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Honor Cargill-Martin is a twenty-two-year-old novelist and historian from London. She won an undergraduate scholarship at Oxford and graduated with a first class degree in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in 2019. Remaining at Oxford as a postgrad, she was awarded a distinction in her masters in Greek and Roman history in 2020. It was here that she met Messalina, who became the subject of her final thesis. Honor is the co-author of a trilogy of YA novels and is currently working on a number of fiction projects for younger readers, while also studying for a second masters in Italian Renaissance Art History at the Courtauld Institute. Messalina is her first foray into non-fiction.
Messalina is more than just a corrective biography of a misunderstood woman. It is a captivating journey into the wild world of imperial Rome and the most accomplished historical debut I have read in years. * Dan Jones * Honor Cargill-Martin writes Messalina's story with a wonderful passion and precision, in a book that reads like a thriller while delivering a nuanced examination of one woman and her many depictions. * Elodie Harper * Brisk, fun and fascinating, this delicious debut is the perfect marriage of scholarship and wit. * Suzannah Lipscomb * For all the tales of sexual jealousy, vicious retribution and (occasionally) genuine love, this is also a serious and substantial account of the political machinations of the Roman imperial court in the first half of the first century ad, from a very considerable scholar. It left me longing for the surely-inevitable Netflix series. * Andrew Roberts *
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