This week's chat is one of the most successful authors writing historical fiction, Conn Iggulden. He's written series on Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan, and more recently on Ancient Greece. Conn and I discuss his latest novel Lion, the Greeks and the Persians, Pericles and the beginnings of the Athenian Empire and Conn's approach to historical fiction.
Conn Iggulden Links
Lion following on from Protector
David Gemmell's Lion of Macedon
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War
Aspects of History Links
Jessie Childs on the English Civil War
Adam Zamoyski on Kissinger and Ukraine
Ronan McGreevy on the assassination that sparked the Irish Civil War
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