BOOK 1 IN THE ICONIC ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH

Best historical novelist - Stephen King

A master storyteller - Sunday Times

Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared - The Times

No one does adventure quite like Smith - Daily Mirror

IN THE LAND OF GOLD

WHERE THE WEAK PHARAOH RULES

A NEW CIVILISATION WILL BE BORN

Taita is a humble slave; an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering, as well as the keeper of important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter Lostris is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her, and swiftly finds himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom of Egypt is divided, and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all . . .

Book 1 in the Ancient Egyptian series from the master historical adventure writer, Wilbur Smith. Book 2 in the series, The Seventh Scroll, is available now.

And don’t miss Wilbur Smith’s return to Egypt in The New Kingdom sequence:

The New Kingdom

Titans of War

Testament

All available now.

And the new book in the series, House of Two Pharaohs, coming August 2025.