The Roman Mysteries: The Thieves of Ostia
Book 1
$16.56
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2001
Summary
The first in Caroline Lawrence’s internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look.
Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people’s homes, and why.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842550205 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842550209 |
| Author: | Caroline Lawrence |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2001 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The Roman Mysteries |
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“This was a very exciting and intriguing book - I couldn’t put it down!”
This was a very exciting and intriguing book I couldn’t put it down! - Megan Whiteman (aged 11)
About The Author
Caroline Lawrence
Caroline Lawrence is American. She lives with her husband by the river in London and is active as a speaker in schools and at book festivals. She took part in the British Museum’s POMPEII LIVE event, giving talks that were streamed to schools all over the UK, and she is the winner of the 2009 CLASSICS ASSOCIATION PRIZE for ‘a significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics’. In addition to the 17 novels in the ROMAN MYSTERIES sequence, Caroline Lawrence has written five spin-off titles, all of which have contributed to total UK sales in excess of 1 million copies.
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