Roman Holiday
40 pages
|Published: 15 Jun 2014
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ISBN: 9781472264602
Format: Ebook
Language: English
Publisher: Headline
Publication date: 1 January 2019
Description
A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife's house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Julius Caesar - poised to become King of Rome. Or as good as. At this potentially sensitive point in your political manoeuvrings, who are the last people you'd want crashing through the door, observing, recording, documenting ...?I think we all know the answer to that one.Roman Holiday - an epic, stand alone tale set in Ancient Rome, 44 BC, featuring, in no particular an attempted murder, stampeding bullocks, Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, a bowl of poisonous snakes, a smallish riot, Julius Caesar and Mr Markham's wayward bosoms.Readers love Jodi 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything ... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun '' Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked ''A tour de force'
