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Forged in Rome
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  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405965323
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $28.00
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Forged in Rome

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17 Nov 2026
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25 Nov 2025
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20 Dec 2025
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20 Nov 2025
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Sitting alongside his Nero series and set in Ancient Rome, master storyteller Conn Iggulden's epic next novel follows a freed slave's fierce fight to survive and ascend through the ranks of power

Ancient Rome, AD 37.

A scribe in a noble household, Cormac has known only slavery—until the day he’s cast out and declared free. But freedom without food, work, or purpose is its own kind of sentence.

Somewhere between slave and citizen, all that was once orderly, structured and routine is now chaos, and Cormac must learn life anew.

His writing skills have afforded him flickers of opportunity in a world far wealthier than his, but will he resist the pull of the city's underbelly?

Can Cormac fight against all the odds to rise up and make something of his freedom?
  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405965323
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Conn Iggulden

Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. He has written three previous bestselling historical series, including Wars of the Roses. Dunstan is a stand-alone novel set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England, and The Falcon of Sparta is a stand-alone in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. The first book in his new Athenian series, The Gates of Athens, was a Sunday Times top five bestseller. Protector is the latest instalment in the Athenian series.
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Also by Conn Iggulden

Nero
Tyrant
Wars of the Roses: Bloodline
Wars of the Roses: Trinity
Dunstan
The Falcon of Sparta
Stormbird
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