Anton Gill Books in Order

Gill charts the rise of Boy George and Culture Club at the moment they became pop phenomena. It captures the band's image, music, and fame while the 1980s are still unfolding around them.

A schoolboy disappears on his way home, leaving fear, rumor, and frantic searching behind. This short, tense story turns an ordinary journey into a mystery about how quickly a life can vanish.

A witty guide to the customs, language, and rituals that shape life at Oxford and Cambridge. Gill mixes observation and humor with the social codes that make both places feel baffling from the outside.

A friendly, detailed guide to croquet that covers the game's history, rules, and tactics. It is built for newcomers, but there is plenty here for players who want to sharpen their strategy.

Rather than ending with liberation, this oral history asks what came after the camps. Gill listens to survivors rebuilding lives, making homes, and carrying memories that never really left.

Gill travels across Eastern Europe and records a region in political and cultural transition. It is part travel book, part report from places still living with the weight of recent history.

After the fall of Akhenaten, disgraced former scribe Huy is asked to investigate tomb robbing and death threats. His first case draws him into priestly power struggles and the darker corners of ancient Egypt.

This portrait of Berlin between the wars tracks a city alive with art, nightlife, violence, and political fracture. Gill shows how brilliance and instability lived side by side before the Nazi takeover.

In Thebes, Huy is asked to investigate the murders of young women linked to powerful men from the old regime. The case pulls him deep into fear, memory, and unfinished business after Akhenaten's fall.

Tutankhamun is dead after a suspicious hunting accident, and Egypt faces another dangerous succession. Huy must navigate murder, grief, and court politics while the future of the kingdom hangs in the balance.

This history follows the small, brave minority of Germans who resisted Hitler from within their own country. Gill shows how students, churchmen, officials, and officers pushed back at terrible risk.

Now back in royal service, Huy answers a plea from Ankhesenamon after a run of near-fatal 'accidents' in the south. His journey to Meroe uncovers deceit, ambition, and danger at the edge of Egypt's power.

Gill retells the Stalag Luft III breakout with the pace of a thriller and the weight of history. Contributions from survivors and families keep the focus on courage, planning, and the human cost.

Gill examines the ways sex, race, and power worked together across the British Empire. It is a sharp look at private desire, public rule, and the social myths that helped empire hold together.

Set in Donegal at the start of the Great Famine, this story follows one family as blight, eviction, and anger close in. Private loyalties and public disaster push the Phelans toward open resistance.

Gill tells the restless life of William Dampier, pirate, explorer, and naturalist. It is a portrait of a man pulled between buccaneering, curiosity, and the urge to keep sailing farther.

After Tutankhamun's death, Huy is drawn back into royal intrigue when a servant's affair turns deadly. The case leads him through jealousy, politics, and the private dangers of the court.

This nonfiction study looks at the secret weapons Nazi Germany hoped would change the war. Gill and Gary Hyland explore the science, ambition, and late-war desperation behind those plans.

Huy travels to a Mediterranean port to find his missing seventeen-year-old son. Instead he is pulled into the savage murder of a high priest, and a city full of secrets.

This biography follows Peggy Guggenheim from heiress to daring collector and modern art patron. Gill tracks her loves, feuds, and restless eye for art, alongside the loneliness that shadowed her life.

Based on the television series, this book looks at six vanished species and the science behind their disappearance. It mixes natural history with exploration, climate, and humanity's long impact on the living world.

Part biography, part city portrait, this book follows Michelangelo and the making of David in turbulent Florence. Gill ties art to politics, patronage, religion, and the pressure of living through the Renaissance.

A clear introduction to ancient Egypt for younger readers, covering rulers, religion, daily life, and belief. Gill brings the world of pharaohs and ordinary people into focus without losing the fun.

Written as a companion to the documentary series, this guide helps readers trace family history across the former British Empire. It mixes practical research advice with the bigger stories of migration, service, and empire.

A practical genealogy guide for readers who want to push their family tree far beyond the basics. Gill explains how to use records, archives, and context to trace ancestors back toward Tudor times.

Gill traces Babylon from its earliest dynasties through Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar. It is a lively history of power, city life, belief, and the world that grew around one of antiquity's greatest capitals.

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, young Ezio Auditore sets out to avenge his murdered family. His search for justice pulls him into the secret world of the Assassins, and into a web of power, corruption, and conspiracy.

Rome is broken, and the Borgia hold it in a tight grip. Ezio must rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood, outwit enemies within and without, and take the fight to Cesare before Italy falls completely under Templar control.

This is the Titanic story from the shipyard outwards, not just the night of the sinking. Gill looks at the people, engineering, and ambition that built the liner and helped turn it into legend.

Older and more reflective, Ezio follows Altaïr's trail from Masyaf to Constantinople in search of answers. What he finds is another Templar plot, and the last great test of his life as an Assassin.

Niccolò Polo finally tells the hidden story of Altaïr, from his early trials to his war with the Templars. It is a life shaped by duty, loss, and one devastating betrayal.

Told through Haytham Kenway's journals, this novel uncovers the family history behind the American Revolution. It gives Connor's world a darker edge, with betrayal, divided loyalties, and a war that cuts straight through blood ties.

After archaeologists uncover Enrico Dandolo's grave in Istanbul, the team disappears and leaves behind only a coded key. Interpol operatives Jack and Laura race to stop an old Templar secret from turning deadly again.

In the Golden Age of Piracy, Edward Kenway chases fortune and fame across the Caribbean. His swagger draws him into the older, deadlier struggle between Assassins and Templars.

A murdered map dealer and rumors of a vast new source of gold send Jack Marlow into the field. The trail leads from modern financial panic to Sir Walter Raleigh and the legend of El Dorado.

In 1944, detective Max Hoffman is ordered to investigate the failed plot to kill Hitler. As Berlin closes in around him, every lead becomes a test of loyalty, fear, and survival.

Paris is tearing itself apart in 1789, and Arno Dorian is driven by grief and revenge. His bond with Élise pulls him into a revolution where love, politics, and the Assassin-Templar war collide.

A brisk life of the man who founded the SAS, from restless young adventurer to desert raider. Gill focuses on Stirling's nerve, imagination, and the wartime ideas behind one of Britain's most famous special forces units.

Victorian London is being reshaped by the first underground railway when a corpse turns up at the dig. Deep undercover, Henry Green must fight the Templars from the shadows before the city is lost.

In peaceful Siwa, teenage Bayek is left with questions when his father departs without warning. His search for answers becomes a dangerous journey into duty, grief, and the forces threatening his homeland.