The Marius Mules series has been running for over ten years now. I’m not sure when I first came across it, but I’ve enjoyed…
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I read Dissolution – the first book in the Matthew Shardlake series – some time ago, and it left me somewhat ambivalent. A good…
Vespasian is one of the more appealing Roman emperors. Emerging after the volatile ‘year of the four emperors’, we know surprisingly little about him. This,…
I have read several books about the Romanovs over the years, mainly individual biographies. Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas II. Some of these…
Simon Turney is one of my ‘go to’ authors for great stories set in the ancient world – real or imagined. He is a great…
A memoir is a curious thing. Every one is written for a slightly different reason; to cash in on passing fame, to airbrush history, sometimes…
I love a fictional series; for me there is nothing like seeing characters develop over time. When writing a single novel, the author has to…
History set in the ancient world is very popular, and there are a huge number of authors for enthusiasts to choose from. In my experience…