Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter By anybody's standards, Conn Iggulden is a staggeringly prolific author. Since his The Gates of Rome appeared in 2003, he has ...

In ancient Athens, if you got too big for your boots, your fellow citizens could elect to have you ostracised. Just 6,000 votes, written on pottery shards and placed in an urn, was enough to have you ...

Iggulden's smashing fourth installment to his Mongol series (Genghis: Bones of the Hills, etc.) picks up after Genghis's death as his three sons and four grandsons vie to be the Mongol leader. After ...

Having already taken on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and the War of the Roses, Iggulden (The Dangerous Book for Boys) successfully dramatizes the life of Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury and confidant of ...

A deliciously subversive vein runs through this story collection%E2%80%94not surprising coming from the coauthor of The Dangerous Book for Boys. The protagonist ...

Conn Iggulden is known for turning the lives of legendary figures into gripping, fast-paced epics. From the brutal rise of Genghis Khan in his Conqueror series to the drama of ancient Rome in Emperor ...

EXCLUSIVE: Exclusive Media Group has set Burr Steers to direct Emperor: Young Caesar, the screen adaptation of the first of four bestselling novels that trace the relationship between Julius and ...

As he sits in his book-lined study, Conn Iggulden puffs away at something that looks just like a cigarette. When he inhales, the tip of it glows red, and when he exhales a cloud of wispy vapour comes ...

For the first time, an author is top of the fiction and non-fiction charts. So who is Conn Iggulden? Not so long ago, the name Conn Iggulden was not one associated with making bookselling history. The ...

Conn Iggulden on writing about St Dunstan, distinguished playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker on her new play Winter Hill, we assess virtual reality on radio. Show more Conn Iggulden is one of the most ...

In 1998, I was looking for a new subject, unable to get published after years of trying. I opened Christian Meier’s Caesar (1992) with no sense that it would change my life completely. It is a ...