This week I’m reading DK’s Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History alongside Andrea Penrose’s Murder at Somerset House, which means the historian part of my brain is getting fed from two rather different directions. On one side, I’m going all the way back to Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome: The Definitive …
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Book Review: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
Title: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction Author: Christopher Kelly Dates read: 04/08/26 – 15/09/26 Rating 3.75/5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Number of pages: 153 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: classical studies, history Book blurb: The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of …
Some drive-by mini reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done any mini-reviews (and, y’know, actually finished reading any books to write a review of) so here’s a little round-up of what I’ve been reading recently. I’ve DNFed two books in the last week: The first one was Kelly Ambers – Her First Collar: …