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Dark North

by Gillian Bradshaw

First published 2007

2.5(5)

In 208 CE, Emperor Septimius Severus arrives in Britain with his sons and an immense Roman force determined to break resistance north of Hadrian’s Wall. Memnon, an African cavalry scout serving with the army, is pulled into the imperial household after rescuing a young attendant of Empress Julia Domna.

Campaigning in Caledonia exposes the soldiers to a landscape and style of warfare that frustrate Roman expectations, while the rivalry between Caracalla and Geta makes the emperor’s family almost as dangerous as the enemy. Bradshaw brings together frontier warfare, racial and cultural displacement and Severan dynastic politics as Memnon and his companions try to survive both.

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