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Five of the best crime series set in Ancient Rome

5 November, 2024

The upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator looks brutal to man and beast alike. It arrives in cinemas on 15 November, but we think crime fiction lovers interested in Ancient Rome might be drawn to something a little more… subtle. Here to help us is…

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Anglesey Blue, and more...

By crimefictionlover

2 March, 2017

On the Radar — We’ll start off this week with the latest book to land on the shelf marked Welsh crime fiction. Release yesterday – St David’s Day, appropriately – Anglesey Blue from Bloodhound Books looks interesting. But don’t stop in North Wales, we’ve got crime…

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Interview: Steven Saylor

By Keith Nixon

19 October, 2014

Steven Saylor is the author of the highly successful Roma Sub Rosa series of historical fiction novels set in Republican Rome at the time of some of the largest figures in ancient history – Cicero, Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. The protagonist is Gordianus, who is…

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Raiders of the Nile by Steven Saylor

By Keith Nixon

2 October, 2014

88BC, and a 22-year-old Gordianus, fresh from his voyage to see the seven wonders of the world, has left his hometown of Rome far behind and now lives in Alexandria. He is with his slave and lover, the beautiful Bethesda. Trouble is brewing in Alexandria…

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