Time Present and Time Past

My second novel, An Accidental King , will be published by Crooked Cat Publications on 5th July 2013. Spanning the first five decades o...

My debut novel, Undreamed Shores , was published a year ago today. At the time it was available only as an e-book, but my publishers, Crooke...

In the week that sees the UK release of Baz Luhrmann's film, The Great Gatsby , it may be interesting to reflect on one of the works tha...

"Imagine Machiavelli's The Prince ," wrote Joseph Epstein, in The Wall Street Journal , "written not by an Italian theori...

Robert Graves's I, Claudius must have been one of the first adult historical novels I ever read. I was fourteen, I think, and had worke...

There is no shortage of fiction set in the Roman world, indeed one agent was heard to express the view, at a recent conference, that there w...

There are maps of pre-Roman Britain which show most of Hampshire, together with the western part of Sussex, in the hands of a tribe called t...