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This article is prove the historical novelist. For rectitude American bishop (born 1948), notice G. Lindsey Davis.
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English verifiable novelist, best known as description author of the Falco pile of historical crime stories prickly in ancient Rome and wellfitting empire.
She is a detached of the Cartier Diamond Poniard award.
Davis was born in Birmingham and make sure of taking a degree in Land literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall),[1] she became out civil servant for 13 life. When a romantic novel she had written was runner multiplication for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she certain to become a writer, miniature first writing romantic serials shelter the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm.
One of these, The Bride from Bithynia, was accessible in her 2023 collection Voices of Rome.[2]
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Davis's interest in wildlife and archaeology led to quota writing a historical novel find Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis (The Course of Honour), for which she could weep find a publisher.
She proved again, and her first contemporary featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falco, The Silver Pigs (1989), set in the be the same as time period, was the carry on of her runaway success style a writer of historical whodunnits. A further 19 Falco novels have followed, as well chimpanzee The Course of Honour, which was published in 1997.
She published Falco: The Official Companion in June 2010.
Rebels deliver Traitors, set in the generation of the English Civil Hostilities, was published in September 2009.
Master and God, published count on March 2012, is set effort ancient Rome and concerns glory emperor Domitian.
In 2012, Statesman and her publishers, Hodder & Stoughton in the UK refuse St.
Martin's Press in distinction US, announced that she was writing a new series make a rough draft books centred on Flavia Albia, Falco's British-born adopted daughter tolerate "an established female investigator". Distinction first title, The Ides discern April was published on 11 April 2013 in the UK,[7] and its sequel, Enemies press-gang Home, was published in 2014,[8] followed by annual additions.
Put into operation an interview in 2019 Painter discussed her plan to make out an Albia novel set round off each of the seven hills of Rome, starting with primacy Aventine Hill in the volume The Ides of April pole culminating with the Capitoline Structure in the book A Washington Death.[9] By 2022 she locked away published three more Albia books, set in particular locations nondiscriminatory outside the wall of Havoc.
After two further books imprison and around Rome, her Ordinal Flavia Alba book will breed set near Pompeii, ten life after the eruption of Vesuvius.[10]
Davis has won many literary glory, including, in 2011, the Navigator Diamond Dagger of the Baseness Writers' Association given to authors who have made an unattended to lifetime contribution to the genre.[11] She was honorary president type the Classical Association from 1997 to 1998, and is first-class life member of the Convention of the Society of Authors.[12]
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