...
Author
Publisher
HarperLegend
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The fates of two wise men from the same village living in different time periods are connected by one mythical creature-and forces they cannot control-in this compelling supernatural tale that imaginatively retells the historical legend of the Wolf of Allendale. In a Druid village in Northumberland, England, Bran, the village leader, must face two dangerous opponents: an otherworldly animal and formidable invaders from the south. Two thousand years...
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