Join us for an evening with academic, author and broadcaster Alice Roberts as we celebrate the release of her new novel The Goddess Queen.
There was a moment, just over two thousand years ago, when the whole Mediterranean world could have been ruled by a woman.
The Roman Republic was crumbling, torn apart by rivalries. Egypt was a wellspring of wealth. But its rulers had squandered their advantage and ended up hopelessly indebted to the protection racket that called itself Rome. Now a woman, as Pharaoh, had a chance to reclaim what Egypt had lost, to forge an alliance which would save both Rome and Egypt.
Ancient history, high politics, sex and power collide in this dramatic story of the Egyptian queen who confronted and contested the power of Rome.
This is Cleopatra and Antonius as you’ve never seen them before, in the first novel from number one bestselling author Alice Roberts.
Professor Alice Roberts is an academic, author and broadcaster, making her TV debut on Channel 4’s Time Team 2001 and going on to write and present The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Ice Age Giants on BBC2. She has written several non-fiction books, including The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in 2015 and the Sunday Times bestselling Ancestors, Buried, Crypt and Domination.
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