A Roman PI

Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series, 1991-ongoing, 10 novels & 2 short stories collections.
I own ten books by Steven Saylor all of them belong to his Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder: A private detective working in ancient Rome, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, around the middle of the first century BC. Some [...]

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Redreaming the dream

Iain Pears’s The Dream of Scipio, 2002, about hundred and sixty-five thousands words in three parts spanning 392 pages.
Three characters separated by time but connected by a single text. The first character writes the text, but only the second character is able to demonstrate the courage expressed in that text, while both the first and [...]

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Gertrude & Claudius

John Updike’s Gertrude & Claudius, 2000, about sixty-five thousands words in three parts spanning 210 pages.
Here is a short review I shared with a couple of friends some years ago:

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Barry Unsworth

Born in 1930, his books include:
* Pascali’s Island, short-listed for the 1980 Booker Prize.
* Stone Virgin (1985).
* Sacred Hunger, joint winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.
* Morality Play, short-listed for the 1995 Booker Prize.
* Losing Nelson (1999).
* The Songs of the Kings (2002).
* The Ruby in Her Navel (2006).
The three novels I read were all [...]

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