Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-33660-4
If the Roman Empire had taken as long to rise and fall as this novel takes to discover a main character and a plot, most of the world would still be wearing togas today. The story, such as it is, revolves around two boys: Gaius, the broody son of a...
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Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-33662-8
After what was in effect a preamble—Emperor: The Gates of Rome
(2003)—Julius Caesar takes center stage in this second fast-moving, action-oriented installment in Iggulden's projected four-book retelling of the Roman emperor's...
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Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $25 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-33663-5
The third (after Emperor: The Gates of Rome
and Emperor: The Death of Kings
) of four projected volumes in the much-praised fiction series based on the life and times of Julius Caesar, this sweeping epic resumes the narrative in Spain where young...
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Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $25 (383p) ISBN 978-0-385-33951-3
Author of the bestselling Emperor series on the life of Julius Caesar, Iggulden turns to another of history's great conquerors, Genghis Khan, for a new series of brilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction. Future conqueror Temujin̵
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Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $25 (387p) ISBN 978-0-385-33952-0
Iggulden, coauthor of the megaseller The Dangerous Book for Boys
, continues his masterful series on Genghis Khan (following Genghis: Birth of an Empire
) with another vividly imagined chapter. In the debut volume, the Great Khan rises from the...
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Conn Iggulden, Author . Delacorte $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-33953-7
The exciting third novel in Iggulden's Genghis Khan series tells the dramatic story of the Mongol invasion and conquest of Central Asia. Genghis has already defeated the Chinese and Koreans, and now marches his vast army west to punish and...
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Conn Iggulden, Delacorte, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33954-4
Iggulden's smashing fourth installment to his Mongol series (Genghis: Bones of the Hills, etc.) picks up after Genghis's death as his three sons and four grandsons vie to be the Mongol leader. After son Ogedai is named khan, one of his brothers...
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Conn Iggulden, Author Delacorte Press $25 (383p) ISBN 978-0-385-33767-0
Iggulden (Emporer: The Field of Swords) saves the best for last in the fourth and final novel of his well-received Emperor series, following the life of Julius Caesar. Caesar's story is a familiar one, but Iggulden writes it convincingly as a...
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Conn Iggulden. Putnam, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-16536-8
Iggulden's (The Emperor Series) latest exploration of the past hearkens back to 1443 during a transitional time for England. King Henry VI is nicknamed "The Lamb" because he is known more for his prayers than fortitude, and his advisors fret the...
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Conn Iggulden. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-68177-730-6
Having already taken on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and the War of the Roses, Iggulden (The Dangerous Book for Boys) successfully dramatizes the life of Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury and confidant of King Aethelstan, the grandson of Alfred the...
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Conn Iggulden, illus. by Lizzy Duncan. Harper, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-173098-6
A deliciously subversive vein runs through this story collection—not surprising coming from the coauthor of The Dangerous Book for Boys. The protagonist, Sparkler, is a tiny winged creature called a "tollin," which should not be confused with a...
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Conn Iggulden, Author, David Iggulden, Author . Morrow $25.99 (468p) ISBN 978-0-06-192824-6
In this off-key collection of biographical sketches, the authors of the bestselling Dangerous Book for Boys series stumble over the limitations of retro puerility as a worldview. A few Americans, like George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.,...
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Conn Iggulden, Author, Hal Iggulden, Author, Oliver Wyman, Read by , read by Oliver Wyman. HarperAudio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-146910-7
This abbreviated version of the bestselling book from across the pond ambitiously tries to live up to its billing as “the perfect book for every boy from eight to eighty.” Though younger boys will find much to ponder in such “Questi
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