I realised the other day that I had neglected to include an Author’s Afterword in my novel, Master Wolsey. Historical fiction readers often like to know where in a novel fact ends and fiction takes over, so I have now added an Afterword (set out below) to the eBook edition which explains which parts of […]
Tudor Court Boxset on Sale at Kobo
If you’re a Kobo ereader user, then you can get my 3-novel Tudor Court boxset / omnibus edition for 40% off the usual price. There are plenty of boxsets in the sale: just click here. This deal is available worldwide, at all Kobo’s online stores. All you have to do is enter the code MAYSALE […]
Coriolanus On Film
While Shakespeare lovers are usually spoilt for choice when it comes to film productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and many others of the most popular of the Bard’s plays, this is not the case for Coriolanus. It’s easy to see why. It’s a purely political play, in the same vein as Julius […]
The Genesis Of The Eagle In The Dovecote – Coriolanus By William Shakespeare
It’s not often a writer can say where they get their ideas from. Indeed, if you were to Google ‘where do writers get their ideas from’, I daresay you would find a host of writers bemoaning this simple question. But in regard to The Eagle In the Dovecote, I can say exactly how and when […]
Tarquin Family Tree
Last King – Research
The History of Rome – Michael Grant SPQR: A Roman Miscellany – Anthony Everitt with Roddy Ashworth The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World – John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars – Kathryn Lomas SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – […]