After Rome: A Novel of Celtic Britain

By Morgan Llywelyn

After more than four hundred years of Roman rule, the island its conquerors called Britannia was abandoned-left to its own devices as the Roman empire contracted in a futile effort to defend itself from the barbarian hordes encroaching upon its heart. As Britannia falls into anarchy and the city of Viroconium is left undefended, two cousins who remained behind when the imperial forces withdrew pursue very different courses in the ensuing struggle to unite the disparate tribes and factions throughout the land.

In Morgan Llywelyn's stunning medieval novel After Rome, passionate, adventurous Dinas recruits followers and dreams of kingship. Thoughtful Cadogan saves a group of citizens when Saxons invade and burn Viroconium, then becomes the reluctant founder and leader of a new community that rises in the wilderness. The two cousins could not be more different, but their parallel stories encapsulate the era of a new civilization struggling to be born in the Middle Ages.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Feb 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781429987400

Morgan Llywelyn

MORGAN LLYWELYN is the author of such highly praised historical novels as the New York Times bestselling Lion of Ireland, Bard, Brian Boru, Finn Mac Cool, Pride of Lions, and 1916. She is celebrated as the high priestess of Celtic historical fiction and has won numerous awards for her historical fiction. She lives near Dublin, Ireland.

Reviews for After Rome

[Reinaldo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A captive historic novel that takes place in where now are England and Wales, with great characters struggling to adapt to changing times.

[alwright1_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Interesting historical period and characters, but it seems like such a brief part of their lives.