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Simon Turney, born in Ripon, UK, is an English historical novelist with releases centered around Antiquity and Roman Times, the Knights Templar, and the early Ottoman Empire, writing often under the pseudonym SJA Turney. Biography Simon worked in a variety of fields before returning to university to complete an honours degree in classical history through the Open University In his spare time, he wrote the first ''Marius' Mules'' novel, a tale based upon the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar, and with it enjoyed initial self-published success before moving into mainstream releases. A former re-enactor with the Deva Victrix Roman group in Chester, Simon is also a Roman historian and public speaker on the classical world, with a biography of the general Gnaeus Julius Agricola due for release in 2021. Now, with in excess of 40 novels, Simon is a prolific author, spanning such genres as historical fantasy, historical mysteries and historical biography, as well as releasing novels both i ...
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Ripon, UK
Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city is noted for its main feature, Ripon Cathedral, which is architecturally significant, as well as the Ripon Racecourse and other features such as its market. The city was originally known as ''Inhrypum''. Bede records that Alhfrith, king of the Southern Northumbrian kingdom of Deira, gave land at Ripon to Eata of Hexham to build a monastery and the abbot transferred some of his monks there, including a young Saint Cuthbert who was guest-master at Ripon abbey. Both Bede in his Life of Cuthbert and Eddius Stephanus in his Life of Wilfred state that when Eata was subsequently driven out by Alhfrith, the abbey was given to Saint Wilfrid who replaced the timber church with a stone built church. This was during the time of the Anglian king ...
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Canelo (publisher)
Canelo is an independent British publisher which launched in 2015. The three founding partners are Iain Millar, Michael Bhaskar and Nick Barreto. Bhaskar told The Guardian that the corporate goal is to bring the tools of traditional publishing: proofreading, editing, and working closely with authors together with improved design of the digital page to publish both fiction and non-fiction e-books. The new venture's chosen name, "Canelo", loosely translates as the Spanish word for cinnamon. Bhaskar is former digital publishing director at Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distributed in the UK ... and author of ''The Content Machine'', a history of publishing. According to British Airways' ''Business Life'' magazine, ''The Content Machine'' explains that the role of a publis ...
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Writers Of Historical Fiction Set In The Middle Ages
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Writers Of Historical Fiction Set In Antiquity
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21st-century English Novelists
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English Historical Novelists
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Christian Cameron
Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962) also writes under the pen names ''Miles Cameron'' and ''Gordon Kent'' (used only for those novels written with his father, author Kenneth Cameron). Christian, a Canadian novelist, was educated and trained as both an historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. His best-known work is the historical fiction series ''Tyrant'', which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies. Biography Cameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962 and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an ensign, serving in VS-31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his air observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a human intelligence officer, first with NCIS and ...
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Ruth Downie
Ruth Downie (born 18 April 1955, North Devon, United Kingdom) is a British author. She is best known for her mysteries featuring the “reluctant sleuth”, Gaius Petreius Ruso, that are set in the Roman world The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which at its peak covered an area from present-day Lo .... Bibliography *''Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls'' (2006), published as ''Medicus'' in the United States *''Ruso and the Demented Doctor'' (2008), published as ''Terra Incognita'' in the United States *''Ruso and the Root of all Evils'' (2009), published as ''Persona Non Grata'' in the United States *''Ruso and the River of Darkness'' (2010), published as ''Caveat Emptor'' in the United States *''Semper Fidelis'' (2013) *''Tabula Rasa'' (2014) *''Vita Brevis'' (2016) *''Memento Mori'' (2018) *''Prima Facie'' (2019) ...
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Gordon Doherty
Gordon Doherty is a Scottish historical novelist whose works centre mainly on Classical Antiquity. Biography Graduating from university with a degree in Physics, Gordon pursued a career in the science and technology sector. In his spare time, he studied history voraciously, and began working on his first ''Legionary'' novel - set in the late Roman Empire on the cusp of the Great Migration that would see many tribes including the Huns arrive at the empire's doorstep. Launched in 2011 during the self-publishing boom, ''Legionary'' proved to be a great success, and a launch pad for Gordon's writing career. He has gone on to write over twenty further novels, set in the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Classical Greece and the Bronze Age. These have been released both independently and through publishers like Penguin and Head of Zeus. Gordon now writes full-time and is represented by Watson, Little Ltd Literary Agency. He lives with his wife and cats near the ruins of the Antonine Wall. ...
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North Yorkshire
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Orion Publishing Group
Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It was founded in 1991 and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson the following year. The group has published numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Nemir Kirdar and Quentin Tarantino. History Orion Books was launched in 1992, with Orion purchasing the assets of Chapman publishers the following year. In the same year (1993), Orion acquired a warehousing and distribution centre called Littlehampton Book Services (LBS), which was based in Sussex in the UK. A majority share capital of Orion was sold to Hachette Livre in 1998, before Hachette Livre became the sole owner of the Orion Publishing Group in 2003. In December 1998, Orion acquired publishing house Cassell, whose imprints included Victor Gollancz Ltd. This imprint became a part of the Orion group and Orion also took ownership of the Cassell Military list. After acquiring Hodder Headline, Hachette UK was formed, with Orion as its ...
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