The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Richard Foreman, Firstly, can you tell us about Never Surrender? Never Surrender is the third and final title in a series of books which I've curated. Each collection contains novellas and short stories linked to series I've written. As I mentioned in the introduction...
Derek Birks, The Last of the Romans is set in the dying days of the Roman Empire. What was it about this time that interests you, as there’s so much that is seemingly unknown? I’ve always had an interest in the fifth century perhaps because it was such a turbulent...
Allan Martin’s protagonist, Chief Inspector Jüri Hallmets from Death in Tallin, returns to solve a new crime in the sequel to Death in Tallinn, Winter Blood. Martin crafts vibrant characters and settings, throwing the reader into the thick of pre-World War Two...
Augustus: Son of Rome, about the young Octavius Caesar journeying to Rome after hearing of his great uncle’s assassination, was your breakthrough book. It was a huge hit on kindle, leading a wave of other novelists to score hits in the genre and period. Can you tell...
Prince Rupert the Devil In September 1642, a month before the first major battle of the English Civil War, twenty-two-year-old Prince Rupert and his younger brother Maurice arrived at Worcester to escort a convoy of valuables to their uncle the king. The princes were...
Richard Foreman, Besieged is the second book in your fabulous The First Crusade series, could you tell us a little about it and what inspired you to write them? After finishing of the Spies of Rome series I decided to return to the medieval period, having enjoyed...
Gallipoli Conspiracy Captain Reginald ‘Blinker’ Hall, the Director of British Naval Intelligence, launched an operation to bribe members of the Ottoman Government into making peace during the First World War. Hall hoped that would open the Dardanelles Strait to the...
In his debut thriller, The Perfect Corpse, Giles Milton combines his mastery of strong narratives and his attention to historical detail to produce a page-turner as gripping as the best of Robert Harris. When a frozen corpse is found in Greenland ice — assumed to be...
At the beginning of A Reluctant Assassin, by John Pilkington, we are introduced to the novel’s protagonist, Will Revill. This starts a sense of intrigue that continues throughout the novel, as the reader is left clues about Revill’s past role in the military, and what...
On the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, Captain John Tonkin and Lieutenant Richard Crisp parachuted into occupied France at the helm of an SAS troop tasked with preventing German reinforcements from being brought to the Normandy beachheads. Despite initial successes,...
