by Annelise Freisenbruch (Author)
The body of a Vestal Virgin is dragged out of the River Tiber. A senator bleeds to death in his bath. As the authorities turn a blind eye, Hortensia, daughter of the capital's most celebrated orator, feels compelled to investigate a trail of murders that lead to the dark heart of Rome. Flying in the face of her husband's and father's attempts to protect her, rebelling against the constraints imposed upon her sex, she is drawn ever deeper into the corrupt underworld that lurks in the shadows cast by the city's all-powerful elite. When fires begin to rage in the slums and more key witnesses are silenced, only one man can save Hortensia from becoming the next victim of a conspiracy to destroy the Republic: Lucrio, the damaged ex-gladiator to whom she already owes her life. But will the secrets of his own tragic past threaten to subsume them both...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Published: 20 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0715650998
ISBN 13: 9780715650998
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
This is a stunning novel that immerses us in the brutal world of the Roman Empire in the 1st century B.C. Annelise Freisenbruch is a gifted storyteller and tells a riveting tale. Highly recommended!
-- Alison Weir, author and historianA brilliant debut novel. Rivals of the Republic is an enthralling and convincing imagining of Ancient Rome, by an author who combines profound scholarship with a fluent and readable literary style
-- Harry Sidebottom, bestselling author of the Throne of the CaesarsseriesAnnelise Freisenbruch's Hortensia is a delight - passionate, articulate, fallible and, better still, inspired by a real woman,
-- Ruth Downie, author of the bestselling Medicus seriesRivals of the Republic takes us on an exciting journey as a young woman proves herself a worthy adversary in a war of wits with even general Crassus and his rival Pompey the Great. The enticing cast of characters includes Vestal virgins, gladiators, expert forgers, Cicero, and the young Julius Caesar
-- Margaret George, bestselling author of The Memoirs of CleopatraAnnelise Freisenbruch received her PhD in Classics from Cambridge University. She has worked as a researcher for the BBC and has appeared in documentaries about ancient Rome for PBS and CNN. Her first non-fiction book, The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars, was published to much critical acclaim and has been translated into eight languages. Rivals of the Republic is her first novel.
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