Former Hon. President of the Classical Association and current President of the CA Birmingham & Midlands branch, Lindsey Davis, will be talking about her new book ‘There Will Be Bodies’ at the Heath Bookshop in Birmingham on Thursday 3 April at 6.30pm.
Lindsey will be talking for around an hour , followed by a book signing.
Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including A Cruel Fate, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with Master and God, a standalone novel set in that dark period, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia.
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There Will Be Bodies:
Uncle Tullius has bought a house. Ten years after Mount Vesuvius erupted, he wants to support the bereaved community (for tax reasons) so he has acquired a bargain on Bay of Naples. His amiable nephew is to renovate the property – in the course of which, as Tiberius tells his sceptical workmen, there may be grim discoveries. These will have to be investigated by Albia: something for the boss’s wife to do while she waits for nice furniture to arrive and the water supply to be reconnected.
Death in the Roman world, as now, can be from domestic cruelty, a lifetime of self-abuse or a sudden accident. The fact that vicious rocks and choking ash are blotting out the daylight in the world’s most beautiful scenery does not change the poisonous dynamics of family life. ‘Friends’ may hope your income will supplement theirs – and perhaps it would be best to remove you first… Now, in the once thriving spa town of Stabiae, a curious mix of local entrepreneurs and visiting forces of law and order are at odds; then Albia plans a showdown that owes a debt to the history of forensic experiment – although both the unguents and ethics were much more slippery two thousand years ago…
Note: this is a fee-paying event run by an organisation which is not affiliated to, or funded by, the Classical Association