Gordon Doherty

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Gordon Doherty
Doherty at Hattusa in 2019
Born	20 February 1978 (1978-02-20) (age 48) Glasgow, UK
Occupation	Novelist
Period	2011–present
Website
gordondoherty.co.uk

Gordon Doherty is a Scottish historical novelist whose works centre mainly on Classical Antiquity.

Graduating from university with a degree in Physics, Gordon pursued a career in the science and technology sector. In his spare time, he studied history voraciously, and began working on his first Legionary novel - set in the late Roman Empire on the cusp of the Great Migration that would see many tribes including the Huns arrive at the empire's doorstep. Launched in 2011 during the self-publishing boom, Legionary proved to be a great success, and a launch pad for Gordon's writing career.^[1] He has gone on to write over twenty further novels,^[2] set in the Roman Empire, Byzantium,^[3] Classical Greece and the Bronze Age. These have been released worldwide both independently and through publishers like Penguin,^[4] Head of Zeus,^[5] and Canelo, and his works have been translated into more than seventeen different languages along the way.^[6] Gordon now writes full-time and is represented by Watson, Little Ltd Literary Agency. He lives near the ruins of the Antonine Wall.

• Eagles in the Desert (2020)

1. Legionary (2011)
2. Viper of the North (2012)
3. Land of the Sacred Fire (2013)
4. The Scourge of Thracia (2015)
5. Gods & Emperors (2015)
6. Empire of Shades (2017)
7. The Blood Road (2018)
8. Dark Eagle (2020)
9. The Emperor's Shield (2023)

1. Born in the Borderlands (2011)
2. Rise of the Golden Heart (2013)
3. Island in the Storm (2014)

1. Son of Ishtar (2019)
2. Dawn of War (2020)
3. Thunder at Kadesh (2020)
4. The Crimson Throne (2021)
5. The Shadow of Troy (2021)
6. The Dark Earth (2022)

(with Simon Turney)

1. Sons of Rome (2020)
2. Masters of Rome (2021)
3. Gods of Rome (2021)

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

• Rubicon (2019) (with Nick Brown, Ruth Downie, Richard Foreman, Alison Morton, Anthony Riches, Antonia Senior, Peter Tonkin and L J Trafford)

• Author's official website