Virgilio Campos

This is a story - perhaps the story - of the struggle for survival of the little pocket of Roman civilisation left in Britain - as it is now - when the Western Roman Empire was crumbling into dust; an epic story, woven around the personalities we know as King Arthur, the bravest of the brave, Uther Pendragon, and Merlin, the wisest of the wise. We see this epoch through the experiences of different personalities at the centre of these events which shook the world as they knew it, and recounted for us by the careful, accurate pen of Gildasius, the narrator and note taker, the secretary to the great. Firmly based on historical fact and contemporary sources, Virgilio Campos combines the excitement of the historical novel with a new and...

Дата выхода: январь 2005

It`s a rainy day in 446 on the edge of the Roman Empire. Two men, both at the height of their powers, relax in a hunting lodge on Epsom Downs. Over wine, one of them, Ambrosius Aurelianus, asks his visitor, General Aetius, a crucial question: `Did you have an affair with the Empress Galla Placidia?` The short answer is easy. The longer one, here set out brilliantly in the form of a conversation, diary excerpts, and letters from people close to the heady - and bloody - action of those troubled times, covers the love life and political intrigues of the last great Roman general. Wives, mistresses, umpteen children, plots, treason, murders, invasions, and a fierce relationship with Attila the Hun - the scourge of God. We hear, from the...

Дата выхода: январь 2005