Gillian Bradshaw, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87332-5
Bradshaw's refreshingly candid jaunt into the age of chivalry blends knightly honor and maidenly forbearance with fairy-tale overtones while revealing the uglier side of the feudal system. Strong research and a brisk writing style yield a...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author . Forge $25.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0228-1
Fascinating historical figures—Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra—roam the ancient Egyptian desert and the glittering city of Alexandria in this latest from classics scholar Bradshaw (The Sand-Reckoner). The hero is Cleopatra
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author . Forge $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0653-1
In this fine historical thriller set in Rome in 16 B.C., Hermogenes, a well-to-do Greek trader from Alexandria, travels to the capital city to collect a debt owed to him by a powerful Roman consul, Tarius Rufus. When Hermogenes attempts to dun the...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author . Severn $28.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6641-7
At the start of Bradshaw's rousing adventure novel set in 246 B.C., the galley Atalanta
, “just out of the naval shipyard of the island republic of Rhodes,” runs into a pirate vessel while returning to Rhodes on its maiden voyage....
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Gillian Bradshaw, Sourcebooks Landmark, $14.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-4070-6
Bradshaw's Hopwood-winning series starter returns to shelves 30 years after its original release. Gwalchmai, aka the legendary warrior Gawain, tells the story of how he came to King Arthur's court. In boyhood, he studied sorcery with his mother,...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Nan A. Talese $20 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-41466-1
British novelist Bradshaw ( Imperial Purple ) has created a richly detailed, absorbing historical novel of the ancient world, with strong, well-developed characters and all the right plot elements: love, war, courtly life and the magic of the gods....
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87340-0
Armed with just a few antique facts, Bradshaw ably recreates the extraordinary life of Archimedes, the great mathematician and engineer who built sophisticated weapons during the first Punic War. Archimedes lived in the Greek city of Syracuse from...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-395-41159-9
marriage and the resumption of her medical career. Steeped in well-researched historical detail and local color that recreates the last days of the Roman Empire in several regions of the antique world, this is an action-filled, if predictable...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-395-43620-2
Bradshaw returns to the setting of The Beacon at Alexandria, again producing a historical novel that animates an era. Intrigue, bastardy and godlike privilege emerge as the chief motivators in a fanciful tale of the Byzantine Empress Theodora and...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-395-43635-6
Bradshaw ( Beekeeper's Daughter and Beacon at Alexandria ) creates a compelling fictional character, Demetrias. Wife and mother, well-born slave, she is the premier silk weaver working in fifth century Tyre, where life and commerce revolve around...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-688-10575-4
Born with his eyes wide open--a sure sign of the gods' displeasure--Prahotepstet has been plagued with bad luck and has failed to find success in any trade. When the 17-year-old stumbles across Hathor, the last dragon in Egypt, he finds his metier...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Greenwillow Books $14 (184p) ISBN 978-0-688-11357-5
Bradshaw maximizes the power of this taut fantasy adventure by grounding it in classical mythology. Aristeas, a Greek poet, is spirited off on a mission by Apollo. Captured by a couple of Arimaspians, a one-eyed people living under a terrible curse,
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Soho Press $15 (376p) ISBN 978-1-56947-010-7
Two entries in Soho's Hera series of historical fiction ``by and about women'' set, respectively, in 12th century France and Republican Rome. (July)
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author Forge $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86439-2
Set during an uneasy, second-century alliance between the marauding, scalp-taking Slavic Samartians and the Roman empire, Bradshaw's fifth historical novel (after Horses of Heaven) is a vivid, atmospheric work that follows the Samartian prince...
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Gillian Bradshaw. Sourcebooks Landmark, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-4072-0
Bradshaw's second Arthurian tale, originally published in 1981, surpasses 2010's Hawk of May in bringing the world of a Roman Arthur to life. The tale of Gwalchmai, aka Gawain, continues, this time narrated by no-nonsense Rhys ap Sion, a farmer who...
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Gillian Bradshaw, Author, Jos A. Smith, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $14 (154p) ISBN 978-0-688-10576-1
In this action-filled sequel to The Dragon and the Thief , Bradshaw conjures up a world of treachery, politics and hasty war where goodness, bravery and quick wits eventually triumph. The novel opens dramatically, with Princess Kandaki of Nubia...
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