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New novels
Three standalone novels from the less-told corners of the ancient world. The moments and people that shaped the world we know. Bound not by plot but by a motif: the shield, and the soldiers and makers the record forgets. Read them in any order.
The new novel · The Ocean Sea, Book 1
The Western Passage
The idea was right. The ship was wrong.
Genoa, 1291. Everything the Indies produce comes west through a chain of hands, and every hand takes its cut. Ugolino Vivaldi, a merchant who can read the weight of a cargo from the way the porters carry it, means to go round the chain by sea: out through the Strait, down the coast of Africa, and the first hull in pays nothing to anybody.