KLIO PRESS is dedicated to ‘Historical Fiction’ for ages 12 through YA to Adult. Reintroducing some classic titles, award-winning stories and new editions
FIRST TITLES 2026
‘ The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.’
Plutarch
Klio is the Greek Muse of History, one of the nine Muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (the goddess of memory).
She is depicted with scrolls or books, sometimes a trumpet or lyre, and is associated with preserving and celebrating the past.
‘Kleos’ is also the Greek word meaning to recount glory or fame, highlighting Klio’s role in commemorating great deeds and events
Please note that some of the historical books in Klio Press reflect the times in which they were written. Different attitudes to women, slavery, and other sensitive matters do not reflect our 21st century. However, they strongly represent the times in which the books are set and to change them to modern sensibilities would be to rob them of their original historical accuracy and voices. Please be aware.
12+
YOUNG ADULT
THE ROMAN BRITAIN SERIES
LEGIONS HENRY TREECE
OF THE
EAGLE
A STORY OF ROMAN BRITAIN
Title: Legions Of The Eagle
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720008
Extent: 192
RRP: £8.99 Paperback
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Gwydion needed all the courage he could muster. The Romans were approaching the ancient city of Camulodunum. Could they be stopped?
A story of loyalty, friendship, and tragedy as the Celtic tribes under the leadership of Caratacus face the full might of the legions.
‘Legions of the Eagle’ is a captivating historical novel that delves into the life of a young boy during the Roman conquest of Britain under the reign of Claudius.
Henry Treece was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor. He wrote a range of works but is mostly remembered as a writer of children’s historical novels.
His best known are his juvenile historical novels, particularly those set in the Viking Age although he also wrote some adult historical novels. Many of his novels are set in transitional periods in history, where more primitive societies are forced to face modernisation, e.g. the end of the Viking period, or the Roman conquest of Britain.
‘Henry Treece has the rare gift of writing about the ancient world as if he were native to it.’
The
Sunday Telegraph
‘Henry Treece has the rare gift of writing about the ancient world as if he were native to it.’ The Sunday Telegraph
THE ROMAN BRITAIN SERIES
Title: The Eagles Have Flown
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720015
Extent: 172 RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Young Festus’ family have been murdered and his home destroyed by the invaders. What should he do?
Fifteen hundred years ago Britain was facing the darkest period in its history. The Legions had left, hastening back to protect Rome. The great civilisation the Romans had built, the roads, fortresses and towns, were crumbling, and along the coast of Britain, land-hungry wanderers, beached their long-ships and killed all who opposed them.
No man could trust his neighbour; all were afraid. All that is, except Artos the Bear, a leader of great strength who like King Arthur has become one of our greatest heroes.
HENRY TREECE
EAGLES HENRY TREECE HAVE THE
FLOWN
‘Henry Treece, shares with Rosemary Sutcliff, alone of his contemporaries the ability to recreate the ancient world for Children as well as adults’ The Times
‘Henry Treece, is a master of language, who balances the sound and meaning of every word he writes’ The Times
HISTORICAL HEROES
OF
HENRY TREECE THE
Title: Hounds Of The King
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720039
Extent: 160
RRP: £8.99 Paperback
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
HOUNDS
KING
‘One day a golden-haired warrior came riding to a Saxon village in Mercia, and tossed a penny to a boy… The warrior was called Harold, and the boy was Beornoth: the one Earl Godwin’s heir, the other a lowly thegn’s son.’
For Beornoth became a Housecarl one of that proud band of warriors who swore oaths to guard their King to the death, and who were known as ‘The King’s hounds’.
‘Beautifully written coming of age tale for Teens, cleverly woven into real history.’
A magnificent picture of Saxon England, follows the fortunes of the finest flower of English warriors, destined to serve their King until the savage hilltop fight known to future generations as the Battle of Hastings. .
Title: Man With A Sword
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720060
Extent: 192
RRP: £8.99 Paperback
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
All of the Anglo-Saxon outlaws had surrendered to the Normans…except Hereward alone!
Hereward the legendary fighter was now cornered in the Fenlands. Will he be able to escape the Isle of Ely and the clutches of William the Conqueror?
All hope now rests with Hereward who represents the last hero of Saxon resistance. Armed with his sword ‘Brain-biter’ he is a man to meet all attacks!
‘ The heraldic heroism of the tale is preserved, but at the same time there is an easy, quick, and exciting sense of real life’ The Guardian
HENRY TREECE
THE VIKING SERIES
HENRY TREECE
ASTORYOFHAROLDHARDRADA
Title: Horned Helmet
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720091
Extent: 192
RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: UK & Commonwealth
A fugitive from his native Iceland, Beorn cannot believe his good fortune in being plucked from the jaws of death!
Adopted by the fierce berserker Starkad and his Viking warriors, Beorn is plunged into a seafaring life that demands strength, determination and courage.
Beorn rapidly grows from boy to man under the rigorous Viking code of conduct that embraces adventure, valour, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood. But will he ever see his home again?
Title: The Last Of The Vikings
Author: Henry Treece
ISBN: 9781800720084
Extent: 128
RRP: £8.99 Paperback
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Harold Hardrada was the last of the great Viking leaders. Can he make his next adventure the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England!?
Since he was fifteen years old Harold had been a warrior – in Norway, Constantinople, Sicily, and the Holy Land. Now a legendary captain he is invited to invade England at the side of Tostig Godwinson – half-brother to the English King
Can he claim the throne? Can he trust Tostig? But most of all can he beat the combined Anglo-Saxon forces?
HENRY TREECE
‘A very fine historical novel. It moves at a tremendous pace’ The Teacher
ASTORYOFANICELANDICVIKING
‘Henry Treece shares with Rosemary Sutcliff alone of his contemporaries the ability to recreate the ancient world for Children as well as adults’ The Times
NEWBERRY MEDAL HONOURS TITLES
A STORY OF WEST COUNTRY PIRACY
Title: The Dark Frigate
Author: Charles Boardman Hawes
ISBN: 9781800720046
Extent: 256 RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: World
THE DARK
FRIGATE
CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES
Title Cedric The Forrester
Author: Bernard G Marshall
ISBN: 9781800720053
Extent: 136 RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: World
Cedric, son of a twelfth-century forester in Pelham Wood, saves the life of Sir Richard Mountjoy's son and is made his squire.
Taught to read and fight, Cedric becomes the best crossbowman in England and excels in both Latin and military strategy. At the Battle of Eagles, he is knighted.
Now that King Richard The Lionheart is dead can Cedric help Sir Richard in the battle to get the new King John to sign the Magna Carta and grant common rights for all men?
London 1620 - Philip Marsham, a nineteen-year-old sailor, has just been orphaned when his father's ship was lost at sea. An accident with a gun causes him to flee London, leaving behind his small inheritance left by his father. He decides to journey across England on foot, heading towards Bideford in Devon.
During his travels, he encounters Tom Jordan and Martin Barwick, who claim to be fellow sailors. Tom, who is more commonly known as the Old One, soon parts company with them; however, Martin becomes Phil's traveling companion
When they reach Bideford, Martin leads the way to the house of Mother Taylor, an old woman who works as the gobetween for numerous illegal activities and arranges positions for Martin and Phil on a frigate, known as the Rose of Devon.
When their ship is captured by pirates, led by the ‘Old One’ only Phil and Will Canty, a fellow sailor of the same age, show reluctance to become pirates. Will Phil join them to save himself?
A STORY OF A SAXON CROSSBOWMAN
HENRY TREECE
Title: Fire Over England
Author: A E W Mason
ISBN: 9781800720077
Extent: 258
RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: World
England 1581 - Robin Aubrey believes his father George was arrested while travelling in Spain and executed. Robin becomes obsessed with avenging his Father.
Raising funding for a private naval destroy the Spanish treasure convoy, to hide his ambition from others. However, just departure, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spy-Master to Queen Elizabeth, summons Robin to a meeting and reveals that George is still alive.
the French Knights formed into line and setting their lances at the ready, bore down, with a terrible thunder of hooves, towards the English army. Against them were ranged a row of extraordinary engines never seen before in battle by either side.
They were the Bombards, the early canons.
friend Gareth had been Prince Edward the ‘Black in the army of Edward learned how much damage
Frenchman named Piers the story of their they all went through England alive?
A E W MASON
FIRE OVER
He asks Robin to spy for him in Spain instead of going on the expedition, with the incentive being that he can then rescue his father.
Can Robin accomplish the rescue? Can Robin help stop the Great Armada invading England?
HISTORICAL ACTION
Title: The Viper of Milan
Author: Marjorie Bowen
A STORY OF THE RENAISSENCE
ISBN: 9781800720305
Extent: 379
RRP: £9.99 Paperback Rights: World
The novel is set in Renaissance Lombardy in the middle of the 14th century and follows a battle for power between Gian Galeazzo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, and Mastino della Scala, Duke of Verona.
As the story opens, in 1360, Visconti is busy expanding his territories and forging alliances; he has forced Della Scala out of Verona and taken his wife, Isotta d’Este of Ferrara, as a hostage It seems that nobody can stop Visconti in his relentless conquest of northern Italy –nobody apart from Della Scala, who vows to regain his lost lands and release Isotta from captivity.
MILAN
Meanwhile, Visconti’s sister Valentine has problems of her own: her brother has arranged a marriage for her with the Duke of Orleans, while the man she really loves has been imprisoned in a deserted villa outside the city and is slowly starving to death. Another young lady, Graziosa, who lives with her artist father by the western gate of Milan, is also in love – but is her lover really as he seems?
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Author: Baroness Orczy
ISBN: 9781800720299
Extent: 252
RRP: £8.99 Paperback Rights: World
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a timeless tale of daring heroism, secret identities, and love tested by loyalty. Step into the heart of the French Revolution, where the guillotine casts a long shadow, and one man dares to defy it all.
In Revolutionary France, a mysterious English aristocrat known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel saves the innocent from execution, leaving behind a blood-red flower as his calling card. His true identity remains hidden behind charm, cunning, and elaborate disguises.
Across the English Channel, the glittering world of Georgian high society conceals its intrigues. Beautiful and brilliant Marguerite Blakeney, a former French actress now beloved in London’s elite circles, finds herself caught between past loyalties and present love. As suspicion grows and betrayal looms, she must navigate a dangerous game where truth and deception, love and honour, collide.
ASTORYOFTHEFRENCHREVOLUTION
The Beloved Story of the Masked Hero Who Defied an Empire
16+
ADULT
A STORY OF AGRICOLA’S INVASION OF CALEDONIA
‘ They make a desert and call it peace’
Tacitus
AT THE END
IAN M LEAN
Title: War At The End of The World
Author: Ian McLean
ISBN: 9781800720275
Extent: 256
RRP: £9.99 Paperback Rights: World
Ian McLean is a new author with a background in both publishing and bookselling. Interested in Roman Britain from an early age he has used his research experience to create the breadth and touch of the first century in Britannia.
The burning July sun beats down on the ranks of the massed Roman Cohorts as they wait at the foot of the slope deafened by the war chants of the tribes above them. Caledonia 83 AD – after six years of hard campaigning in northern Britain and the Caledonian lowlands Governor Julius Agricola is now set to conquer the Highland tribes and finally bring the whole island under Roman rule.
Narrated by Crispus, secretary to Agricola, we follow a tale not just of detailed ancient warfare but deceit, treachery, love, and murder in the province of Britannia. The Emperor Domitian expects results but is jealous of any shared glory or perceived threat to his throne. Can Agricola square his orders with these impossible expectations? Will Crispus decide where his true loyalties lie?
Based upon the biography by Tacitus of his father-in-law, Agricola, this is the true story of what really happened when Rome went to war at the far end of the world.
JANE LANE
ASTORYOF THEGLENCOEMASSACRE
THE JACOBITE NOVELS
Title: He Stooped To Conquer
Author: Jane Lane
ISBN: 9781800720176 Paperback
Extent: 272
RRP: £9.99
Rights: World
AIn the savage cold of a February night, a company of soldiers obeyed the orders issued by William III to butcher a small branch of Clan Donald living in Glencoe. The tale of Government sanctioned murder woven into a narrative featuring members of the family Donald. It creates strong characters on both sides of the tragedy which fuses the human costs with the official intolerance of the Scottish Highland clans of the period.
Jane Lane has expanded a page of history into an epic in which courtesy and treachery, hospitality and betrayal, love and hate, are manifested by the men and woman whose fate brought them together on that tragic winter night in 1692.
Jane Lane is the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers, an incredibly successful English novelist and biographer. Her bestknown books are historical novels set in the 17th and 18th century.
'A writer who offers...faithfulness to historical fact and style.’
The Sunday Times
'The books have great feeling for their period; are lucid, vigorous and moving. The handling of the narration is masterly, full of character and wit.’
Author Mary Renault
JANE LANE
ASTORYOF THEBASSROCKSIEGE
THE JACOBITE NOVELS
Title: His Fight Is Ours
ISBN: 9781800720190
Extent: 320
RRP: £9.99 Paperback
Rights World
THE JACOBITE NOVELS
Title: Fortress on the Forth
ISBN: 9781800720183
Extent: 208
RRP: £9.99 Paperback
Rights: World
ABass Rock – home to a brooding fortress precipitously perched on the rocky island guarding the Firth of Forth and gaol to incarcerated Jacobite prisoners.
In the summer of 1691 four Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke’, surprised the governor and guards and drove them out of the castle
The English Government placed the island and fortress under siege For almost three years the defenders repelled any attempt to retake the Castle and played one of the most astounding games of bluff in history
Can they survive and escape with honour as free men?
A minor epic of Scottish History!!
THEJACOBITENOVELS
His Fight is Ours follows the traumatic trials of MacLain, a Highland Chieftain of the Clan Donald, as he leads his people in the second Jacobite rising on behalf of James Stuart, the Old Pretender.
The battle to restore the king to his rightful throne is portrayed here in this absorbing historical escapade, which highlights all the beauty and romance of Highland life
Jane Lane presents a dazzling, picturesque story of the problems facing MacLain as leader of a proud, ancient race, and his struggles against injustice and the violent infamy of oppression.
'Miss Lane towers head and shoulders above the rest.’
AGAMEMNON SERIES
THE JACOBITE NOVELS
Title: Farewell To The White Cockade
ISBN: 9781800720206
Extent: 312
RRP: £9.99 Paperback
Rights: World
ASTORYOF BONNIEPRINCECHARLIE AND THE‘45’
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AFarewell to the White Cockade tells the tragic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his life-long exile trying to enlist support to recover his father's throne.
court of Louis XV in Versailles to the dock Antwerp, Charles Edward Stuart narrowly spies and assassins at every turn. Betrayed by his wife and brother, his dreams slowly fade and the Prince is sustained only by his own gritty courage, faith and an illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, whose life is dogged by a more perilous fate than her father could ever have imagined
Here is a very human and superbly written tragedy of a prince who for all his faults and failings remains to this day ‘King of the highland hearts ’
Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style. . . Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace.’ Author John Prebble
Title: The Wind In The Heather
ISBN: 9781800720213
Extent: 176
RRP: £9.99 Paperback Rights: World
Sutherlandshire at the beginning of the nineteenth century – a rugged Eden inhabited by a proud and resilient people inured to poverty and harsh conditions.
A poignant, tragic story based on the Highland Clearances where thousands of farmers were driven from their homes by tyrannical and greedy landowners.
The MacLeods are an innocent family, suffering many atrocities with bravery, and overcoming the many adversities that face them. Can they escape the ‘Clearances’ and manage to across the Atlantic to find a new home?
Jane Lane recreates wistful focus that spotlights a shameful past suffered by a Highland families.
THESTORYOFTHEHIGHLANDCLEARANCES
'A writer who offers...faithfulness to historical fact and style.’ The Sunday Times
NORMAN SERIES
A STORY OF STEPHENAND MATILDA
Title: A Knight in Anarchy
ISBN: 9781800720121
Extent: 256
RRP: £9.99 Paperback
Rights: World
Knight Humphrey Visdelou, finds his home destroyed, his family killed and himself mutilated by a rival baron. Attaching himself to the amoral and cruel Geoffrey de Manderville, he shares in that ambiguous lord’s rise and fall.
AThrough Humphrey’s eyes we see the Civil War fought by Stephen and Maud, for the English Crown, brought to life. This is not just a medieval romance it encompasses the brutality of 12th Century warfare, civil war politics and the split allegiances that the feudal system could bring about.
There are some terrific scenes of medieval warfare in this novel: the siege of Humphrey’s castle, the battle of the Standard in the wilds of North Yorkshire, Geoffrey’s wheeling and dealing ‘As always Shipway brings his vast knowledge of history and military service to instil life into his characters and paint a vivid picture of the era. Most of the characters appearing in the book were real as were most of the major events chronicled’.
‘George Shipway wrote a series of impressive novels on knighthood that were models of their kind. ‘The Knight in Anarchy’ has become a Medievalist and cult classic with gruesome descriptions of hand-to-hand combat, sieges, and other pointed encounters.’
George Frederick Morgan Shipway was born in Allahabad India . He then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned on to the ‘Unattached List’ for the Indian Army to gain practical military experience in an Indian environment before joining a regiment
Shipway retired as a Major and honorary Lieutenant-Colonel. After retiring he became a teacher at Cheam School in Berkshire for 19 years before becoming a novelist at the age of 60.
Shipway's cavalry background served him well when he took up writing; his descriptions of cavalry battles are full of minute detail and his works generally were meticulously researched.
ROMAN BRITAIN
GOVERNOR IMPERIAL
’A SUPERB HISTORICAL NOVEL’ THE SUNDAY EXPRESS
ASTORYOFROMANBRITAIN
Title: Imperial Governor
This book does for the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus, what I, CLAUDIUS did for the stuttering Emperor whose armies invaded Britain in AD43: an obscure historic figure is suddenly centre-stage. And he has a terrific story to tell Packed with fascinating detail of life in Roman Britain - and in the ranks of the Legions in particular.
Shipway's masterful military adventure has long been considered one of the most accomplished works of historical fiction set in the Roman Era, providing fascinating detail of life in Roman Britain and within the Roman Legions and a riveting saga of uprisings, war, and conquest in the ancient world.
Author: George Shipway
ISBN: 9781800720114
Extent: 400
RRP: £9.99 Paperback
Rights: UK and Commonwealth
Londinium is burning… Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, newly appointed governor of Roman Britain, is charged by an increasingly unstable Emperor Nero with a difficult task—the untamed island on the fringes of the empire must earn a profit
do so, Suetonius pursues the last of the Druids into Wales and, along the way, subdues the fractious Celtic chieftains who atop a fortune in gold and rare metals
Meanwhile, in the provincial capital of Londinium, war is brewing. As Nero's corrupt tax officials strip the British tribes of their wealth and dignity, an unlikely leader arises Queen Boudicca, chieftain of the Iceni, who unites the tribes of Britain and leads them on a furious and bloody quest vengeance and liberty.
novel told in the form of a memoir, Imperial Governor is a compelling and impeccably researched portrait of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman general and first-century Governor of Britannia, who unexpectedly found himself facing one of the bloodiest rebellions against Roman rule.
'Engrossing, exciting and lit by a kind of imaginative realism which makes characters, supposed to have been dead two thousand years, vivid and alive...I am reminded of Alfred Duggan - John Masters
‘This
GESTEBEAU
P C WREN
‘This timeless classic explores themes of loyalty, identity, and the bonds of brotherhood that transcend time and place. Prepare to embark on an unforgettable journey into the heart of heroism with ‘Beau Geste.’
HISTORY CLASSICS
Title: Beau Geste
Author: P C Wren
ISBN: 9781800720282
Extent: 352
RRP: £9.99. Rights: World
A story of the Geste brothers - Beau, Digby, and John - as they join the French Foreign Legion to escape a cloud of suspicion surrounding the theft of a valuable family jewel.
As they navigate the harsh realities of military life, the brothers find themselves thrust into a treacherous world of desert warfare, deadly adversaries, and hidden secrets In the heart of the desert The Geste brothers face unimaginable challenges that test the limits of their courage and resilience.
Bound by an unbreakable bond, they confront the brutalities of war and the enigmatic figure known as ‘The Blue Water’ with unwavering determination As the truth behind the stolen jewel and the mysterious disappearance of another legionnaire slowly unravel, the Geste brothers find themselves entangled in a web of deception and treachery With danger lurking at every turn, they must summon their inner strength and confront the ultimate question of honour.
Title: Captain Blood
Author: Rafael Sabatinni
ISBN: 9781800720312
Extent: 320
RRP: £9.99. Rights: World
Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician who had traded his past life as a sailor and a soldier for a quiet life tending to his garden and patients in Somerset, England. He attends to the wounds of rebels injured in the Battle of Sedgemoor during the Monmouth Rebellion and is soon arrested for treason.
While he did not actually participate in the rebellion and merely did what he felt he must, he is tried and convicted nonetheless. The sentence for treason is death, but King James II has the sentence commuted and instead sells Dr. Blood and his fellow rebels into slavery in the Caribbean. Dr. Blood continues to demonstrate his bravery and decency after he is bought by the cruel Colonel Bishop and takes advantage of a raid by Spanish forces to escape his new owner. Dr. Blood acquires a ship and quickly becomes the most successful pirate in the Caribbean, ultimately triumphing over his enemies and misfortune.
RAFAEL SABATINI
CAPTAIN BLOOD
Captain Blood remains a gripping and entertaining tale of pirates and high sea adventures.
John Dalberg-Acton
TITLES TO COME
Beau Sabreur by PC Wren
The Reluctant King by William Vaughan Wilkins
Baron’s Hostage by Geoffrey Trease
Bows Against The Barons by Geoffrey Trease
The Yearling by Marjorie Keenan Rawlings
Fire On The Wind by Geoffrey Trease
The Cross and the Sword by Warwick Deeping
Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger
The Rose in Splendour Leslie Berringer
The Flight Of The Heron by D K Broster
The Gleam In The North by D K Broster
The Dark Mile by D K Broster
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