Romanitas - Softcover

McDougall, Sophia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575096926 ISBN 13: 9780575096929

Publisher: Gollancz, 2011

In a parallel modern world, the Roman Empire stretches from India in the East to the Great Wall of Terranova in the West. A runaway slave girl with a strange gift sets out to rescue her brother and seize her freedom, while the young heir to the Imperial throne discovers a plot against his life.
For all three, the only way to survive may shake the Empire to its roots.

A fast-moving, compelling story, brilliantly imagined - CONN IGGULDEN

[A] hugely imaginative debut - DAILY MIRROR

A thoroughly good read ... vividly imagined ... elegant, lively writing - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

About the Author:

Sophia McDougall lives in Hastings, East Sussex and studied English at Oxford. This was her first novel.

Review:

An enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain―Time Out

Compulsively readable . . . grips like a vice―SFX

Epic in undertaking, Romanitas creates a fascinating world that is both contemporary in tone, and yet about as far removed from the world we live in as it is possible to imagine. McDougall's writing style is fresh and light, and the involving story ensures you'll gobble up the 400 pages in no time, staying eager to find out how the remainder of the trilogy unfolds―Dreamwatch

Wonderful alt history, beautiful, heart-breaking, sweeping, surprising―Lauren Beukes

This is a magnificent series―Adrian Tchaikovsky

Perfectly fuses the hope and horror of ancient Rome with that of the modern world―Daniel Godfrey, author of New Pompeii

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0575096926
• ISBN 13: 9780575096929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544