HEROICA - Why three stories?

HEROICA has a strange origin. Revolution?, the first part, started as a little story I wanted to write for myself – an indulgence. Then it grew and grew. The heroine, Carina, goes off piste as usual (see the first four Roma Nova thrillers!) and her investigation became ever more complicated and the ‘short story’ became […]

Women's history? Or herstory?

Photo of women history graduates

‘The Monstrous Regiment of Women’

Wikipedia defines women’s history as follows, ‘Women’s history is the study of the role that women have played in history, together with the methods needed to study women. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman’s rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual […]

When an amoral populist takes power

Man's face and covers of INSURRECTIO and RETALIO

Caius Tellus

The morning after the power grab by Caius Tellus on the night of fires in INSURRECTIO, people woke to find the proclamation below. The new regime had pinned it on noticeboards, on the doors of public buildings and in the forum in Roma Nova city.

By order of First Consul Caius […]