Fiona Forsyth

An Ovidian reading list If you have read my Publius Ovidius mysteries, you may want to find out more about the real Ovid.

Sometimes you just want to tell people about Ovid: fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/an-ovidian...

A model of the Very Hungry caterpillar in the window of a bookshop.

Happy #WorldBookDay!

Servilia's Pearl A Roman rewards his mistress

I’m using all my recently retrieved and organized photos in my Substack posts. This one is from 2000.
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My article on the exiles created by the emperor Augustus is now in Historia magazine. The story of the two Julias is a sad one and did Augustus’ reputation little good. historiamag.com/romes-lost-e...

Ancient History Hound: Sparta in the Spotlight. Part I Sparta, what do we know about it exactly and what's been exaggerated, or just made up? In the first of three episodes I look at the education system (agoge), communal mess (syssitia) and get into...

First of three episodes about Sparta is now out. In these I'll be weighing up what we know about Sparta versus common depictions of it. Up first is the Spartan education system, communal mess and Krypteia. #sparta #ancientgreece #krypteia #agoge #syssitia

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I’ve just finished Miranda Carter’s biography of Blunt and have gone from “I liked Another Country” to full on hooked on Cold War Oxbridge #spy drama

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Written in Blood - plotting poetry and murder in the first century Roman Empire.

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Calling all #Romanfiction fans
#KU #histfic

A question for #teachers: I am ten years retired and last night I had a nightmare about showing people round the school on Open Day. When do the school nightmares stop?

A teal, textured book cover, with the title at left - Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus - and a large beige statue of a woman at right.

FYI #AncientSky - the upcoming release of Caitlin C. Gillespie's "Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus" is happening soon. And, it can be on your bookshelf, if you do not resist your excitement and head to the @cornellupress.bsky.social site: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Anyone on #SecondLife?

Historical crime fiction - a forensics-free space? by Fiona Forsyth - Aspects of Crime Long ago, I worked at a school whose teachers formed an enthusiastic crime fiction group and the Head of Chemistry recommended Post Mortem by the relatively unknown Patricia Cornwell: I stayed up unti...

Ah #forensics - who doesn’t love them? So what is a #crimewriter to do when they aren’t available? Answer: turn to Pliny the Elder and get lost in the world of hedgehog urine
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A calico cat plays with a mooli - long white radish type vegetable

A calico cat plays with a mooli - long white radish type vegetable.

Cat and mooli, the perfect combination. NB be careful which one you shred and make coleslaw with

Thank you!!!

Written in Blood by Fiona Forsyth - Review - Aspects of Crime Written In Blood is the third book by Fiona Forsyth featuring the poet Ovid. We first met Forsyth’s Ovid in Poetic Justice, as he begins his exile in Tomis, on the coast of modern-day Romania. He’s de...

It may be #Fridaythethirteenth but it’s a good day for me #newbook
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How to Upload Your Paperback: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #writingq #writer #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872285

Tiberius the cat Of course the cat steals the show - it's what cats do!

The joy of #cat ownership! fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/tiberius-t...

Roman crime - a top five … all fictional of course

Need a recommendation #booklovers? fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/roman-crim...

A heap of books on Roman history, cookery, literature and gynaecology.

It takes a library to raise a novel #libraries

A screenshot of a map of travel routes to and from Italy

Travel in the ancient world is made easy with this website from Stanford. #ancientrome
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WWW Wednesday | 4th February 2026 #WWWWednesday #bookblogger #amreading #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles Welcome to WWW Wednesday. This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your po…

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Two pillars of the Queensferry bridge against a blue cloudy sky

A beautiful view - nothing like a bridge!

An oculist’s stamp “ALL that summer Marcus and Esca wandered through the abandoned Province of Valentia, crossing and re-crossing from coast to coast, and making steadily northward.

A new Sunstack
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A calico cat curled up in yellow and orange blankets

Everybody wants to be a cat

CE 71
How can Bran rebuild his life after the battlegrounds of Whorl? He still wants the Roman scourge gone!
Roman Britain
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Roman legions in northern #Britannia
#warsaga
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A stamp from 1957 depicting the statue of Ovid now in Constanta.

Time to learn about Ovid!

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January 1536
The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

All the King's Bastards
£1.99 or #Free #KU!
#Histfic #SpeculativeFic #booksky 📚💙📚💙📚
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Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com