Alexander: Child of a Dream

A huge international bestseller, Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Manfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece.

Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? A boy, born to a great king - Philip of Macedon - and his sensuous queen, Olympias, Alexander became a young man of immense, unfathomable potential. Under the tutelage of the great Aristotle and with the friendship of Ptolemy and Hephaestion, he became the mightiest and most charismatic warrior, capable of subjugating the known world to his power.

This marvellous novel of one of history's greatest characters and his quest to conquer the civilised world.