Forged in Rome Product design On a volcanic island

On a volcanic island

She wrote about power and terror

and to recognise and appreciate the messiest parts of our humanity' Hannah Ferguson

wit and poignancy

Abigail's surprise arrival forces a family - and an entire town - to unpack a twenty-four-year-old secret that rocked this tiny place to its core: that time they found something much iffier

Forged in Rome Product design On a volcanic islandSitting alongside his Nero series and set in Ancient Rome, master storyteller Conn Iggulden's epic next novel follows a freed slave's fierce fight to survive and ascend through the ranks of power Ancient Rome, AD 37 A scribe in a noble household, all Cormac has ever known is a life of slavery. When his master suddenly relieves him of his post, along with a hundred other men and women, Cormac is furnished with documents to free him from bondage but