Rome & Pirates – a great combination

Just received two new books to review, both of them from Constable & Robinson. ROME: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a huge compilation of contemporary commentaries from the founding of Rome to the end of Justinian's reign in AD 565, edited by Jon E. Lewis. Then there's A BRIEF HISTORY OF PIRATES & BUCCANEERS, by Tom Bowling, which looks like a text-only version of "The History of Pirates" by Angus Konstam that Thalamus published way back in 1999, but since I haven't had time to get into it yet, that may be an unfair comparison.

A bit of non-fiction will make a break from the mammoth reading of Manda Scott's "Boudica" quartet (almost finished) and Stephen King's "Under the Dome". In between, I must find some time to finish a piece on the thrills, trials and tribulations of rewriting the novels of GA Henty for a modern audience (four available now at Smashwords.com, [plug].