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Douglas Jackson


Scotland (b.1956)

aka James Douglas

Douglas Jackson is the author of the successful historical novels Caligula and Claudius and my next book Hero of Rome, the first of a new trilogy, will be published in July 2010. I was born in Jedburgh on the border between England and Scotland in the summer of 1956. It's a place full of history and haunted by the ghosts of Border reivers and the victims of centuries of bloody border warfare. I left school three weeks before my 16th birthday with six O levels and no idea what I was going to do with the rest of my life. Luckily, a friend worked in the local employment office and got me a place on a youth work scheme. It turned out to be restoring a Roman marching camp in the Cheviot Hills and I had a wonderful summer turning turf and dreaming of Romans. Later I joined my local paper and for the next 36 years worked in local and national newspapers in Scotland, including the Daily Record and the Scotsman. I left the Scotsman after nine years as assistant editor in the summer of 2009 to become a full-time writer.
 

Genres: Historical, Mystery
 
Series
Rufus
   1. Caligula (2008)
   2. Claudius (2009)
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Gaius Valerius Verrens
   1. Hero of Rome (2010)
   2. Defender of Rome (2011)
   3. Avenger of Rome (2012)
   4. Sword of Rome (2013)
   5. Enemy of Rome (2014)
   6. Scourge of Rome (2015)
   7. Saviour of Rome (2016)
   8. Glory of Rome (2017)
   9. Hammer of Rome (2018)
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Glen Savage Mystery
   1. War Games (2014)
   2. Brothers in Arms (2019)
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Novels
   The Wall (2022)
   The Barbarian (2023)
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Douglas Jackson recommends
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Libertas (2009)
Alistair Forrest
"Alistair Forrest's Libertas is a fast-moving tale of fortitude, survival and eventual retribution told against the background of Rome's bloody civil war. Forrest vividly recreates the epic battle that gave Caesar the prize he sought so avidly."

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