A.K. Oxford

A.K. Oxford writes historical novels on the grand scale — from the ziggurats of Gilgamesh's Uruk to the corridors of Machiavelli's Florence. Eighteen titles span four thousand years: empires rising and rotting, poets writing against power, poisoners in silk, and above all the women history tried to forget, restored to the center of their own stories. Oxford's method is total immersion — the food, the coinage, the prayers — in service of characters who feel startlingly modern. For readers who want their history with blood in it.