About The Author
In Her Own Words…
2000 sees the publication of Ode to a Banker, twelfth in the Marcus Didius Falco series of detective novels set in Imperial Rome.
In September, Random House will also be publishing new editions of the first two books in the series, The Silver Pigs and Shadows in Bronze. This is the first time the whole series has been together with one publisher, and is to be marked by a dramatic new look for the jacket.
In 1999 there has been great excitement as Two for the Lions, now published in paperback, was announced as the first winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, a brand new award for historical crime.
I was born and brought up in Birmingham, read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service. After thirteen years, a novel I had written to cheer myself up was runner-up for the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, which encouraged me to leave my job and try to become a writer. I was accepted for the government's Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and thereafter classified as a Small Business, although it took years of struggle to achieve success. I had romantic serials commissioned for Woman's Realm, then changed to writing about the Romans with The Course of Honour, the remarkable true love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Antonia Caenis. My research into imperial Rome then inspired The Silver Pigs, the first in the Falco series about a Roman informer in the AD70s, which has now attracted a devoted readership.
The Silver Pigs won the Authors' Club Best First Novel for 1989, and I was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library (for the author "whose work has given most pleasure") in 1995. An unusual thrill for a crime novelist came when I was invited to be Honorary President of the UK Classical Association in 1997/8, as a result of which Falco achieved the rare distinction of appearing in a Times Leader column!
My books are published in the UK and US, and translated into many other languages. I write occasional short stories and articles, and I review books for The Good Book Guide. Last year my short story The party may yet be living… appeared in the Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology, Past Poisons (published by Headline) and I introduced Green for Danger by Christianna Brand in the Pan Classic Crime series. I am a committee member of the UK Crimewriters Association.
Lindsey Davis was recently voted as one of the top 50 authors in the Waterstone’s Reading Survey and received the 1999 Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco. |
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Ode to a Banker
(Century,
2000)
Jun 00
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Falco on his Metal
(Arrow,
1999)
Arrow Pbk Nov 99
One Virgin Too Many
(Century,
1999)
Arrow Pbk May 00
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Two for the Lions
(Century,
1998)
Arrow Pbk Jun 99
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Three Hands in the Fountain
(Century,
1997)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
The Course of Honour
(Century,
1997)
Century Jan 97
Century Hutchinson Pbk Jan 98
A Dying Light in Corduba
(Century,
1996)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Time to Depart
(Century,
1995)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Last Act in Palmyra
(Century,
1994)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Poseidon's Gold
(Century,
1993)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
The Iron Hand of Mars
(Century,
1992)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Venus in Copper
(Hutchinson,
1991)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Marcus Didius Falco: Curriculum Vitae
The Silver Pigs
(Macmillan)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
Shadows in Bronze
(Macmillan)
(Marcus Didius Falco)
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