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Hannibal

Literature & Fiction

Leckie, Ross

Contemporary

Abacus Books

In this, the sequel to his internationally acclaimed and best-selling historical novel HANNIBAL, Ross Leckie tells the epic story of Scipio Africanus.  Spanning six decades and three continents, SCIPIO is a riveting fictional memoir that charts the life of one of the great Roman leaders. Scipio's defeat of Hannibal at the battle of Zama was a pivotal victory which paved the way for Roman expansion.  His subsequent destruction of Antiochus at Magnesia and Philip V at Cynoscephalae helped to establish Rome's dominance of the world as they then knew it.  Despite all this Scipio remained a flawed character; a man whose blindness to his own weaknesses ultimately brought about his own downfall. Leckie brilliantly evokes the period in this superb historical novel.  The result is a gripping and moving tragedy, an account of one man's successes and failings, filtered through the eyes of his compassionate, wise and loyal friend.

Scipio

Genre Fiction

ABACUS +

(Completing Leckie's superb trilogy, Carthage tells the final chapter of the great Punic wars, the deadly rivalry between the bastard sons of Hannibal and Scipio, and the total destruction of the Carthaginian empire)

Carthage

Set in the second century B.C. Carthage recounts, after three hundred years of acrimony and two bitter wars, the final, fateful clash between the two superpowers of the ancient world--Rome and Carthage. Completing Leckie's superb trilogy, Carthage tells the final chapter of the great Punic wars, the deadly rivalry between the bastard sons of Hannibal and Scipio, and the total destruction of the Carthaginian empire. The breadth of Leckie's knowledge of the period coupled with his poetic prose style brings the classical world to life in a truly masterful manner.

Carthage: A Novel

Canongate Books Ltd.

Leckie presents a vivid recreation of the life of the great Carthagenian general; succeeding in bringing the warrior to life. Man as but a shadow of a dream.

Hannibal: A Novel

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Regnery Pub.

Now, from the author of the highly-acclaimed novel Hannibal (a History Book Club Selection), comes the second installment in an epic trilogy on the rise of Carthage and the rise of Rome.

Scipio Africanus: The Man Who Defeated Hannibal

British & Irish

Leckie presents a vivid recreation of the life of the great Carthagenian general; succeeding in bringing the warrior to life. man as but a shadow of a dream.

Gateway Books

Gravity’s Plumb Line is Ross Leckie’s third collection of poetry. It begins on the Saint John River, then moves out into neighbouring fields, woods and landscapes beyond. These poems bring the lushness of natural abundance in contact with the process of comprehending its intricacies. The collection’s opening series leaves from Little St. John Lake, travelling through Edmundston and Grand Falls, down through the heart of New Brunswick, into the Mactaquac Dam, through the city of Fredericton and out into the Atlantic at Saint John Harbour. With inventive language, interest and affection, Leckie marvels at the river’s shifting attitude through towns and cities, bridges, surrounding vegetation, cultural flavours, and the memories that surround his experience. In Grand Falls the poet imagines the town’s dreamlife, while in Hartland he recalls an afternoon spent on the covered bridge in the company of his father, and in Mactaquac he considers the process of writing in the presence of the dam that churns river into electricity. From the river Leckie moves outward, delighting in avian intellect, the shapes of trees, the density of ground. To each he brings sharp perceptions and an intriguing level of engagement with the process of conveying these perceptions. Readers are privy to missteps and moments of satisfaction as the poet hones his senses ever closer. In the forest Leckie draws out the elusive ice bird, as well as pine trees, sunlight, winter afternoons, iris and lady’s slipper, among others. Indoors, his eye trains on imported oranges and the journey of water from source to thirst. The title segment broadens into a distinctly musical cadence that hinges on wit, stimulating vocabulary, the occasional blues influence and solid rhythms. In “That Dirt Road,” Leckie replays the lilting repetition of childhood reluctance along a country road, while “Woke up This Morning” and “Bending the Blue Notes” draw from a more formal appreciation of the blues genre. In the final group of poems, Leckie re-envisions tenets of classical theatremimesis, hamartia, unity, character, spectacle, catharsis and six others. These concepts are transported out of doors and tested against woods, sky, garden, field, wind and pond. Seasons in the woods mimic the trials of human experience, and stars enact the downfall of a hero reaching beyond his means. In 12 brief poems Leckie locates the mainstays of human drama in the tumult of our environsa resounding conclusion in the poet’s stirring translations of life into art. “I think my poems capture the nimble movement of the perceptual act,” says Leckie, “but they are also meditations that transform the visible world into passionate thought. ‘Seeing is believing’. I work with lush metaphors to provoke associations that reverberate through what we know of self and other, of culture and politics. We can only know life by the way we walk through it, by the rhythms of our feet.” This 5 x 8-inch book is a smyth-sewn paperback bound in card stock with a letterpress-printed jacket. The text is printed offset on laid paper.

Gravity's Plumb Line

Poetry

Gaspereau Pr

"A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains." Such are the observations made and ill-gotten lessons learned in this fictional autobiographical narrative of breathtaking range and power. Ross Leckie not only presents a vivid re-creation of the great struggle of the Punic wars and the profoundly bloody battle for Rome, but also succeeds in bringing the almost mythical figure of Hannibal to life. Introspective, educated on the Greeks, Hannibal has never been presented quite like this. Written from Hannibal's perspective, this riveting, unique historical novel charts the rise and fall of the great Carthaginian general who came so close to bringing down Rome. A tragic chronicle of love and hate, heroism and cruelty, Hannibal is a dramatic and ultimately nourishing exploration of the inner life and epic consequences of one of humanity's greatest adventurers and most bloodthirsty leaders.

Canongate U.S.

An epic vision of one of history’s greatest adventurers, the almost mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on elephants over the Alps. In Ross Leckie's unforgettable recreation of the Punic wars, it is Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, who narrates the story, and who is carried by his all-consuming ambition through profoundly bloody battles against the great Roman armies of early empire. In a breathtaking chronicle of love and hate, heroism and cruelty, one of humanity's greatest adventurers is brought to life, and learns through suffering that man is but a shadow of a dream.

Hannibal: A Novel (Carthage Trilogy)

Canongate UK

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Hannibal

Scipio

Carthage

Carthage: A Novel

Hannibal: A Novel

Scipio Africanus: The Man Who Defeated Hannibal

Hannibal

Gravity's Plumb Line

Hannibal: A Novel

Hannibal: A Novel (Carthage Trilogy)