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Caligula

Caligula

The Damned Emperors Book 1

by Simon Turney
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/11/2018
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Everyone knows his name. Everyone thinks they know his story.

Rome 37AD. The emperor is dying. No-one knows how long he has left. The power struggle has begun.

When the ailing Tiberius thrusts Caligula's family into the imperial succession in a bid to restore order, he will change the fate of the empire and create one of history's most infamous tyrants, Caligula.

But was Caligula really a monster?

Forget everything you think you know. Let Livilla, Caligula's youngest sister and confidante, tell you what really happened. How her quiet, caring brother became the most powerful man on earth.

And how, with lies, murder and betrayal, Rome was changed for ever...

ISBN:
9781409175186
9781409175186
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-11-2018
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
496
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x24mm

"Caligula is a monster we all know and love to hate. Simon Turney's novel challenges our prejudice and sketches a more understanding view of the Roman emperor...Turney's version is an entirely plausible take on the sources. We pity the boy, even as we deplore the insane violence of the man. Caligula is an engrossing new spin on a well-known tale"
The Times

"In Caligula Simon Turney uses fiction to challenge some of [the] lies that masquerade under the name of "history"...[His narrator, Livilla] provides an energetic and intelligent eyewitness view of the imperial court and of the gradual decline of Caligula's rule...A satisfyingly alternative look at Caligula, something perhaps done better in fiction than in academic history...Great and enjoyable"
TLS

"Inspired...a mesmerising, haunting and disturbing portrait of Caligula"
Sunday Express S Mag

Simon Turney

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. Now, with in excess of twenty novels under his belt, Simon writes full time. He lives with his wife and children and a menagerie of animals in rural North Yorkshire.

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