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Sitting 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, Cormac has known only...
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Sitting 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, Cormac has known only slavery—until the day he's cast out and declared free. But freedom without food, work, or purpose is its own kind of sentence.
Somewhere between slave and citizen, all that was once orderly, structured and routine is now chaos, and Cormac must learn life anew.
His writing skills have afforded him flickers of opportunity in a world far wealthier than his, but will he resist the pull of the city's underbelly?
Can Cormac fight against all the odds to rise up and make something of his freedom?
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Pre-orderForged in Rome
Sitting 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, Cormac has known only slavery—until the day he's cast out and declared free. But freedom without food, work,...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 17 Nov 2026Pre-order
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ISBN: 9781405965323
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 316g
Pages: 448
About the Author
CONN IGGULDEN is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today, with bestselling series on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and the Wars of the Roses, as well as two stand-alone novels: Dunstan, set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England and The Falcon of Sparta, in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. Both instalments of his Athenian series, The Gates of Athens and Protector, and his recent Golden Age series, Lion and Empire, are Sunday Times bestsellers. Tyrant and Inferno follow on from the Sunday Times bestselling Nero in Iggulden's most recent series.
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