The empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crumbling under the weight of its antiquity. For leading the fight to preserve the soul of Egypt is the Phoneician warrior, Hasdrubal Barca, the pharaoh's deadliest killer. But Barca is changing - a girl who was once a slave - tends to his wounds, and eases his tortured soul and teaches him to be human again.

He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." This book presents the life of Memnon.

Cairo, 1167 AD. On the banks of the River Nile, from a palace of gold & lapis lazuli, the Fatimid Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules over a crumbling empire. His city is awash with intrigue & in the shadow of the Grey Mosque, generals & emirs jockey for position under the scheming eyes of the powerful grand vizier, Jalal.

Beowulf meets The Lord of the Rings meets Bernard Cornwell in an epic novel of vengeance, faith and the power of myth. To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcneas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind-the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days. Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that's changed. A new faith has...