Harry Sidebottom is a British author and historian, best known for his two series of historical novels the Warrior of Rome, and Throne of the Caesars. He is Quondam Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and lecturer at Lincoln College.
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
Warrior of Rome
Fire in the East (Michael Joseph, 2008)
King of Kings (Penguin, 2009)
Lion of the Sun (Penguin, 2010)
The Caspian Gates (Penguin, 2011)
The Wolves of the North (Penguin, 2012)
The Amber Road (Penguin/Michael Joseph, 2013)
The Last Hour (Bonnier Zaffre, 2018)
The Burning Road (Bonnier Zaffre, 2021) A Book of the Year in The Times
Falling Sky (Zaffre, 2022)
Throne of the Caesars
Iron & Rust (HarperCollins, 2014)
Blood & Steel (HarperCollins, 2015)
Fire & Sword (HarperCollins, 2016)
Stand-alone novels
The Lost Ten (Bonnier Zaffre, 2019)
The Return (Bonnier Zaffre, 2020)
The Shadow King (Bonnier Zaffre, 2023)
Non-fiction
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (2004)
International Relations, The Cambridge Companion of Greek and Roman Warfare (2007)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles (ed. with Michael Whitby) (2017)
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome, Oneworld (2022)