The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
In this sequel to The Wall, Douglas Jackson takes his readers on a rollercoaster ride through lands riven by conflict – both political and military. He journeys from northern Britannia across to the Saxon homelands and from there southwards into the troubled Roman...
When I began writing my latest novel, The Barbarian, the second book in the Marcus Flavius Victor series, the barbarian I had in mind was Flavius Stilicho, the Roman general who grasped the Empire’s reins in the wake of the death of the Emperor Theodosius in 395....
Blood, intrigue and lust for power dominate this tale - and that’s just among the Romans. Throw in the squabbling tribes north of the Wall and you have an explosive recipe for carnage. Marcus Flavius Victor is the Lord of the Wall, charged with defending northern...
Douglas Jackson, I’ve very much enjoyed reading The Wall – one of your very best books I would say. As one who has written about Britain in the fifth century, I appreciate the problems of trying to represent life in that shadowy period. How did you go about...
What kind of historical heretic would even ask that question? Of course, Hadrian’s Wall is a masterpiece, an extension of Imperial power that has seized the imagination over almost two millennia, and is still recognised today as one of the wonders of the world. A...
