The Horse ChangerROME 46 BC Dreaming of service to the great Gaius Julius Caesar, the young Tuscan knight, Quintus Dellius, secures the patronage of the youngest of his generals, the dissolute Cornelius Dolabella. Dellius distinguishes himself in Caesars Spanish war against Pompey, becomes a tribune of cavalry in Caesars army and looks forward to an assured and glittering career. But when his hero is assassinated the Roman republic is plunged into chaos as both his

Taranach (Gaelic for the ghost of an unbaptised child)

friendships

Guernica Editions

His first two novels are set in Barbados

from Pembrokeshire’s new potatoes to the oil refineries of Angle

based on a true story and set in Weimar Germany

Halperin’s uniquely conversational poetic mode is known to those who have followed his ‘late arrival’ beginning with the seminal Anniversary (2010

Grace Wells

and exalts a most horrible history into a fantastical rhapsody

Approaching her twelfth birthday

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