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My ‘Roman’ garden

Gardening and nosing around other people’s gardens are two of my favourite hobbies; my own is designed on Roman lines and I even have a Roman herb garden. You’ll know that I often mention gardens, plants and flowers in the Roma Nova books; Carina has the key to a walled […]

How to build an alternative history story

Romans in the 21st century? Possibly provocative, but a perfectly feasible venture into alternative history fiction. How do you do this with no historical foundation?

Setting a story in the past or in another country is already a challenge. But if you invent the country and need to meld it with history that the reader […]

Time and its alternative

Time – a strange thing, mysterious even.

Past time could be yesterday or fifty years ago. Present time which we bumble through now is over in a nanosecond. Future time both fascinates and scares us.

But what if time wasn’t quite what we think it is? What if we had made different choices at various […]