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Five Favourites: Roman Temples

Five Favourites: Roman Temples

Continuing our series of Five Favourites, the acclaimed novelist picks his favourite Roman temples.
Simon Turney

5. Trajan’s Kiosk One of the most surprising of all Roman temples lies on an island in Lake Nasser, upper Egypt. At Philae a complex of temples had grown for half a millennium before Rome controlled the land, but under the emperors the complex was expanded, rebuilt...

Simon Turney

Simon Turney

The prolific and bestselling author of historical fiction talks about his career and interests.
Simon Turney

Simon Turney, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? The majority of my books are set within the Roman empire. Rome has been my love and my focus since I first visited Hadrian’s Wall at the age of 6. I first wrote Roman fiction in an...

Simon Turney

Simon Turney

Having spent much of his childhood visiting historic sites with his grandfather, Simon Turney fell in love with the Roman heritage of the region, beginning with the world famous Hadrian’s Wall.
Simon Turney

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Sons of Rome, by Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty

Sons of Rome, by Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty

The first in the Rise of Emperors series is set in the twilight of the Roman Empire, in the 3rd century AD.
Peter Tonkin

Sons of Rome by Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty. The first thing that strikes the reader at the outset of this masterful novel is that two distinct voices narrate it. Not only are these the voices of the two protagonists Maxentius and Constantine, friends in boyhood,...