Recently back from a stint in Britain on the emperor’s business, Falco finds himself in jail for crossing the emperor’s chief spy. Marcus Didius Falco is a “private informer” in the first-century Roman empire. I swear I’ve read some of these before, but they’re the type of books that are made of the same mould. Davis has won many literary awards, and was honorary president of the Classical Association from 1997 to 1998. Rebels and Traitors, set in the period of the English Civil War, was published in September 2009.
A further nineteen Falco novels and Falco: The Official Companion have followed, as well as The Course of Honour, which was finally published in 1998. She tried again, and her first novel featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falco, The Silver Pigs, set in the same time period and published in 1989, was the start of her runaway success as a writer of historical whodunnits. Her interest in history and archaeology led to her writing a historical novel about Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis ( The Course of Honour), for which she couldn't find a publisher. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949.
0 kommentar(er)
