Savage City by Sophia Mcdougall
An explosion rips through the Colosseum, and as the smoke clears the world is changed forever. A new Emperor, spurred on by a riddling prophecy and armed with a devastating superweapon, stands ready to make his mark on history. Una, Sulien, and a desperate alliance of slaves, refugees and criminals, must resist the full power of the Roman Empire at its most ruthless, or lose everything they have fought for.
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 imagineMcDougall'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 *
Compulsively readable . . . grips like a vice * SFX *
An enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain * Time Out *
Perfectly fuses the hope and horror of ancient Rome with that of the modern world * Daniel Godfrey, author of New Pompeii *
This is a magnificent series * Adrian Tchaikovsky *
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 *
Compulsively readable . . . grips like a vice * SFX *
An enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain * Time Out *
Wonderful alt history, beautiful, heart-breaking, sweeping, surprising * Lauren Beukes *
Compulsively readable . . . grips like a vice * SFX *
An enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain * Time Out *
Perfectly fuses the hope and horror of ancient Rome with that of the modern world * Daniel Godfrey, author of New Pompeii *
This is a magnificent series * Adrian Tchaikovsky *
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 *
Compulsively readable . . . grips like a vice * SFX *
An enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain * Time Out *
Sophia McDougall studied English at Oxford. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex where she also writes plays and poetry. The Romanitas trilogy is her first series of novels.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780575096387 |
| ISBN 10 | 0575096381 |
| Title | Savage City |
| Author | Sophia Mcdougall |
| Series | Romanitas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2012-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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