A collection of bite-size stories of varying styles all based in the world of ancient Rome. 12 tales of the ancient world, plus a bonus tale to finish. The second edition contains two new tales not told in the 1st. Laugh, cry and shudder at: Hold The Wall - Hadrian's wall in the last days of the western empire Vigil - A comedic tale of firefighting in Rome *NEW* Rudis - A champion gladiator fights his last fight *NEW* The Discovery - A Roman trader makes a surprising find in distant China The man who bought an Empire - The lowest point of Imperial succession Trackside seats - A slave helps his blind master at the circus How to run a latifundium - A cautionary tale of estate management A Reading - What does the future hold in Judea? Exploratores - Trajan's scouts on the trail of Dacian warriors With a pinch of salt - A comedic tale of food in Claudius' Rome The Palmyrene Prince - Rome's eastern border tells grim tales Temple Trouble - A tale of the early days of Fronto (of the Marius' Mules series) Bonus tale: Aftermath in the Ludus - A fun finish.
Author
Simon lives with his wife and children and a menagerie of animals in rural North Yorkshire, where he sits in an office, wired on coffee and digestive biscuits, and attempts to spin engrossing tales out of strands of imagination while his children drive toys across his desk and two dogs howl as they try to share a brain cell. A born and bred Yorkshireman with a love of country, history and architecture, Simon spends most of his rare free time travelling around ancient sites, writing, researching the ancient world and reading voraciously. Following an arcane and eclectic career path that wound through everything from sheep to Microsoft networks and from paint to car sales, Simon wrote Marius’ Mules and, with help and support, made a success of it. Now, with in excess of 20 novels under his belt, Simon writes full time and is represented by MMB Creative literary agents. Simon writes Roman military novels in the form of the bestselling Marius’ Mules series based on Julius Caesar’s campaigns, Roman thrillers in the Praetorian series, set during the troubled reign of Commodus, medieval adventures in the Ottoman Cycle, following a young Greek thief around the 15th century world, and a series of Historical Fantasy novels with a Roman flavour, called the Tales of the Empire. Simon can be found on Twitter as @SJATurney and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SJATurney/ as well as on his website http://www.sjaturney.co.uk
