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

Plutarch's Nine Greek Lives

Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War

Aeschylus The Persians

Herodotus The Histories

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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