>>34289
It's historical Fiction, he's English but he could have some other background.

This doesn't have vivid sex scenes but often characters will be doing rude things while discussing other things, it's pointless and annoying.

>It's liek a basic requirement in these fresh contemporary books to include a few pages of it

Yeah, it feels like it is made to be more contemporary in other ways too. I haven;t read much that has come out in the last few years but I noticed this book often doesn't use paragraphs to enter a new scene, the next scene will flow on in the next sentence even if it takes part later and in a different place, the pacing in general seems much faster.

>Is it a low fantasy?

It's about the breakup of Alexander the great's Empire. Most characters are devious and cruel but that's just the way it was, most of the events where they behave this way are based on historical accounts.