The morning after the power grab by Caius Tellus on the night of fires in INSURRECTIO, people woke to find the proclamation below.  The new regime had pinned it on noticeboards, on the doors of public buildings and in the forum in Roma Nova city. By order of First Consul Caius Tellus Due to the national crisis, the provisional government will apply the following emergency orders for the next 30 days.

Kylara Vatta from Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon Eowyn, Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Carina Mitela, PERFIDITAS, Alison Morton When I started pounding on my keyboard, I just wanted to tell a story...

I’ve written before about my interest in the history of women office workers, and how women came to dominate secretarial and clerical jobs. (See ‘Being A Secretary’ .) As part of the research for the ...

The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

Is it better to put a title at the beginning of each chapter in your book or should you merely put a simple number? I’ve never used chapter titles when writing my own books although I’ve absorbed them when reading other books. What do chapter titles do? They can act as promises of what’s to come in the next few pages, be it a potential escalation (The Reading of the Will), an emotional disaster like loss or dread (The First Betrayal), or perhaps they point to an ironic promise that primes the reader for subversion (

As in previous years, reading books has given me enormous pleasure. Let's be honest, I've been a voracious reader since I was five. This year, I published a new thriller, Double Stakes, the sequel to Double Identity and Double Pursuit  plus participated in a number of events and sat down to draft the next Roma Nova book. Enough of me, the writer; here I’m writing here as a reader. This is not a beauty contest nor a selection. I chose the books in the image totally at random. The list below contains books I’ve read this year and enjoyed.

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As in previous years, reading books has given me enormous pleasure. Let's be honest, I've been a voracious reader since I was five. This year, I published a new thriller, Double Stakes, the sequel to Double Identity and Double Pursuit  plus participated in a number of events and sat down to draft the next Roma Nova book. Enough of me, the writer; here I’m writing here as a reader. This is not a beauty contest nor a selection. I chose the books in the image totally at random. The list below contains books I’ve read this year and enjoyed.