Geraint Jones Books in Order

If you want the Roman novels in publication order: Blood Forest → Siege → Legion → Traitor → Rebel
If you want the Corvus story in timeline order: Legion → Traitor → Rebel → Blood Forest → Siege
If you want his real-life war writing: Brothers in Arms → D-Day
If you want the modern thrillers: Sugarman → Lost In The Fire

Geraint Jones grew up in Wales in a middle-class family, with a father who worked as an estate agent and a mother who was a pharmacist. Nobody at home pushed him toward the army, but military history was always somewhere in the background. Both of his grandfathers had served, and from a young age he was drawn to stories of soldiers, duty, and war.

He was the kind of kid who turned his bedding into trenches.

Jones later studied History and Politics at Lancaster University, though by his own account he was more interested in reading about war than sticking closely to the syllabus. He first tried the officer route as a teenager, did not get through the selection board on that attempt, and joined the reserves instead. When the Iraq War began, the idea of taking a slower path into the military disappeared. He wanted to serve, and he wanted to do it for real, so he moved into the infantry.

That choice shaped the rest of his writing life. Jones served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his second Iraq tour he received a General Officer Commanding's Commendation for bravery under pressure. After Afghanistan he was selected for the Reconnaissance Platoon, and when he eventually left the army he spent time protecting commercial shipping from piracy off the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria. His memoir Brothers in Arms grew directly out of that world, especially his 2009 Afghanistan tour, the friendships inside a platoon, and the long shadow of PTSD once the fighting stops.

Writing became the way he kept going.

Some of Jones's best-known fiction lives in Roman history, but it does not feel polished or distant. Blood Forest, Siege, Legion, Traitor, and Rebel all focus on soldiers at ground level, men marching, eating, joking, panicking, and trying to stay alive while empires make grand decisions above them. Readers who like him tend to respond to that mix of battlefield detail, barracks banter, and moral unease. Rome is powerful in these books, but never clean.

He has also moved beyond Roman battlefields. The thriller Sugarman, written with Vincent Vargas, follows a border agent pulled into a brutal revenge story, while Lost In The Fire shifts into modern crime fiction in Las Vegas. On the nonfiction side, Jones has become increasingly known as a military historian as well as a novelist. D-Day brings together first-hand accounts of the Normandy landings and the fighting that followed, and Voices of Victory continues that approach later in the Second World War.

Across very different books, the same questions keep turning up.

What does war do to ordinary people? What holds a group together when fear, grief, and anger start pulling it apart? And what happens after the mission, when the noise drops away and a person has to live with memory? Jones writes about those things with the eye of somebody who has been inside that world, but he also makes room for humor, boredom, loyalty, and the odd nonsense that soldiers use to get through the day.

He now writes full time from his home in Wales and also hosts the Veteran State of Mind and War Story podcasts, where he talks with veterans and explores military experience from different angles. That feels like a natural extension of his books. Whether he is writing about Roman legionaries, British infantrymen in Helmand, or young men landing in Normandy, Jones keeps coming back to the same human ground, pressure, friendship, courage, and the cost that follows.