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Out today & available in digital and physical formats at your favourite retailers

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Audio to follow in 2026
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Marius' Mules is back. 69BC, and Fronto is heading for Spain, in support of its new quaestor, Julius Caesar! 🙂

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September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
BOOKSHOP

Since the festival season has passed for 2025, this is the stock I have in the office. All available signed, lined and dated, and personalised if you wish. Some fiction, some non-fiction. Paperbacks £12 delivered in UK, hardbacks £20. Foreign postage on request. Message me if you want any.
August 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Signed books available at the moment. If you want any of them, send me a DM. Paperbacks £12 delivered, harbacks £22. Discount for multiples:

Terra Incognita PB
Para Bellum PB
Kings of Stone and Ice PB
A Song of War PB
Agricola HB (non fiction)
Auxiliary units of Roman Britain HB (non fiction)
August 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
June 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'nuff said...
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The two right hands of the Colossus of Constantine in the Capitoline. Yup, you heard it. Two right hands. One pointing, the other holding something. The original was probably of Hadrian, but in AD 312 it was both Maxentius and then Constantine. More in my coming biography of the last Roman emperor.
June 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Don't you just hate those itches you can't quite reach...
June 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Spent a very happy hour or more this morning having a beer and talking all things Maxentius with the fantastic Marco Aurelio Valerio Massenzio (Marco Cecini). That's a life goal complete... :-)
June 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
That's right... your worst nightmare has come true...
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A windswept historian blathering on about his favourite emperor. #rome #roman #tetrarchy #maxentius #ancient #forum

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May 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today, in the Capitoline museum: The emperor Septimius Severus and his sons Geta and Caracalla. Things are slowly coming to a head in that family in the Praetorian series. Want to see what happens next? Go buy Praetorian 8: The Bandit King. Out now...

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FB6QWXS8/
May 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A fabulous piece of stonework. Imagine it with a vane/windsock and working. How wonderful is this?#roman #rome #history #wind #weather #ancient

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May 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's not polite to call out "Jeeesus!" in the Vatican, but when you turn round to this, it's a natural reaction...
May 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Welcome back from battle, Horatius."
"Thanks mum."
"Ready for dinner yet?"
"No. Bit of a headache. Going for a lie down first..."
May 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today is release day for Praetorian book 8: The Bandit King. To celebrate, here's a little image I just took of the Praetorian fortress in Rome, which features quite heavily. Go get your copy now. Happy reading, folks...

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May 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're in Yorkshire this weekend, or even just on an easy rail link, come to the 2025 Eboracum festival. Roman reenactors everywhere, talks, crafts, kids' fun and even a few humble writers with signed books available, including yours truly. Veni vidi scripsi.
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Possibly the best Far Side toon ever...
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
May is a Turney 'Twofer'. Halfdan & the Wolves are now out in book 6: Kings of Stone and Ice, while Rufinus returns on the 29th in Praetorian 8: The Bandit King, now up for pre-order. Get the latest adventures for your favourite hero:

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F941QS52/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DP5XVQQX/
May 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Have you missed Halfdan? Looking forward to his and his Wolves last adventure. The wait is almost over. Kings of Stone and Ice is out tomorrow. Go grab your copy and see the saga complete. 🙂
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May 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Live in the midlands and not busy this weekend? Come along to Leicester for the first Roman festival, watch Roman reenactors, have fun, and maybe get some signed books from acclaimed Roman writers... :-)
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So what? Everyone else was doing it... ;-)
April 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today is release day for my pal Gordon Doherty's latest opus. Devotio is the 10th & final book in the storming Legionary series. If you've read the rest, don't miss the conclusion, & if you've not, then now is the perfect time. Get a copy. You'll NOT be disappointed.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZL55MDM/
March 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
February 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Good idea, eh?
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM