Tim Leach

The Sarmatian Trilogy

1 - A Winter War (Sep-2021)
2 - The Iron Way (Aug-2022)
3 - The Hollow Throne (Aug-2023)

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  The Last King of Lydia
  

  • Aug-2014
  • / Historical
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  A defeated king stands on top of a pyre. His conqueror, the Persian ruler Cyrus, signals to his guards; they step forward and touch flaming torches to the dry wood. Croesus, once the wealthiest man of the ancient world, is to be burned alive. As he w...

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  The King and the Slave
  

  • Dec-2015
  • / Historical
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  Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and a...

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  The Smile of the Wolf
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Historical
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  A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR.
  Tenth-century Iceland. In the midwinter darkness, on the lifeless black soils of a newly settled land, two friends kill a man. Kjaran, an itinerant storyteller, and Gunnar, a once-feared warrior, must...

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  Hedgehogs Can't Fly
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Hedgehogs are clever little animals and good at doing so many things but everyone knows that hedgehogs can't fly. This doesn't stop little Toby, however. When you follow your dream and you refuse to give up, who knows what you might achieve?...

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  A Winter War
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Historical
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  The Sarmatian Trilogy - 1
  

  SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARD 2022.
  A disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a trilogy set in the second century AD from the ...

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  The Iron Way
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Thriller
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  The Sarmatian Trilogy - 2
  

  A gripping historical adventure set in the second century AD and based on legends of King Arthur, The Iron Way is the second in Tim Leach's breathtaking Sarmatian Trilogy.
  AD 175, Vindolanda, Britannia.
  
  After their cavalry was bro...

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  The Hollow Throne
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Thriller
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  The Sarmatian Trilogy - 3
  

  The unmissable conclusion to Tim Leach's critically acclaimed historical adventure series set in the Roman Empire.
  
  AD 180. Vindolanda, Britannia. Sarmatian warrior Kai and his adopted tribe, the Votadini, struggle for survival in unfa...

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