**Conn Iggulden *is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. He has written four 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 st...

**Conn Iggulden *is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. He has written four 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. Both instalments of Conn's Athenian series, The Gates of Athens and Protector, were instant Sunday Times bestsellers. The Lion is the first book in Conn's epic new series, * The Golden Age.