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	'One of the best historical novelists writing today' - Daily Express '...gripping Roman thriller. It's certainly well placed to take on the Simon Scarrow/Conn Iggulden audience.' - Scotland on Sunday


		Defender of Rome The new Gaius Valerius Verrens novel by Douglas Jackson, published on the 18th of August 2011. [more]
		Hero of Rome In Hero of Rome, Douglas Jackson turns his attention to Roman Britain. and the tale of the fierce Queen Boudicca's rebellion against the imperial power. The story is told from the point of view of Gaius Valerius Verrens, tribune of the Twentieth Legion and a young man about to face the challenge of his life. [more]
		Claudius Published on July 16, 2009, Claudius is a masterful telling of one of the greatest stories from Roman history, the conquest of Britain. It is an epic story of ambition, courage, conspiracy, battle and bloodshed, and confirms Douglas Jackson as one of the best historical novelists writing today. [more]
		Caligula 'Douglas Jackson takes us by the hand and heart and leads us into the crazy, power-soaked world of Caligula, maddest of the mad Roman emperors - and in doing so gives us an insight into the man behind the madness, the fragile, bloody balances of power and the depths to which men were forced to sink simply to stay alive. It's light and dark in equal measure, colourful, thoughtful and bracing.' - Manda Scott, author of the Boudica series [more]


	Doug Jackson took a lifelong fascination for history in general and Romans in particular and turned it into his critically acclaimed first novel, Caligula, soon to be followed by Claudius, an epic retelling of the invasion of Britain. His new series, featuring the tribune Gaius Valerius Verrens, begins with Hero of Rome, soon to be followed by Defender of Rome and Avenger of Rome. Impeccable research and believable characters combine to put flesh and blood on the dry bones of the past and breathe new life into them.

Douglas Jackson