What a great subject for research! Having decided that I must include a meeting between the protagonist of the new novel and …
Inspirations
This is a collection of random but interesting bits of ephemera and fascinating stories that have inspired my books. There are historical and archaeological facts, and some good ‘yarns’ that may be the product of someone else’s imagination, but together, they are the scaffolding for my own imagination.
In 43 BC, Lucius Sestius was travelling through Asia with Marcus Junius Brutus the assassin of Julius Caesar. Brutus and his fellow …
I have started to think about what a reader might like to known about the world in which Lucius lived, material which …
While researching the historical events of the year of Lucius Sestius’ consulship, 23 BCE, I found the historian Cassius Dio very informative. …
