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I think it is hard to beat Wallace Breem, to be honest.
Francis Hagan
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There are so many! Steven Saylor, Lindsey Davis, Wallace Breem, Carolyn Lawrence, Ruth Downie, Albert Bell, Robert Harris, John Maddox Roberts!, Rosemarie Rowe, Rosemary Sutcliffe, wow, so many.
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Francis is too modest to mention his own book, available from Amazon and if you look at the bottom of his post you will see the link to it. I myself think Sidebottom's books are a good read. However, I find the best read of all are the ancient authors themselves, my own preference being Ammianus.
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Quote:I think it is hard to beat Wallace Breem, to be honest.
What Francis said.
The Boat of Fate by Keith Roberts is also a very, very good read.
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Thank you, Adrian - I didn't want to seem crass and self-serving there!
I too would recommend 'The Boat of Fate' by Keith Roberts - and for those who love Late Roman fiction as I do, I would also suggest 'Amida' by Mark Walker here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amida-A-Novel-eb...101&sr=8-1
And at the risk of being biased, 'Behind the Eagles', by Paul Elliot, whom some of you might know!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Behind-the-Eagle...=8-1-spell
Both these books bring to life the period under Julian and Constantius II in vivid and different ways!
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I don't read much in the way of Roman fiction although I did enjoy Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman books when I was younger, while the last book of Roman fiction I read was Roma Victrix by Russell Whitfield, which I enjoyed. I've been trying to read the alternate history/sci-fi novel Romanitas too, although it's a bit of hit and miss.
Personally I plan on expanding my interest in Roman fiction books and I've been eyeing up Ben Kane's Hannibal novels. I might give Simon Scarrow's books a look too, although I'm somewhat daunted by the fact that he's published so many of them. It's going to take a while to play catch up, I think.
Dafydd
Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem.
What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
Virgil, The Aeneid.
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I don't do much of Roman Fiction either, but Rusty Meyers mentioned there are some pretty good ones.
I actually read parts of Longovicum's AAR, which would later become his book. It's good, I liked it.
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Besides many mentioned above, I love Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Rome). I was amazed that such fantastic Roman novels could be written by the author of "The Thorn Birds" and alikes...
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I'd have to agree with you there. I did not discover Breem until I had written my fourth or fifth novel. Just as well, since I doubt I'd have tried to follow in his footsteps. The last third of The Eagle in the Snow is the most enthralling action sequences ever written.
Edit: Whoops, that was supposed to be a reply to an earlier comment about Wallace Breem!