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Britannia

4 books in this series

The Britannia novels follow four Roman soldiers and the people around them as imperial authority in Britain begins to fracture during the late fourth century. Starting with the Great Conspiracy of 367, Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius and Vitalis are drawn from frontier service into invasions, military revolt and political struggles that expose how dependent Roman Britain has become on an increasingly unstable imperial system.

The sequence moves from the assault on Hadrian’s Wall through the usurpation of Magnus Maximus and towards the final withdrawal of effective Roman rule. Rather than treating the end of Roman Britain as a single event, the novels emphasise the cumulative effects of military shortages, rival emperors, local ambition and repeated attacks. World of Britannia accompanies the trilogy with a non-fiction account of the historical and archaeological background to this transformation.

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Books in this series (4 books)

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1. The Wall

First published 2014

3.8(1,204)

The story opens in 367 AD. Four soldiers - Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius and Vitalis - are out hunting for food supplies at an outpost of Hadrian's Wall, when the Wall comes under attack. The four find their fort destroyed, their comrades killed, and Paternus is unable…

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2. The Watchmen

First published 2014

3.9(439)

‘We are the watchmen; the keepers of the flame.’ Britannia in the late fourth century is a wild, dark place and the Pax Romana that has held for three hundred years is crumbling. Justinus Coelius is commander of the Wall and he is facing invasion from…

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3. The Warlords

First published 2016

4.3(302)

The death throes of Rome are resounding in every corner of the Empire. The rebellion of Magnus Maximus has come to a bloody end and Britannia now knows only suffering, standing at the edge of calamity, with each new disaster shaking the fragile foundations of a…

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4. World of Britannia

First published 2016

3.7(26)

forms the historical background to the Britannia trilogy. The arrival of Rome’s legions, first under Julius Caesar, then Aulius Plautius in the first century is well documented, but the end of Roman rule in Britain remains forever in shadow, ‘illuminated’ only by contradiction and legend. The…

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