{"product_id":"voices-of-rome-four-tales-of-ancient-rome-9781399721370","title":"Voices of Rome: Four Tales of Ancient Rome","description":"Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome. Here, for the first time in book form, are four novella-length stories written to illuminate her unparalleled output of the last 30 years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bride from Bithynia\u003c\/b\u003e tells the story of Aelia Camilla who travels 1000 miles to Britain to marry Gaius Flavius, a Roman officer. But their relationship struggles, then the province explodes in the Boudican Revolt. Now, it will be up to Aelia to save herself from the conflagration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spook Who Spoke Again.\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is an odd boy who has known two families. That of Marcus Didius himself and his actual birth mother, Thalia the Snake Dancer. Things begin to unravel quickly when he decides to emulate his adopted father and investigate a death in Thalia's troupe of exotic performers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVesuvius by Night.\u003c\/b\u003e Two men share a room but seldom meet. Nonius is a pimp and part time thief who operates at night, Larius is a fresco painter who dreams of artistic greatness by day. When the volcano erupts, one will begin looting hastily abandoned villas, the other will do anything he can to save himself and his family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvitation to Die.\u003c\/b\u003e When the Emperor Domitian invites the entire senatorial class to a banquet to honour the recent war dead, many think he intends to take revenge on his enemies. When the Camillus brothers enter the black-painted hall where the feast is being held and see their names engraved on monumental stones, they fear they will not survive the night... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour pivotal events, fact and fiction. Four stories which allow Davis's much-loved characters new space and the opportunity to take personal roles in tense situations, with moving results. They face villainy, tragedy, accident, confusion and fear - but each story is told with the wry humour, and underpinned by human wisdom, courage and love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including \u003ci\u003eA Cruel Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with \u003ci\u003eMaster and God\u003c\/i\u003e, a standalone novel set in that dark period, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her books are translated and five radio dramas are regularly rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4X. Her many awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Most recently she was awarded the Ivanhoe Prize for lifetime achievement in historical fiction, given by the Spanish City of Ubeda. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe has been the Chair of the UK Crimewriters' Association, Honorary President of the UK Classical Association, President of the Birmingham and Midlands Institute and is a Fellow of the UK Society of Authors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.lindseydavis.co.uk \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLindsey Davis - The Crime Writers' Association (thecwa.co.uk)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893706854674,"sku":"9781399721370","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28ce9f77-f455-4ed9-9280-608711c12675.jpg?v=1738234048","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voices-of-rome-four-tales-of-ancient-rome-9781399721370","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}