Ben Kane
@benkaneauthor.bsky.social
Irishman, former veterinarian, fulltime historical fiction author, rugby nut. Fundraiser for Combat Stress and Park in the Past. Over 1.5 million books sold in 15 countries. 11 or 12 (!) Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. Also at facebook.com/benkanebooks
Is there appetite out there for a crowdfunded novella this year?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Is there appetite out there for a crowdfunded novella this year?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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📅🍂 What's on in September 🍂
Including...
🎶 Rhyme and Storytimes
✍️ Author event with Ben Kane
🧑🎤 STREET! poetry competition
📚 September reads on BorrowBox
🌳 Special Collections Sunday: Trees
➕ ...and more!
📖 Read our latest library newsletter online here:
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Including...
🎶 Rhyme and Storytimes
✍️ Author event with Ben Kane
🧑🎤 STREET! poetry competition
📚 September reads on BorrowBox
🌳 Special Collections Sunday: Trees
➕ ...and more!
📖 Read our latest library newsletter online here:
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🍂 What's on in September 🍂
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September 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📅🍂 What's on in September 🍂
Including...
🎶 Rhyme and Storytimes
✍️ Author event with Ben Kane
🧑🎤 STREET! poetry competition
📚 September reads on BorrowBox
🌳 Special Collections Sunday: Trees
➕ ...and more!
📖 Read our latest library newsletter online here:
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Including...
🎶 Rhyme and Storytimes
✍️ Author event with Ben Kane
🧑🎤 STREET! poetry competition
📚 September reads on BorrowBox
🌳 Special Collections Sunday: Trees
➕ ...and more!
📖 Read our latest library newsletter online here:
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I'm a speaker @butserancientfarm.co.uk Bookfest on Sunday 19th October, talking about grimdark, fantasy and historical influences in a replica Anglo-Saxon mead hall! There'll also be writing workshops, music, crafts, food, shopping.
#books #fantasy #fantasybooks #grimdark #mythology #history
#books #fantasy #fantasybooks #grimdark #mythology #history
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm a speaker @butserancientfarm.co.uk Bookfest on Sunday 19th October, talking about grimdark, fantasy and historical influences in a replica Anglo-Saxon mead hall! There'll also be writing workshops, music, crafts, food, shopping.
#books #fantasy #fantasybooks #grimdark #mythology #history
#books #fantasy #fantasybooks #grimdark #mythology #history
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And the new book is available for pre order!
August 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And the new book is available for pre order!
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Grab one! 'Rome' (Kindle edition) by Ben Kane (@benkaneauthor.bsky.social) is just 99 cents today! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Rome: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller!
Amazon.com: Rome: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller! eBook : Kane, Ben: Books
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September 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Grab one! 'Rome' (Kindle edition) by Ben Kane (@benkaneauthor.bsky.social) is just 99 cents today! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Bit late to announce it, but Crusader is only 99p on the Amazon Kindle store until 31st August. Snap it up!
August 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bit late to announce it, but Crusader is only 99p on the Amazon Kindle store until 31st August. Snap it up!
Getting to the closing stages of A Land Aflame (Hannibal 4) & my mind is buzzing with ideas4 THE SECRET PROJECT, a novel I aim2start in Sept. Totally new time period. Amazing idea. Huge potential.
Can't say more, except I spent > £200 on textbooks just now!
Focus, Ben, focus. 😆
Can't say more, except I spent > £200 on textbooks just now!
Focus, Ben, focus. 😆
August 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Getting to the closing stages of A Land Aflame (Hannibal 4) & my mind is buzzing with ideas4 THE SECRET PROJECT, a novel I aim2start in Sept. Totally new time period. Amazing idea. Huge potential.
Can't say more, except I spent > £200 on textbooks just now!
Focus, Ben, focus. 😆
Can't say more, except I spent > £200 on textbooks just now!
Focus, Ben, focus. 😆
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Looking forward to seeing this @benkaneauthor.bsky.social, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
BBC News - Crime scene forensics help recreate hillfort siege
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BBC News - Crime scene forensics help recreate hillfort siege
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Crime scene forensics used to recreate British hillfort siege
A dramatic 3D walkthrough brings to life the historic events at Burnswark Hill in southern Scotland.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Looking forward to seeing this @benkaneauthor.bsky.social, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
BBC News - Crime scene forensics help recreate hillfort siege
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BBC News - Crime scene forensics help recreate hillfort siege
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King - the ebook - is just 99p at the moment in the UK!
Grab yourself a copy --->>>
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Grab yourself a copy --->>>
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July 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
King - the ebook - is just 99p at the moment in the UK!
Grab yourself a copy --->>>
www.amazon.co.uk/King-Ben-Kan...
Grab yourself a copy --->>>
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Slipcase editions and regular first editions of Rome are landing all over the place. Some very happy readers out there - and pets!
June 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Slipcase editions and regular first editions of Rome are landing all over the place. Some very happy readers out there - and pets!
The one man band has been going all day today.
52 copies of Rome signed, dedicated, packaged:
20 posted today, 32 to be posted tomorrow.
That leaves the 100 slipcase editions - still waiting on a delivery date for the slipcases. Thanks for your patience, all!
52 copies of Rome signed, dedicated, packaged:
20 posted today, 32 to be posted tomorrow.
That leaves the 100 slipcase editions - still waiting on a delivery date for the slipcases. Thanks for your patience, all!
May 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The one man band has been going all day today.
52 copies of Rome signed, dedicated, packaged:
20 posted today, 32 to be posted tomorrow.
That leaves the 100 slipcase editions - still waiting on a delivery date for the slipcases. Thanks for your patience, all!
52 copies of Rome signed, dedicated, packaged:
20 posted today, 32 to be posted tomorrow.
That leaves the 100 slipcase editions - still waiting on a delivery date for the slipcases. Thanks for your patience, all!
Go to Blue Sky, they said. Blue Sky is where it will all happen, they said. Everyone's migrating to Blue Sky.
Are they?
I know I don't post on here often, but when I do, it feels a bit like being in a giant aircraft hangar, shouting to people a very long way away...
Are they?
I know I don't post on here often, but when I do, it feels a bit like being in a giant aircraft hangar, shouting to people a very long way away...
May 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Go to Blue Sky, they said. Blue Sky is where it will all happen, they said. Everyone's migrating to Blue Sky.
Are they?
I know I don't post on here often, but when I do, it feels a bit like being in a giant aircraft hangar, shouting to people a very long way away...
Are they?
I know I don't post on here often, but when I do, it feels a bit like being in a giant aircraft hangar, shouting to people a very long way away...
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Venetian Heretic has been out a week. And as I am a big fan of @benkaneauthor.bsky.social I had to share this.
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Venetian Heretic has been out a week. And as I am a big fan of @benkaneauthor.bsky.social I had to share this.
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Fancy a slipcase, signed first edition of Rome, plus a genuine Roman coin?
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Fancy a slipcase, signed first edition of Rome, plus a genuine Roman coin?
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
Fancy a slipcase, signed first edition of Rome, plus a genuine Roman coin?
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Fancy a slipcase, signed first edition of Rome, plus a genuine Roman coin?
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
There will be 50.
There will also be 50 slipcases without the coin, and another 200 special edition hardbacks.
THEY ARE GOING SUPER FAST!
Check out the post on my author page on Facebook:
facebook.com/benkanebooks
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Author Ben Kane Discusses "Stormcrow: A Gripping and Epic Viking Adventure"
Ashland Public Library MA
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Ashland Public Library MA
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Author Ben Kane Discusses "Stormcrow: A Gripping and Epic Viking Adventure"
YouTube video by Ashland Public Library MA
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March 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Author Ben Kane Discusses "Stormcrow: A Gripping and Epic Viking Adventure"
Ashland Public Library MA
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Ashland Public Library MA
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I continue to cross toes & fingers that a limited TV series of our collaborative novel, A DAY OF FIRE, is really going to reach screens. Seeing my characters Sabinus and Aemilia live on screen would be mind blowing. And I am sure my co-authors would agree. Latest news--WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
March 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I continue to cross toes & fingers that a limited TV series of our collaborative novel, A DAY OF FIRE, is really going to reach screens. Seeing my characters Sabinus and Aemilia live on screen would be mind blowing. And I am sure my co-authors would agree. Latest news--WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Late Roman silver siliquae found in Norfolk, part of the Colkirk hoard. One of these (or similar) will be with each slipcase edition of Rome, my upcoming novel in May.
I particularly like these, as Honorius, depicted on many, was emperor & half-brother to Galla Placidia, the book's main character.
I particularly like these, as Honorius, depicted on many, was emperor & half-brother to Galla Placidia, the book's main character.
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Late Roman silver siliquae found in Norfolk, part of the Colkirk hoard. One of these (or similar) will be with each slipcase edition of Rome, my upcoming novel in May.
I particularly like these, as Honorius, depicted on many, was emperor & half-brother to Galla Placidia, the book's main character.
I particularly like these, as Honorius, depicted on many, was emperor & half-brother to Galla Placidia, the book's main character.
Catch a FREE talk with me at 2 p.m. ET (USA) / 7 p.m. (UK) next Thursday, the 27th February. Held w a library in Ashland, Ma, USA, it will be all things Viking!
REGISTER FREE HERE:
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REGISTER FREE HERE:
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February 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Catch a FREE talk with me at 2 p.m. ET (USA) / 7 p.m. (UK) next Thursday, the 27th February. Held w a library in Ashland, Ma, USA, it will be all things Viking!
REGISTER FREE HERE:
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REGISTER FREE HERE:
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Even the gladiators are reading my books!
February 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Even the gladiators are reading my books!
Nice! The Forgotten Legion in Serbian, a new language for my books!
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nice! The Forgotten Legion in Serbian, a new language for my books!
Because it's marmalade time of year, and I'm so tired of politics. I forgot the dark muscovado sugar (normally, about 15% of the sugar), but didn't forget the Cointreau! It tastes v good.
Like a jar? Leave a comment & you might be 'the one'!
UK only, sorry. Sending abroad is asking for a broken jar.
Like a jar? Leave a comment & you might be 'the one'!
UK only, sorry. Sending abroad is asking for a broken jar.
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Because it's marmalade time of year, and I'm so tired of politics. I forgot the dark muscovado sugar (normally, about 15% of the sugar), but didn't forget the Cointreau! It tastes v good.
Like a jar? Leave a comment & you might be 'the one'!
UK only, sorry. Sending abroad is asking for a broken jar.
Like a jar? Leave a comment & you might be 'the one'!
UK only, sorry. Sending abroad is asking for a broken jar.
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How can it possibly still be January?
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
How can it possibly still be January?
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We're back with our first staff pick of 2025! 📚
To kick off the new year one of our Librarians, Tom, has been reading epic Viking saga "Stormcrow" by Ben Kane - A brilliant mix of historical fact and fiction, the story is set in and around Ireland circa 1000AD, and follows the adventures of Finn
To kick off the new year one of our Librarians, Tom, has been reading epic Viking saga "Stormcrow" by Ben Kane - A brilliant mix of historical fact and fiction, the story is set in and around Ireland circa 1000AD, and follows the adventures of Finn
January 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
We're back with our first staff pick of 2025! 📚
To kick off the new year one of our Librarians, Tom, has been reading epic Viking saga "Stormcrow" by Ben Kane - A brilliant mix of historical fact and fiction, the story is set in and around Ireland circa 1000AD, and follows the adventures of Finn
To kick off the new year one of our Librarians, Tom, has been reading epic Viking saga "Stormcrow" by Ben Kane - A brilliant mix of historical fact and fiction, the story is set in and around Ireland circa 1000AD, and follows the adventures of Finn