Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439289 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

Another Innovative Novel from the Author

Gillian Bradshaw was born in the US and was brought up in Washington, Santiago, Chile and Michigan. She is a classics graduate from Newnham College, Cambridge. She has won much acclaim as an historical novelist. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their four children.

This book is the latest offering from the author and is no different to Gillian Bradshaw's other novels (I had no idea she had written so many, until I checked the list) in respect of the fact that it is beautifully researched and written with the authority that only an excellent knowledge of the subject can bring.

Whatever historical period or subject the author writes about she seems able to capture the essence of the period and transport the reader back in time, in this case more than 2,000 years to a period of history when the Mediterranean sea must have appeared to be the centre of the world for all the ancient civilisations that bordered its shores and used the middle sea to trade their goods.

The author has no trouble at all in carrying the reader along with her on a journey of adventure and excitement. The storyline is a must for all those reader's interested in historical novels, be they ancient or modern. The book is fast paced, with no lulls in the story as far as I was concerned and I was sorry when it ended.

Gillian Bradshaw back on her best form
I'm going to have a review of this book published in the November 2008 issue of "The Historical Novels Review", issued by the Historical Novel Society, so I won't put the same words here; but I did greatly enjoy this novel. It's a good, rattling story, up to the level of her best work, such as "Island of Ghosts".