Ben Kane Books in Order

In AD 410, as Alaric’s Visigoths close in on Rome, imperial half-sister Galla Placidia watches power slip through her fingers. Taken hostage when the city falls, she is drawn into a dangerous new life among so‑called barbarians, determined to carve out a path to the imperial throne.

On Ireland’s east coast, thirteen-year-old Finn finds a dead Norseman’s sword and earns the name Stormcrow under Odin’s raven. When his family is torn apart, he joins his shaman friend Vekel on a quest for vengeance that leads from Irish courts to the Norse city of Dyflin and the longship’s deck.

1812: half-English, half-French gambler Matthieu Carrey is blackmailed into spying for Britain inside Napoleon’s Grande Armée as it invades Russia. Chasing his actress lover toward Moscow, he must survive intrigue, brutal marches and the shattering retreat across a frozen, enemy‑haunted landscape.

Set during the riotous Roman festival of Saturnalia, this long short story follows centurion Tullus as a brief midwinter respite on the frontier turns dangerous. Revelry, rivalries and a sudden threat force him to protect his men when discipline is at its weakest.

AD 140: Lucius Pontius Aquila, centurion of the Sixth Legion, is sent north to help on a new wall beyond Hadrian’s. A routine mercy mission across the border collapses into disaster, leaving him and a handful of men hunted through hostile country where every hill could hide an enemy warband.

This collection gathers seven Roman short stories, from a novice gladiator ordered to fight for Emperor Caligula to centurion Tullus’s frontier crises and a final journey with the Forgotten Legion. It’s a quick tour of Kane’s worlds, ideal between novels or as a first taste of his work.

With a fragile peace agreed in the Holy Land, Richard Lionheart finally turns for home — only to face capture, ransoms and plots. As enemies circle in France and England, Ferdia must steer through court intrigue and battlefield danger to help his king keep his crown.

Now king of England, Richard sets out on the Third Crusade to seize back Jerusalem. Ferdia rides at his side through storms at sea, gruelling marches and the bloody clash at Arsuf, where loyalty to the Lionheart is tested against the grim reality of holy war.

1179: Irish nobleman Ferdia is captured during Henry II’s wars and saves the life of the king’s son Richard, becoming his squire. Thrown into sieges and rebellions in Aquitaine, he witnesses the making of the warrior who will earn the name Lionheart and attract deadly jealousy at home.

In this Tullus novella, Rome faces a fierce uprising in the Balkan provinces during the great Pannonian revolt. Sent east with trusted optio Fenestela and raw recruits, Tullus must hold his small force together as ambushes, bad leadership and brutal fighting threaten to overwhelm them.

Reeling from defeat by the Macedonians, Flamininus gathers Rome’s legions for a final strike at King Philip’s phalanx. As both powers gamble everything on one campaign, Felix and Demetrios find themselves tested by infighting, brutal marches and a climactic battle that will decide Greece’s future.

Retired and restless, centurion Tullus signs on to guard an amber merchant travelling far beyond Rome’s northern borders. What should be a lucrative venture becomes a fight for survival amid unfamiliar seas, strange tribes and a wilderness that does not care who once carried an eagle.

Set after the Forgotten Legion trilogy, this long short story follows Romulus and Tarquinius as they journey to the very edge of the known world in search of their lost friend Brennus. Their march brings new landscapes, fresh dangers and a reckoning years in the making.

As Hannibal’s defeat crowns Rome the western superpower, ambitious senator Flamininus turns his gaze to Greece. While Roman brothers Felix and Antonius march in the legions, poor oarsman Demetrios dreams of joining Macedon’s phalanx, and both sides edge toward a brutal collision of empires.

AD 15: one of the lost eagles has been recovered, but Tullus refuses to rest while Arminius lives and Rome’s grip on Germania is fragile. As the German chieftain rallies new tribal armies, Tullus is drawn into a final, storm-lashed campaign of treachery, ambush and hard fighting.

Legionary Marcus Piso looks forward to his hard-earned payday in a German frontier town, but a brawl and a bad decision send events spiralling out of control. Before the night is over, streets and amphitheatre alike will run with blood, and Piso’s loyalty will be brutally tested.

Five years after Teutoburg, battle-scarred and demoted Tullus is obsessed with recovering the lost eagle of his old legion. As Rome launches brutal reprisals across Germania, he leads his men deep into enemy territory to hunt Arminius and reclaim honour that seems forever out of reach.

On the German frontier in 6 BC, newly promoted centurion Lucius Tullus wagers on a foot race between rival legionaries. What begins as barracks rivalry turns deadly in the town’s alleys and at an Egyptian goddess’s shrine, teaching Tullus how quickly fortune can turn.

AD 9: Governor Varus leads three Roman legions into the forests east of the Rhine, trusting the guidance of the German noble Arminius. Centurion Tullus senses danger as storms, bad roads and hostile tribes close in, until an epic ambush leaves Rome fighting simply to survive.

As the war between Rome and Carthage grinds on, former friends Hanno and Quintus face each other at the siege of Syracuse. Roman siege engines and Archimedes’ defences clash, Aurelia is trapped inside the city, and all three must choose between duty, love and survival.

In winter 218 BC, Hanno leads a small Carthaginian patrol through the forests of Cisalpine Gaul in search of badly needed grain. Freezing, hungry and surrounded by unreliable allies, he and his second‑in‑command Mutt stumble into an ambush where survival is far from guaranteed.

Hannibal drives his army deeper into Italy, hunting for the decisive battle he craves while Roman generals try to avoid him. Young soldier Hanno marches with the Carthaginians, Quintus fights under a false name for Rome, and both are hurled toward the slaughter at Cannae.

Returning to Thrace after soldiering, Spartacus is betrayed, seized and sold to a Roman gladiator school. In the brutal training yards of Capua he forges alliances, finds love and begins to plan the uprising that will turn a single slave into the symbol of a rebellion.

Spartacus now leads a vast army of escaped slaves that has humiliated Rome’s legions. As victory and the Alps beckon, he must choose between escape and a final showdown, while internal rivalries and the ruthless ambitions of Crassus threaten to destroy everything he has built.

A reckless adventure unites Hanno, a Carthaginian officer’s son, with Quintus, the son of a Roman landowner. When war breaks out and Hannibal marches on Italy, friendship is shattered, one boy is enslaved, and both are pulled onto opposite sides of the Second Punic War.

After years in the East, Romulus and Tarquinius reach Alexandria only to be swept into Caesar’s civil war. As battles rage from Asia Minor to Egypt and Rome itself, they and Fabiola are drawn toward the Ides of March, when their choices will shape the Republic’s fate.

Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius languish as prisoners of the Parthians, forced to fight and march on the remote eastern frontier while dreaming of escape. In Rome and Gaul, Fabiola battles slave-catchers and Roman politics as Caesar and the Republic hurtle toward civil war.

In late Republican Rome, enslaved twins Romulus and Fabiola are torn apart when he is sold to a gladiator school and she to a brothel. Joined by a Gaulish champion and an Etruscan seer, they are dragged into Crassus’s doomed campaign against Parthia and the birth of the “forgotten legion.”