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BESTSELLING AUTHOR
COLUMNIST & TEACHER
“Scott’s writing is powerful and subltle, her characters have depth, the plot is impeccable and original and the shiver count is high.”
The Times
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
THE TIMES
“Scott’s writing is powerful and subtle, her characters have depth, the plot is impeccable and original and the shiver count is high”
THE GUARDIAN
“With a talent for combining physical and emotional action… Scott writes with an intensity that makes this book a nail biting tour-de-force.”
THE INDEPENDENT
“… literate, fast moving, and most importantly, written for love”
LATEST ARTICLE
DRUIDS, DRUGS AND THE REAL BRITANNIA?
We’ve been watching (and enjoying) Britannia. Here’s my take on the druids: who were they, what did they do, and whether they were they anything like the much-scarred head druid Veren and Divis, the outcast with the demon problem…
SHORT STORY
NEW FOR 2018 – IT'S FREE!
A brand new story steeped in the world of the Boudica series. Read now on any device. Click the image and tell us where to send it.
BEHIND THE BOUDICA SERIES
LUCID DREAMING: ANCIENT SKILL OR MODERN FAD?
Everyone dreams: not everyone dreams lucidly, but it’s there for those who want to step into a world (many worlds) where anything is possible. Here is the gateway to all possible futures, and the answers, if we persist, to all possible questions.
THE CELTS, WOMEN & SEX
“We consort openly with the best of men. You allow yourselves to be debauched in secret by the vilest.” – so said the consort of the Gaulish king to Julia Augustus, wife of the Emperor to the Roman Empress who cast aspersions on her morals. Celtic women were far more empowered than their Roman counterparts – and we’ve barely got back to what our ancestors took as their right.
BREAKING THE LEGACY OF ROME
What did the Romans ever do for us? Besides committing cultural and spiritual genocide, destroying our links to five thousand years or more of spiritual evolution and annihilating our tribal roots – not a lot that we’d want to keep.
THE OLD GODS &THE NEW
In Britannia, Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) knows that to defeat the tribes of Britannia, you need to kill their gods. But who were the old gods of our tribal past? Are they still here? And if so, how best can we re-connect with them, to rediscover our heritage and our sense of connectedness to the earth.
BOUDICA
NEW YORK TIMES
“A masterpiece of historical fiction…”
THE ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA
“All historical novels should be this good”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE
“It is so well written that its world of prescient dreamers and fearless warriors lingers in the imagination long after the final page”
INTO THE FIRE
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING…
For six centuries, we’ve been told that Joan of Arc was a pious – and necessarily clueless – peasant virgin used as a standard bearer while the men got on with the messy act of winning the war against the English.
The truth is so much more interesting, but in the past and in the present day, there are people who will kill to keep the myth alive.
In this fast-paced, gritty thriller, past and present weave inexorably towards an incendiary – and unexpected – conclusion. Read more.
THE ART OF WAR
Fourth – and last – in The Emperor’s Spy series. In his deadliest assignment yet, Sebastos Pantera, the spy whose name means leopard, is assigned to keep safe an upstart general who has pretensions to take the Imperial throne.
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#AMTALKING
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#AMWRITING
Why do we write? More importantly, how do we write? Observations from the coalface on the process of writing as an art, a profession and a way of staying sane (ish).
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For those of us who still read in blocks of longer than 280 characters, a round up of all that’s best in books, journals, commentary and on the web.