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Blogs in January 2026

Agrippa 12th January 2026

Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s...

Precipice 20th December 2023

‘A master storyteller’ Observer Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more...

Act of Oblivion 22nd August 2022

‘From what is it they flee?’ He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King.’ 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe,...

V2 9th September 2020

The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf has dreamt since childhood of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, along with his friend Werner von Braun,...

Imperium 20th July 2019

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the...