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The Drowning King by Emily Holleman
Ancient Egypt, 51 B.C. Sisters Arsinoe and Cleopatra face a devastating choice: to allow Rome’s army to siphon power from their ailing father, or to take matters-and the dynasty-into their own hands It’s the dawn of a new era for Egypt as Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy, are welcomed to the throne after their father’s […]
Historia Interviews: Antonia Senior
Antonia Senior talks to Elizabeth Fremantle about her new novel The Tyrant’s Shadow. The Tyrant’s Shadow follows on from the events of your previous novel Treason’s Daughter, was it always your intention to write more than one book with these characters? I had intended to write only one book. It was my then editor’s idea […]
Historia Interviews: Samuel Ferrer
Samuel Ferrer wrote his debut novel, The Last Gods of Indochine, in the bars of Bangkok, Saigon, Hanoi, the cafes of Laos, in the mountains of Sapa, and on location throughout Cambodia. Inspired by the real life of explorer, Henri Mouhot (1826-1881), the novel centres around Mouhot’s fictitious granddaughter and uses excerpts from the journal that […]
Historia Q&A: Nick Brown
Before becoming a novelist, Nick Brown worked as a teacher of both English and history. Book six in the Agent of Rome series, The Earthly Gods, was published in 2016 and is out now in paperback. (You can win a copy in our March Giveaway!) Nick is currently working on various projects including the seventh […]
Historia Interviews: Margaret George
Historical novelist Margaret George is well-known for her impeccably researched novels about such fascinating characters as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Cleopatra. As her latest book, The Confessions of Young Nero, launches in the UK, Catherine Hokin caught up with her to find out more about the eras and people which attract her and the […]
Arminius: The Limits of Empire by Robert Fabbri
A stunning stand-alone Roman epic historical from the author of the bestselling Vespasian series. One man’s greatest victory. Rome’s greatest defeat. A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic […]
Vikings: The Story So Far
As Vikings returns to our screens, Patricia Bracewell recaps the first four seasons. The very first episode of the television drama Vikings began in the year 793 A.D. on a corpse-strewn battlefield somewhere in the Eastern Baltic. Two warriors, filthy and bloody, slaughtered the last of their enemies before our eyes while, on a distant hill, […]