This challenging dark chronicle of modern Europe touches the same nerves as Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room

Profound...elegantly written...it is at once a tender love story, a compelling narrative about recent history, and an unflinching account of human cruelty and sacrifice

A passionate and poetic love story which never flinches from its task of exploring the way history compromises our lives

A candid and moving account of the struggle to reconcile the past with hope for the future

Between Mountains...[is] a profound gesture of remembrance, as well as a deeply moving work of art

Spartacus has returned home to Thrace to find a new king has usurped his throne. He is seized and then sold to a Roman slave trader but he is a fighter and is destined for greater things.
Historically little is known about the real Spartacus but in the hands of Ben Kane his legend has been crafted into two fantastic novels and this is the first.

A breathless romp…a real feel for the grit and the mad excitement of fighting and a fascination with a culture, Rome, that was obsessed with blood-lust.

Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope... Like all good novels this book tells us something new

An absorbing tribute to the city and its unsung heroes

In a novel of cinematic denouements, Quinn has reclaimed an intriguing chapter of Liverpool's past

A real page-tuner

He [Anthony] hooks you in with his deep, complex characters; he meticulously sets the scene