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By the mid-4th-century Rome's glory days were over. On the far north-western edge of its Empire the small island of Britannia survived - just. Its capital: London, was still a vibrant city and Lucius Fabius Quintilianus (Director of the Treasury) lived there in modest affluence, with his two young orphaned wards: Julia, and Marcus Flavius Acquila. This is their story: a story of growing love and respect between the three, as the careless children make London their dangerous playground, and of barbaric violence and cruelty as the authority of Rome weakens - and 16-year-old Marcus is 'sent for a soldier', to fight in circumstances that raise the hairs from the reader's head. But when their benefactor, Uncle Lucius, is threatened, both Marcus and Julia face their most testing challenge of all. This brilliantly-written epic of the years just before the Dark Ages closed in carries the reader into a world of high culture and brutish savagery which might be faraway in time but in the sure hands of William Napier is as real as today. The author expertly combines ancient history with a contemporary literary style that makes for easy reading without ever losing its sense of period or concealing his obvious erudition. Some of the battles are hard to take, but without them the story would lose much of its considerable impact. (Kirkus UK)
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A haunting work of historical fiction set amid the turmoil of the last days of the Roman Empire. From the blood-stained desert sands of Mesopotamia, to the barbaric wilderness and the dreaded painted tribesmen of northern Scotland, to the streets, courtyards and treacherous palaces of a small provincial capital called Londinium, this is the story of Marcus and Julia: two young lovers trying desperately to stay alive and find each other in the twilight days of the greatest Empire the world has ever known.
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By the mid-4th-century Rome's glory days were over. On the far north-western edge of its Empire the small island of Britannia survived - just. Its capital: London, was still a vibrant city and Lucius Fabius Quintilianus (Director of the Treasury) lived there in modest affluence, with his two young orphaned wards: Julia, and Marcus Flavius Acquila. This is their story: a story of growing love and respect between the three, as the careless children make London their dangerous playground, and of barbaric violence and cruelty as the authority of Rome weakens - and 16-year-old Marcus is 'sent for a soldier', to fight in circumstances that raise the hairs from the reader's head. But when their benefactor, Uncle Lucius, is threatened, both Marcus and Julia face their most testing challenge of all. This brilliantly-written epic of the years just before the Dark Ages closed in carries the reader into a world of high culture and brutish savagery which might be faraway in time but in the sure hands of William Napier is as real as today. The author expertly combines ancient history with a contemporary literary style that makes for easy reading without ever losing its sense of period or concealing his obvious erudition. Some of the battles are hard to take, but without them the story would lose much of its considerable impact. (Kirkus UK)
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A haunting work of historical fiction set amid the turmoil of the last days of the Roman Empire. From the blood-stained desert sands of Mesopotamia, to the barbaric wilderness and the dreaded painted tribesmen of northern Scotland, to the streets, courtyards and treacherous palaces of a small provincial capital called Londinium, this is the story of Marcus and Julia: two young lovers trying desperately to stay alive and find each other in the twilight days of the greatest Empire the world has ever known.
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