S.J.A. Turney

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2009
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Damned Emperors

1 - Caligula (Mar-2018)
2 - Commodus (Aug-2019)
3 - Domitian (Oct-2022)
4 - Caracalla (Sep-2023)

Knights Templar

1 - Daughter of War (Apr-2018)
2 - Last Emir (Nov-2018)
3 - City of God (May-2019)
4 - The Winter Knight (Nov-2019)
5 - The Crescent and the Cross (Jul-2020)
6 - The Last Crusade (Jan-2021)

Marius' Mules

1 - The Invasion of Gaul (Apr-2009)
2 - The Belgae (Nov-2010)
3 - Gallia Invicta (Sep-2011)
4 - Conspiracy of Eagles (Oct-2012)
5 - Hades' Gate (May-2013)
6 - Caesar's Vow (Jan-2014)
7 - The Great Revolt (Nov-2014)
8 - Sons of Taranis (Aug-2015)
9 - Pax Gallica (Sep-2016)
10 - Fields of Mars (Jun-2017)
11 - Tides of War (Aug-2018)
12 - Sands of Egypt (Jul-2019)
13 - Civil War (Aug-2020)
14 - The Last Battle (Oct-2021)
15 - The Ides of March (Mar-2023)

The Ottoman Cycle

1 - The Thief's Tale (Mar-2013)
2 - The Priest's Tale (Aug-2013)
3 - The Assassin's Tale (Jun-2014)
4 - The Pasha's Tale (Apr-2015)

Praetorian

1 - The Great Game (Mar-2015)
2 - The Price of Treason (Sep-2018)
3 - Eagles of Dacia (Nov-2017)
4 - Lions of Rome (Feb-2020)
5 - The Cleansing Fire (Jan-2020)

A Roman Adventure

1 - Crocodile Legion (Mar-2016)
2 - Pirate Legion (Sep-2017)

Tales of the Empire

1 - Interregnum (May-2009)
2 - Ironroot (Aug-2010)
3 - Dark Empress (May-2011)
3.5 - Emperor's Bane (Jul-2016)
4 - Insurgency (Aug-2016)
5 - Invasion (Feb-2017)
6 - Jade Empire (Oct-2017)

Valens

1 - Vengeance (Dec-2020)

Wolves of Odin

1 - Blood Feud (Jul-2021)
2 - The Bear of Byzantium (Feb-2022)
3 - Iron and Gold (Nov-2022)
4 - Wolves around the Throne (Nov-2023)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • The Invasion of Gaul

    Marius' Mules - 1


    (Updated 2nd edition of Marius' Mules: The Conquest of Gaul ISBN 1849238901)

    It is 58 BC and the mighty Tenth Legion, camped in Northern Italy, prepare for the arrival of the most notorious general in Roman history: Julius Caesar.

    ...

  • Interregnum

    Tales of the Empire - 1

    The Empire has fallen. The Empire must rise.For twenty years civil war has torn the Empire apart; the Imperial line extinguished after the mad Emperor Quintus was burned in his palace, betrayed by his greatest general and oldest friend, Kiva Caerdin....

  • Ironroot

    Tales of the Empire - 2

    In the riveting second instalment of a new and epic historical fantasy series, an Imperial captain must confront an ancient treachery... Lucius Varro, a captain in the Fourth Army, is about to have the worst day of his life. Wounded and poisoned in b...

  • The Belgae

    Marius' Mules - 2

    Marius' Mules II: The Belgae. 57BC. The fearsome Belgae have gathered a great army to oppose Rome, and Fronto and the legions assemble once more to take Caesar's war against the most dangerous tribes in the northern world. While the legions battle th...

  • Dark Empress

    Tales of the Empire - 3

    When stranded on the fringe of a crumbling Empire, how do you defend what really matters?A time of trials, war and terror is coming to the desert city of M’Dahz, the Empire’s southernmost outpost. As Imperial power falters, then withdraws, the po...

  • Gallia Invicta

    Marius' Mules - 3

    It is 56bc. As Fronto and his friends winter in Rome and Caesar in Illyricum, trouble is brewing in the north. The tribes of Armorica, driven to desperate action by the harsh rule of Crassus, raise their standards in defiance of the Roman eagle, caus...

  • Tales of Ancient Rome

  • Conspiracy of Eagles

    Marius' Mules - 4

    55BC and Caesar's army gathers in the north of Gaul, preparing to drive invading Germanic peoples from Gaul and to traverse the dangerous northern ocean bringing punishment to the tribes of Britannia for their assistance of Gaulish rebels. But Fronto...

  • The Thief's Tale

    The Ottoman Cycle - 1

      Two brothers -- a warrior and a thief -- are drawn into a deadly plot at the dawn of the Ottoman empire: “Fast-paced and filled with action and adventure.” -- Historical Novel Society   Istanbul, 1481: The once great city of Constant...



  • Hades' Gate

    Marius' Mules - 5

    54bc. As tensions build in Gaul and the druids manoeuvre the tribes towards general rebellion, Priscus and the diminishing senior staff of Caesar's army prepare to return to Britannia, this time with a vast army and a will to crush the tribes of that...

  • The Priest's Tale

    The Ottoman Cycle - 2

    Two men on separate quests for revenge collide in the Mediterranean in this suspenseful Renaissance historical adventure. Crete, 1492: After a sojourn on a Venetian-controlled island, Skiouros has learned everything he needs to know for his true ques...

  • Caesar's Vow

    Marius' Mules - 6

    It is the eve of destruction. Gaul seethes and bucks more than ever in revolt against the Roman invader, with even Caesar's allies beginning to question their loyalty. A conspiracy of Druids and Kings move the pieces into position in their great game...

  • The Assassin's Tale

    The Ottoman Cycle - 3

      In this gripping Renaissance historical adventure, a vengeful man has found his target but killing him is another challenge.  Italy, 1493: As the inquisition takes hold in Spain and the Vatican seethes under the rule of the Borgias, Skiou...

  • The Great Revolt

    Marius' Mules - 7

    The pieces are in place. After many months of clandestine organisation, Vercingetorix, backed by the druids and leading an army of rebellious tribes, is ready to make his first moves towards independence for his people and the annihilation of Rome's ...

  • The Great Game

    Praetorian - 1

    Promoted to the elite Praetorian Guard in the thick of battle, a young legionary is thrust into a seedy world of imperial politics and corruption. Tasked with uncovering a plot against the newly crowned Emperor Commodus, his mission takes him from...

  • The Pasha's Tale

    The Ottoman Cycle - 4

    A man returns home only to be drawn into a murderous coup in this thrilling conclusion to an epic historical adventure series. Five years since Skiouros left the city of Constantine, he has come to understand the dreadful price exacted by vengeance. ...

  • Sons of Taranis

    Marius' Mules - 8

    51 BC. In the aftermath of the dreadful siege of Alesia the tribes of Gaul lie broken and sparse, and yet the fires of rebellion still burn in the hearts of a few. As Caesar and his army continue to pacify the land wherever revolt can be found, a new...

  • Crocodile Legion

    A Roman Adventure - 1

    An exciting new series for children: The prefect of Egypt needs money. And the men of the 22nd Legion must brave mazes and tombs and curses and crocodile gods to get to it. Marcus and Callie, orphaned in ancient Alexandria and taken in by their uncle...

  • Emperor's Bane

    Tales of the Empire - 3.5

    From barbarian slavery to conquest and treacheryFor centuries, the Khmar have eked out a nomadic existence on the fringes of civilisation. Tenzhin is only a boy when his tribe strikes deep into the Jin Empire and faces the might of the J...



  • Insurgency

    Tales of the Empire - 4

    A forbidden love. A daring escape. A gathering storm. Forty years have passed since the Empire was restored. Emperor Kiva the Golden, his wife Jala Parishid, and his brother Marshal Quintillian have together overseen decades of peace and prosperity, ...

  • Pax Gallica

    Marius' Mules - 9

    It is 50BC and Caesar winters with his legions in the north, all Gaul conquered but a triumphant return to Rome denied him by the senate who seek his blood. Yet unrest stirs in unknown lands as the tribes of mountainous Aquitania rise under a terrify...

  • Invasion

    Tales of the Empire - 5

    For the glory of Empire!At the Empire’s northern edge lies Alba: strange, savage, unconquerable. Twenty years ago this rain-sodden island defeated a huge Imperial army. Now the Empire returns. Disgraced generals are looking for vengeance. Their for...

  • Bear and the Wolf

    A short story of love and danger on the empire's most hostile frontier. Senna, a native Briton married to a Roman auxiliary, accidentally uncovers a dreadful plan by the rebellious northern Maeatae tribe. Her husband Brigius, a Briton w...

  • Fields of Mars

    Marius' Mules - 10

    The war in Gaul is over, but the fight for Rome is only just beginning. Denied his consulship by the senate and nearing the end of his term as governor, Caesar waits at Ravenna with one legion, making a last attempt at reconciliation. Threatened with...

  • Pirate Legion

    A Roman Adventure - 2

    Marcus and Callie and the men of the 22nd Legion have solved the mystery of the Pharaoh's treasure, but their quest revealed the existence of a shadowy criminal waiting to receive that treasure. Now they are bound for Crete, home of the criminal coll...

  • Jade Empire

    Tales of the Empire - 6

    Can the Empire survive its most awesome challenge yet?Aram of the Inda, a scattered people, has seen his lands pillaged, his sons taken and his empire crushed by the all-powerful Jade Empire. Its numberless armies have crushed the disunited Inda, swa...

  • Eagles of Dacia

    Praetorian - 3

    At the mercy of the scheming Imperial Chamberlain, Cleander, Rufinus is dispatched to Dacia, a land of untamed beauty at the edge of the Roman world, with orders to investigate the two legionary commanders there for signs of treason. 

    Unce...

  • Deva Tales

    A restive province, a troublesome official, a city on the brink of disaster. 89 AD. Britannia is peaceful under the protection of three legions and the rule of the emperor Domitian, but a plot is afoot to cause trouble at Deva, home of the Twentieth ...

  • Caligula

    The Damned Emperors - 1

    'An engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' Antonia Senior, The Times'Caligula as you've never seen him before! A powerfully moving read from one of the best ancient world authors in the business' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Everyone...



  • Daughter of War

    Knights Templar - 1

    An extraordinary story of the Knights Templar.Europe is aflame. On the Iberian Peninsula the wars of the Reconquista rage across Aragon and Castile. Once again, the Moors are gaining the upper hand. Christendom is divided.Amidst the chaos is a young ...

  • Tides of War

    Marius' Mules - 11

    It is 48 BC and Caesar is master of Rome, but Pompey is at large in the huge recruiting grounds of the east with a core of powerful officers, nominally representing the senate in absentia. As the general deals with matters in the city his army gat...

  • The Price of Treason

    Praetorian - 2

    Two years have passed since the emperor's loyal Praetorian guardsman Gnaeus Marcius Rustius Rufinus foiled Lucilla's great assassination plot. Plagued by the ghosts of his past, Rufinus has enacted his own form of justice upon the Praetorian caval...

  • Last Emir

    Knights Templar - 2

    Risk everything... fight to the last.The relics of Christendom have been plundered during the long Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsula. Newly minted Templar Sergeant Arnau de Vallbona must recover one of the most elusive to save his priory at R...

  • City of God

    Knights Templar - 3

    Journey to the heart of an empire: a jaw-dropping historical adventure from master storyteller S.J.A. Turney.Arnau de Vallbona and his fellow Templar Brother Ramon are bound for the Holy Land to take part in the great Crusade when fate intervenes.Del...

  • Sands of Egypt

    Marius' Mules - 12

    Winter, 48 BC. Caesar and his small force are trapped in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Caught up in the dynastic struggles of the House of Ptolemy, the consul has sided with the clever and ruthless Queen Cleopatra. Her brother and fellow monarch P...

  • Commodus

    The Damned Emperors - 2

    Worshipped by Rome. Betrayed by love. Stalked by death. Rome is enjoying a period of stability and prosperity. The Empire's borders are growing, and there are two sons in the imperial succession for the first time in Rome's history. But all is not as...

  • The Winter Knight

    Knights Templar - 4

    A murder in a far off castle. A deadly struggle to survive… An intense and gripping Medieval thriller.In the depths of winter at an ancient German castle, high up in the mountains, a noble is found dead under mysterious circumstances.Back at Rourel...

  • The Cleansing Fire

    Praetorian - 5

    The villain Cleander has fallen, his wickedness gone from the imperial court, but his influence lives on. Amongst the Praetorians, a network of spies, killers and thieves remain, clawing on to the power they have enjoyed. Rufinus, returned to the Gua...

  • Lions of Rome

    Praetorian - 4

    Rufinus is dead, crumpled at the base of a cliff in far-off Dacia. Or so the world believes. Back in the west, secretly in the entourage of the fierce Septimius Severus, the young hero moves in the shadows with fellow conspirators in an attempt to fi...



  • The Crescent and the Cross

    Knights Templar - 5

    An epic battle of the Reconquista; a personal struggle to survive; a fight for glory. War is brewing, and the Pope has summoned a crusade. The nations of Christendom are rallying to fight the Almohad caliphate, but they are a formidable foe. Meanwhil...

  • Civil War

    Marius' Mules - 13

    46 BC. Pompey is dead, Egypt is settled, and Rome is controlled by the loyal Marcus Antonius. As the new year looms, Rome’s greatest general and dictator Julius Caesar moves precipitously to take on the last stronghold of the rebel faction: Afr...

  • Vengeance

    Valens - 1

    A remote, snow-bound fort high in the mountains of northern Britannia. A criminal, a caretaker garrison, a collection of misfit civilians. A revenge of colossal proportions. A bad day for Aelius Valens.Vengeance: A novella of Roman Britain.All procee...

  • The Last Crusade

    Knights Templar - 6

    The unforgettable finale to S.J.A. Turney’s epic Knights Templar series.As Arnau and his battle-weary Templars head home from battle, they face a new, insidious challenge: one seemingly from within the Order of the Temple itself.Word reaches them t...

  • Blood Feud

    Wolves of Odin - 1

    The wolves of Odin have been unleashed: the hunt has begun.Anno Domini 1040. Christianity has swept unstoppably across Scandinavia, leaving few enclaves of the old ways clinging on to their fading world as King Olof of Sweden works to convert his peo...

  • Hauntings

    FEAR IS AS OLD AS TIME ITSELFChilling Tales that will take you through a labyrinth of historical horror.Foreword written by Sharon Bennett Connolly, author of Defenders of the Norman Crown You will encounter a tormented Roman general.A Norse woman w...

  • The Last Battle

    Marius' Mules - 14

    The war in Africa is over and the rebel cause hangs by a thread. With opposition to Caesar now led by Labienus and by Pompey’s sons in Hispania, Caesar is one step from ending the civil war that has plagued Rome for years.Before the war can be ...

  • The Bear of Byzantium

    Wolves of Odin - 2

    The wolves of Odin sail to the centre of the world: Constantinople.AD 1041. After successfully avenging the death of his father, Halfdan and the crew of the Sea Wolf seek adventure in strange new lands, far from their Scandinavian home.They join the ...

  • Domitian

    The Damned Emperors - 3

    Raised in chaos. Forced to rule. Abandoned by the gods.Rome, AD 52. The Julio-Claudian dynasty is in its death throes. Over the next twenty years, chaos descends as Claudius then Nero are killed. The whole empire bucks and heaves with conspiracy, reb...

  • Iron and Gold

    Wolves of Odin - 3

    The wolves of Odin land in Italy, and the tantalising scent of gold is in the air…AD 1043. Having escaped Constantinople with their lives " barely " but not their ship, Halfdan and the wolves of Odin are now mercenaries in the Byzantine army, s...



  • The Ides of March

    Marius' Mules - 15

  • Caracalla

    The Damned Emperors - 4

    Two brothers founded Rome. Will two brothers tear it apart?AD 193. After a year of brutal civil war, Rome is settled under Septimius Severus and his aspirations for a new dynasty of emperors.Severus’s sons, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus " better know...

  • Wolves around the Throne

    Wolves of Odin - 4

    'A rollicking good story' Editor's Choice, Historical Novels ReviewThe wolves of Odin escort a Norman noblewoman to her wedding in France, but there are plenty who object to the union, and will not hold their peace… AD 1044. All eyes are on th...

  • Loki Unbound

    The Wolves of Odin must bring a rogue Viking chief to heel, in the rolling Yorkshire Dales…AD 1044. Fleeing the machinations of William the Conqueror in France, the Wolves of Odin set sail for Britain.They make for the north of the country, heading...

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S.J.A. Turney has published 53 books.

The next book by S.J.A. Turney, Loki Unbound, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by S.J.A. Turney, The Invasion of Gaul, was published in April 2009.

Yes. S.J.A. Turney has 9 series.
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