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Fulvia Unleashed
My second popular history book, Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome, is now available to buy in hardback, trade paperback, e-book, and audiobook format! It was published by Atlantic Books at the beginning of April in the UK and Northern Ireland, and I believe you can also order it from…
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Pre-order Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
Six weeks today, on 3rd April 2025, my second popular history book, Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome, will be published and on sale in bookshops. There are proofs (also known as ARCs, advanced reader copies) out in the world and they have been popping up on social media, and…
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A Day in the Life of an Academic on Research Leave
I’ve been on research leave since September, my first period of institutional leave since I started working as an academic in September 2013. I had to apply for it, providing a plan and a projected set of outputs, and I have largely achieved what I set out to do. I’ve submitted grant applications for future…
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Cleopatra’s Daughter Published in Paperback
Today (12th October 2023) marks the paperback publication of the UK edition of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen. The paperback has a slightly different cover design to the original hardback with the addition of a lot of nice quotes from the reviews the book received – there is one from the New…
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New Book Announcement!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Atlantic Books for my second popular history book, A Thoroughly Rapacious Female: How Fulvia Played the Game, Broke All the Rule, Won and then Lost in Ancient Rome. It will be published in hardback in 2025. The news was broken last Friday in The Bookseller,…
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Queens of Ancient Egypt Documentary
Last year I went to Dublin for a day to film some talking head sequences for a documentary on Cleopatra Selene, and that documentary is now available to view in various places around the world! It’s called Queens of Ancient Egypt, by a production company called Off The Fence. Here in the UK, it’s on…
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Reading Recommendations!
I was recently contacted by Shepherd.com as asked to provide a set of book recommendations. Since Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen/Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen is about an interesting historical woman, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some books in a similar vein that I have enjoyed,…
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Reviews for Cleopatra’s Daughter
The last two weeks has seen a couple of new reviews of my book come out in major publications. The first, of the British edition Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen, in the Times Literary Supplement, by Professor Edith Hall, was a nice surprise. CD:EPRPAQ was published in the UK in November 2022,…
Dr Jane Draycott 