Praise  for the top ten best seller: 
Warrior  of  Rome  1: Fire  in  the  East

“Vivid, racy  and  gripping, Harry  Sidebottom`s  novel  evokes  the  vividness, sexuality  and  humanity  of  the  later  Roman  empire  with  a  riot  of  colour. Yet  he  maintains  a  remarkable  level  of  historical  accuracy  and  faithfulness  to  what  we  know  of  the  realities  of  the  period – as  one  would  expect  from  one  of  its  major  scholars  who  also  happens  to  be  a  brilliant  master  of  fiction.”

Dr  Jas  Elsner
Senior  Research  Fellow, University  of  Oxford;
Visiting  Professor, University  of  Chicago.

“At last a piece of Roman historical fiction for grown ups”

Robert Low
Author of The Oathsworn Series

“I do not think I have ever experienced antiquity so directly: the brutality, the directness of expression and feeling, the deep bonds formed amid unmitigated violence”

Prof David Konstan
Brown University

“Harry Sidebottom`s prose blazes with such searing scholarship that there is enormous enjoyment in this rumbustuous tale of the Late Roman Empire … Sidebottom treads in the footsteps of the greatest mimetic historian-storytellers of the 18th and 19th centuries. He makes you feel as though you were there.”

Bettany Hughes
The Times

“The strength of Warrior of Rome lies in the portrayal of its central character and his evolving relationships with a cast of minor characters … Sidebottom provides a well-constructed, well-paced and gripping account … which, as a good series should, leaves the reader eagerly anticipating the next instalment.”

Justin Warshaw
TLS

“In  the  third  century  AD  the  Roman  empire  was  beginning  its  melt-down. It  was  horrible  and  violent. Harry  Sidebottom`s  epic  tale  starts  with  a  chilling  assassination  and  goes  on, and  up, from  there. Well  done  to  him  for  choosing  this  exciting  period  to  set  his  Roman  tale.”

Prof. Mary  Beard
University  of  Cambridge

“Like  Mary  Renault  meets  Tom  Clancy  on  speed, starring  Russell  Crowe  as  Ballista…  brilliantly  reconstructs  the  life  of  the  ancient  world, and  in  particular  its  military  technology, and  wraps  it  in  a  powerful  narrative  whose  themes  are  classic  in  more  ways  than  one…  gives  a  glimpse  of  a  little  known  period  of  Roman  history – and  it  has  some  unexpected  and  disturbing  parallels  with  contemporary  headlines. Its  the  best  sort  of  red-blooded  historical  fiction – solidly  based  on  a  profound  understanding  of  what  it  meant  to  be  alive  in  a  particular  time  and  place.  Roll  on  2  and  3”.

Andrew  Taylor
Author  of  The  Lydmouth  Series  and  The  American  Boy.

“Harry  Sidebottom  works  on  Rome  the  magic  that  Patrick  O`Brian  applied  to  Nelson`s  navy. He  has  the  touch  of  an  exceptionally  gifted  story  teller  drawing  on  prodigious  learning.”

Tim  Severin
Author  of  The  Brendan  Voyage  and  Corsair.