Just started The Perfect Spy by John Le Carre. Enjoying it so far.
I haven't read any Le Carre. My dad hardly read at all and it took him a year to finish a novel. But he read all of Le Carre's.
I've just started Day of the Caesars, book 16 of Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series. I knew I'd read a few of them but didn't realise the number was fifteen!
Now that's some proper reading! Good stuff.By coincidence, I've just finished Tacitus' Agricola and am about to start his Annales. Two of the sources Mr Scarrow will undoubtedly used, along with others.
Now that's some proper reading! Good stuff.
I've just started Day of the Caesars, book 16 of Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series. I knew I'd read a few of them but didn't realise the number was fifteen!
Can recommend "Rubicon" by Tom Holland if you haven't tried it...
Thanks, I don't know that one but will check it out.Can recommend "Rubicon" by Tom Holland if you haven't tried it...
Thanks, I don't know that one but will check it out.
I've just started Day of the Caesars, book 16 of Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series. I knew I'd read a few of them but didn't realise the number was fifteen!
Cheers, I'll have a look for those!If you like a Roman theme and detective fiction, I can recommend Stephen Saylor's "Gordianus the Finder" series set in late Republican Rome.
Rosemary's Sutcliff's 3 Roman novels set in Britain are good, too, the first being Eagle of the 9th. They were actually written as what today we would call YA fiction, but stand up well as an adult read.
Robert Graves's two Cluadius books - I, Claudius being the first - are a fantastic read.
I'm currently reading "The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey" by Kevin Leahy.
Before that I just finished book 10 (the final one) of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson.
I read the first 6 about 20 years ago. My Mum had/has signed copies of them. Then read the last 4 in the last couple of years.Good Lord, I read the Covenant books back in the 80s in 6th form. Only the first 3, though. I actually wrote a computer game based on them and - this is pre-internet, for our younger viewers - released it as shareware.