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Series
The Chivalry series follows William Gold from his beginnings as a London cook’s boy in the campaign of 1356 to a career as knight and professional captain. His path leads from Poitiers through the mercenary wars of Italy, crusading expeditions and the rivalries of France, Savoy, Venice, Genoa…
The Long War follows Arimnestos of Plataea from the Ionian Revolt and slavery to the battles that decide the Persian invasions of Greece. Farmer, bronzesmith, hoplite, sailor and captain, he moves through Marathon, Salamis and Plataea while Greek cities struggle to cooperate against the Achaemenid Empire. The sequence…
The Tyrant series is set around the Black Sea during the conquests of Alexander the Great and the wars among his successors. It begins with the Athenian soldier Kineas and the Scythian leader Srayanka, then continues through their children Satyrus and Melitta as Macedonian generals compete to divide…
The second Tom Swan serial sends the merchant, scholar and intelligence agent towards Hungary as Mehmed II prepares to attack Belgrade. The fortress controls a principal route into central Europe, but the states that depend on its survival remain divided by dynastic interests, trade and distrust. Across seven…
The third Tom Swan adventure returns to the networks of collectors, bankers, soldiers and spies that connect Renaissance Italy with England and the Ottoman world. After Belgrade, Swan’s knowledge of classical antiquity is inseparable from the reputation he has acquired as an agent capable of surviving difficult missions.…
The Venetian series follows English swordsman Richard Hughes and Philip de Chambray through the ceremonial splendour and concealed violence of early modern Venice. Opera, Carnevale, diplomacy and intellectual dissent create a public culture of invention while criminal organisations and foreign agents use the city’s masks and waterways for…
The Commanders novels reconstruct the career of Philopoemen, the Achaean statesman and general later remembered as the last great Greek. The New Achilles approaches his rise through Alexanor, a former soldier turned healer at Epidaurus, while The Last Greek follows Philopoemen as he reforms the Achaean League’s army.…
The first Tom Swan serial begins in the closing years of the Hundred Years’ War and follows a young English merchant-scholar into Renaissance Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. Swan seeks manuscripts, relics and classical objects but repeatedly becomes useful to cardinals, merchants and rulers who need an adaptable…
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