I love being a Roman writer and being seen as one. Imagine how delighted I was to be included in a list that my writing friend Ben Kane gave to a reader seeking Roman fiction authors. Last year at the Historical Novel Society conference, I had the privilege of taking part in a workshop with […]
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Lupercales, Andrea Camassei (1602-1649), Prado Museum
Mid February, the time of roses and chocolate when romance is in the air… And isn’t it the quaint descendant of the old Roman festival of Lupercalia?
Er, no. ‘Quaint’ is definitely not the word.
In AD 495, Christian bishop of Rome, Gelasius, finally managed to […]
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When I first picked up Robert Harris’ Fatherland in my local independent bookshop in 1992, I was fascinated by the concept of ‘what if Nazi Germany had won the war?’ What would have been the alternate path of history?
Fatherland was intrinsically a political thriller. In 1992, the whole of Europe was attempting to realign […]
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