If I had the opportunity to hold that imaginary historical dinner party, I’ve always thought one of my picks would be Marcus Agrippa. Yes, Augustus…
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I have followed Robert Fabbri’s series about Vespasian with interest, as I’ve always found him to be one of the more appealing of Emperors. The…
This is the latest addition to Ian Mortimer’s ‘Time Traveller’s Guide’ series, so I already knew what to expect. Having read, and enjoyed, the earlier…
Regular readers will know that I am a lover of a good series. The author has so much more time to develop their main character…
At the end of the previous book in this series – Enemies at Home – Flavia Albia had been seriously ill, nursed initially by her…
Gaius Petreius Ruso is medicus to the Twentieth Legion in the north of Britannia. Having been involved in solving a murder or two in the…
This is the second book in the series Lindsey Davis has created featuring Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of her earlier hero, Falco. The first…
The first book in this series – Daughter of War – introduced us to Arnau de Vallbona, a Spanish knight who ended up as a…
Lindsey Davis put an end to her popular Falco series after twenty books. Perhaps a brave decision; perhaps the right one. After all, everything comes…
A new series from Simon Turney is always worth a second look. He is a prolific author of historical fiction, and has created some fine…