Gillian Bradshaw Books in Order

Before becoming Arthur's celebrated warrior, Gwalchmai struggles to define himself between his father's contempt and his sorceress mother's influence. His journey toward independence brings him close to darkness, forcing choices that will shape the hero later remembered as Gawain.

Serving Arthur with a magical sword and extraordinary horse, Gwalchmai seeks the woman he wronged and lost. His practical servant Rhys accompanies him, while the return of his mother Morgawse threatens to turn his past against the kingdom he defends.

As enemies undermine Arthur's kingdom from within, Gwynhwyfar's loyalty faces its most painful test. A desperate personal decision threatens the life she has built with the king, while Gwalchmai and their allies confront a realm moving toward collapse.

Denied medical training because she is a woman, Charis disguises herself as a eunuch and studies in Alexandria. Religious conflict drives her into further exile, where military service and captivity challenge both her vocation and the identity she has concealed.

In sixth-century Constantinople, John, son of Diodoros of Bostra, gains the patronage of Empress Theodora. His new connection draws him into the intrigues of the imperial palace, where access to power brings him into a complicated political world.

Demetrias, an enslaved silk weaver in Tyre, discovers a conspiracy against Emperor Theodosius II and his sister Pulcheria. Pressured to help the plotters, she must find a way to expose them while protecting her family from the consequences.

A young Bactrian princess, Heliokleia, is married to the ruler of Ferghana. Trapped in a mismatched union, she realizes that her strongest bond is with her husband's son, Itaz, placing love in conflict with her marriage.

Aristeas discovers that the Arimaspians and their witch queen intend to destroy the Issedones. Determined to help his friends, he becomes involved in a struggle against their powerful enemies in a world shaped by Greek myth.

Sarmatian commander Ariantes leads his horsemen to Roman Britain under a peace agreement. Distrusted by Romans and his own men, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens both peoples and forces him to weigh loyalty against survival.

Archimedes leaves his studies in Alexandria to support his ailing father in a Syracuse threatened by Rome. Building military machines brings recognition, romance, and political complications, while his deepest commitment remains to the possibilities of mathematics.

Paul Anderson cannot remember his work for Stellar Research. Disturbing fragments of a secret project begin breaking through, forcing him to confront a past whose concealed experiments threaten his understanding of himself and his sanity.

Val Thornham received an experimental brain treatment as a child and now faces suspicion that she could become dangerously unstable. As unfamiliar music fills her mind, she must confront a system that treats her possible talent as a public threat.

Abducted from her Norman priory to the Breton court, Marie resists the future others plan for her. When the knight Tiarnán disappears after his wife's betrayal, Marie must uncover his supernatural secret and find a way to save him.

This alternative history imagines Caesarion surviving the order for his assassination. Hiding his identity, the son of Caesar and Cleopatra journeys through a world that once promised him power, discovering what remains when titles and privilege disappear.

Young Alexandrian Hermogenes travels to Rome to collect a debt owed to his late father. A powerful debtor's resistance draws him into political plots and danger, testing whether Roman citizenship can truly secure justice for an outsider.

Dr Janet Morley brings a deaf Nepalese boy to England for experimental treatment intended to help him communicate. A burglary and the murders of the researchers draw her into an investigation involving government interest and disturbing questions about the work.

In Constantinople in 672, former concubine Anna is raising her daughter as an Arab attack approaches. An alchemist developing a defensive weapon enters their lives, bringing buried family secrets and unexpected feelings into a city preparing for siege.

Alison Greenall travels to California hoping to know the father who abandoned her as a baby. Instead, she encounters a break-in at his research laboratory, political hostility, and allegations that force her to question whom she can trust.

Facing a terminal diagnosis, Antonia Lanchester exposes her employer’s connection to illegal logging and an atrocity in Borneo. Powerful interests respond, forcing her to fight ruthless opponents while the effects of her illness undermine her ability to protect herself.

African cavalry scout Memnon accompanies Emperor Septimius Severus’s campaign in northern Britain. After rescuing members of the imperial entourage, he becomes entangled in a struggle within the ruling household, where friendship may be as vital to survival as military skill.

A clash with pirates draws Rhodian helmsman Isokrates into a conflict beyond the battlefield. Among those rescued is a king’s mistress carrying dangerous information, and her flight toward a rival ruler threatens to ignite a wider war.

After wartime violence and rejection by her sweetheart, Lucy seeks a fresh start with relatives in London. Their financial troubles force her into publishing, where the upheaval of 1647 brings opportunities for independence, love, and a new kind of life.

Renewed civil war separates Lucy and Jamie Hudson as he returns reluctantly to the army. In London, she prints radical newsbooks and evades censorship, supporting democratic reform while hoping for peace that will allow them to reunite.

Magical guardian Marin discovers that a renegade sorcerer possesses venom from serpent-people believed extinct. Seeking help from a neighboring duke, she faces manipulated authorities, threatened war, and unsettling truths about the creatures whose power once sustained an empire.

Scholar Jaketta's research becomes urgently relevant when her patron survives an assassination attempt. Accompanying him into a kingdom divided between king and duke, she must draw on her knowledge of serpent-people amid magical intrigue and the threat of civil war.

Marin accompanies a duke into a country that executes magicians after a warning of an assassination plot. To secure help, she must break an ancient enchantment protecting a collection of books, while danger grows around the visiting delegation.

Exiled reporter Idareh investigates a duke imprisoned for protecting serpent-people condemned as monsters. As he uncovers a different truth, publishing it risks the wrath of powerful enemies and exposure of the secret hidden in his own past.

When Alex Marsh tries to feed a sickly swan in his garden, its bite draws him into an interplanetary conflict. Outlaw aliens want Earth’s weapons, and Alex must help stop them to protect his family and other worlds.

Shapeshifting alien officer Tiva and fifteen-year-old Alex Marsh try to stop interstellar criminals buying weapons on Earth. A supposed holiday in southern France becomes an undercover operation, with dangerous creatures and human drug traffickers threatening their mission.