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Tony Blair and the Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, didn’t have a part a year ago when I was first writing about The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar. Now that the paperback is coming out, it seems a bit easier to write about the rather strange roles that they both ...
Marcus Licinius Crassus was famous for a boast. No one should be considered rich, said the richest Roman of his time, unless he could finance an army from his own income. Twice he lived up to that boast, the first time against Spartacus gaining himself only ingratitude, the second time beside ...
The Emperor Vitellius was not a man of whom Roman historians have ever been proud. He was one of four emperors in 69 CE, the year after the death of Nero, and was famed mainly for eating massive helpings of seafood. Since his nasty death by a thousand cuts, slowly pushed down from the Capitol ...
Author Interview
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?Roman writers were with me as an Essex teenager in the sixties and have stayed with me ever since. At sixteen I had two big passions, writing about jazz for The Daily Telegraph ( I had won a competition against very few entrants) and about Julius Caesar and ...