The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Can you tell us a bit about the plot of Turpin's Rival? Even more than Turpin's Assassin, the novel reads like a revenge thriller. Having established Turpin in the first book, I wanted to up the pace and violence for the sequel. Turpin is as much an anti-hero as hero....
Dick Turpin is back. The notorious highwayman’s is brought to life again in Richard Foreman’s new novel, Turpin’s Rival. We follow Turpin on his mission to avenge his friend Tobias Vardy, who is killed by the ruthless outlaw, James Skinner. The pace and precision of...
The Great Gatsby Immersive Show Be transported back to the roaring twenties. Some people in the audience wore masks, perhaps worried about the tail end of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919. Many of the costumes on display were as colourful as the lighting. The wit was...
Sharpe's cavalry sword is still being sheathed into the guts of his enemies. Harper's volley gun is still reverberating like thunder. Wellington is still grumpy. The British army can still fire three shots a minute. And the word "bastard" still litters the air like...
You have written many bestselling novels set in both Ancient Rome and the medieval period. Dick Turpin, and Turpin's Assassin veers away from your usual spheres and paints a picture of 18th century England. How did you find writing about a different historical era,...
If not for such fierce competition (in the form of such works as Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Churchill: Walking with Destiny and Masters & Commanders) one might be able to unequivocally say that George III is the author's masterpiece. This biography teems with...
The bestselling novelist Richard Foreman, who usually writes about ancient Rome and the medieval period, brings the man and legend of Dick Turpin to life in the first book of a new, notable series, Turpin's Assassin. The book opens with an exciting highway robbery....
Dan Jones argues, if not proves, in his revelatory new book, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middles Ages, that the period made us. Good history doesn't necessarily need to be relevant, but more than most non-fiction titles this year Powers and Thrones will...
In short, Operation Mincemeat is a musical about the great deception by the Allies in WW2 to convince the Germans that British and American forces would land in Sardinia rather than Sicily, when advancing on Italy. The act of misdirection was achieved through the...
Five Books on Ancient Rome. 5. The Roman Revolution, by Ronald Syme. A powerful book, about power - and how Rome shifted from the Republic into the Empire. Syme is excellent on the detail, without ever being dull. His Augustus is as ruthless and ambitious as any...
