Publications

This is a list of my main works, with original publication dates. For full details of English language novels (including American!), use either the drop down menu above for each title or the links provided below. For foreign language versions see the Translations page. 

novels | short stories | introductions
BBC Publications | articles

Novels

  The Course of Honour

The Falco series: 

  The Silver Pigs

Shadows in Bronze

Venus in Copper

The Iron Hand of Mars

Poseidon's Gold

Last Act in Palmyra

Time to Depart

A Dying Light in Corduba

Three Hands in the Fountain

Two for the Lions

One Virgin Too Many

Ode to a Banker

The Jupiter Myth

  The Accusers

Scandal Takes a Holiday

See Delphi and Die

Saturnalia

Short Stories

NB - these are not by my regular publishers so I don't have information about whether they are still in print.

  “Going Anywhere Nice?”, in ‘The Detection Collection’, edited by Simon Brett (75th Anniversary of the Detection Club), Orion paperback, ISBN 0-75287-249-4
Scorpion Press Limited Edition, ISBN 1-873567 74

"The Short Story (with Critical Apparatus)"

  "Investigating the Silvius Boys" (1995)
(commissioned for the Nottingham Bouchercon): Romulus did Remus - but who did Romulus? 
     No Alibi, ed Jakubowski, Ringpull Press and Scorpion Limited Edition Classical 
     Whodunnits, ed Ashley, Robinson Publishing 
     Acquired by Kobunsha for Japan
     reprinted in Murder through the Ages, ed Maxim Jakubowski, Headline, 2000. ISBN 0-7472-6617-4.
     Published by La Masque in France, 2001.

  "Abstain from Beans" (1996) 
(commissioned for the CWA annual anthology): The death of Pythagoras, solved by Milo of Croton 
     Perfectly Criminal, ed Edwards, Severn House 
     Malice Domestic 6, Pocket Books, USA 
     Acquired by Kobunsha for Japan

  "The Party may yet be Living…" (1998)
A story set in Birmingham (UK) in the Seventeenth Century 
     Past Poisons (a Memorial Anthology to Ellis Peters) ed Jakubowski, Headline Book Publishing

  "Body Zone" (May 2001)
The Mysterious Press Anthology: Celebrating 25 years by the Editors of Mysterious Press. ISBN 0-89296-739-0.
    Included in Great Stories of Crime and Detection, volume IV from the Folio Society.

  "Something Spooky on Geophys"
In Mysterious Pleasures, ed Edwards, the CWA Jubilee Anthology, published Little, Brown (November 2003), ISBN 0-316-72563-3
    To be included in ‘The Best British Mysteries of the Year (2003)’, ed M Jakubowski, Allison and Busby, November 2004

  ‘Going Anywhere Nice’ to be published Autumn 2005 by Orion in The Detection Collection, an Anthology of The Detection Club. A Scorpion Fine Edition will also be available.

Introductions

  Sharpe's Tiger, Bernard Cornwell. Scorpion special edition (1997) 

  Green for Danger, Christianna Brand. Macmillan Classic Crime series (1999)

  Crimewriters' Association Anthology Crime in the City,  the Do Not Press (2002)

  Time Out Guide to Rome, article on Crime in Ancient Rome (2005)

  Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, the Folio Society (available to Society members only), (2005)  

  Life in Ancient Rome by Simon Adams, Kingfisher Knowledge, (2005)
 

BBC Publications

Of the serials, ‘The Silver Pigs’ (4 parts) and ‘Shadows in Bronze’ (6 parts) have been broadcast, ‘Venus in Copper’ (6 parts) is in production for 2006, and ‘The Iron Hand of Mars’ is being offered to BBC management in their ‘bids’ for future programmes. These serials are adapted for radio by Mary Cutler, (one of my oldest friends, who was in my class at school) and produced in Birmingham by Peter Lesley Wild. After broadcast, each episode is available for a week for listening through the BBC website under Radio 4 Listen Again, and then CDs and Cassettes are made for sale.

The Audiobooks, also available as CDs or cassettes, are unabridged readings of the novels produced by BBC Audiobooks. They are often available in libraries or you can buy your own copies.

People, including me, get confused about ‘the BBC’. Public service broadcasting, mainly paid for by the UK household TV license fee, gives us radio and TV programmes; they also run the main BBC website. ‘BBC Worldwide’, which includes ‘BBC Audiobooks’ is a supporting commercial arm run like any other publishing venture (ie without public money). They contribute to BBC broadcasting and their activities do help keep the license fee down.

Availability

The Radio 4 drama serial CDs are available from the BBC Shop, which can be accessed from the main BBC radio and TV website. However, the British BBC Shop is not allowed to ship outside Europe. There is an American BBC Shop, but they mainly do TV and so far have not bought my radio serials.

The Unabridged Audiobooks and the radio programmes are available from www.audiobookcollection.com. They have an increasingly up-to-date catalogue; it does not list upcoming titles before publication, but you can get those details in advance from our site. Their telephone sales staff are legendary for helpfulness; they don’t even groan when I nag them. This collection is shipped all over the world.

You may of course find BBC Worldwide products in shops, or available from Internet sites. (As with printed books, I don’t have any links to retail outlets, other than my publishers, simply because there would be far, far too many to list.) If you buy direct, however, I am told it should be cheaper because the Audiobook Collection’s direct mail price is a concessionary price for individual customers. That famous Internet seller does buy at a huge discount but doesn’t get the concession – so in this case you won’t get it if you buy from them.

Articles

  "Well how did this happen?" Texas Classics in Action, summer 1997 
(You may also like to read "Lindsey Davis: An Interview with the Author of Silver Pigs" Texas Classics in Action,  winter 1993)

  "A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Benghasi"  A Shot in the Dark (now Shots) Winter 97/98  (editor, Mike Stotter, can be contacted at mike_stotter@yahoo.co.uk)

  "Snakes and Snails and Search Engines"  CA News, June 1999  

  "What's in a Trianomina?" CA News, June 2000 

  "We who are about to cry..." (on 'Gladiator') forthcoming CA News.