Townsend, Solitaire – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:54:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Townsend, Solitaire – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Godstorm https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/godstorm/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=53041 GODSTORM -- an epic fantasy that is Red Rising meets Circe with a feminist twist. In a petrol-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow, a gladiatrix turned governess must rescue the child she has loved as her own, a girl who could tear down the world.

]]> ‘This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world… The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure’ Kim Stanley-Robinson

‘A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power’ Ruth Downie

A Female Gladiator’s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires

In an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow – a gladiatrix turned governess – must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.

When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she’d sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.

Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.

Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer-or risk everything for the child who might call her ‘mother.’

She is the Sword.

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