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Boudica II: Dreaming the Bull Hardback Published: 05, Feb, 2004 isbn: 0593052579 Publisher: Bantam Press Buy this book from Amazon |
Synopsis
DREAMING THE BULL begins in AD 47: Aulus Plautius has left Britannia and the new governor, Publius Scapula is due to arrive. In the space between, Boudica and Caradoc mount a savage resistance against the leaderless western armies of Rome. Set against them is Julius Valerius, an officer in the Roman auxiliary cavalry, whose increasing brutality in the service of his god and emperor can never shield him from the ghosts of his past.
Author's Comment
With this novel, we move into the realms of a land partially under occupation: the west is still free while the east is subject to some of the most savage oppression in the history of Rome's domination of Europe. In Rome, Claudius was gradually losing his touch. He clung onto power until AD 54, for which the tribes of Britannia should probably be grateful: it gave them at least four years in which the opposition was poorly and incoherently led. It gave breathing space, for a time.