I fell in love with history at an early age! I did two masters degrees in history (Cambridge and London) and was about to embark on a career as a Byzantine historian when real life intervened. I did lots of different jobs and ended up working on a trading floor picking stock market winners and losers.

But I never lost my love of history.

When I was still working in stock markets, I published my first book, The Byzantine World War. It's about the dying days of Byzantium, the great Battle of Manzikert, and the First Crusade. Watch me talk about this in a video kindly made by the Historical Association.

Today, I've left stock markets and write full-time. I'm writing a series of books on the Fall of the Roman Empire. I aim to cover the full story of Rome's decline and fall, including the Byzantine Empire. If you've read or heard of Edward Gibbon, you'll know what I'm talking about!

 

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