Imperial Governor George Shipway 1968. Condition is good, DJ has some edgewear, some wear on the spine, small sticker on front, boards good, internally clean, no writing or tears, sent Royal Mail Second Class

When the distinguished general, Suetonius Paulinus, was appointed by Nero as the sixth Imperial Governor of Britain in A.D.59, he was instructed to 'make Britain pay' at all costs.

Written in the form of Paulinus's private memoirs, this irresistibly readable novel (firmly based on fact) relates how by diplomacy, both political and amorous, and by force of his legions the new governor strove to bring the territory under Roman dominion.

The narrative vividly evokes the ferocious human struggle that reeled across the wolds, valleys, mountains and fens of Britain in every kind of weather: it reveals too how a strong and capable man's frustrations, culminating in Boudicca's (Boadicea's) rebellion, goaded him to the bitter vengeance that in the end led to his downfall.

'I found it engrossing, exciting and lit by a kind of imaginative realism which makes characters, supposed to have been dead two thousand years, vivid and alive all round you.

I think George Shipway has a considerable future as a novelist and writer. I am reminded of Alfred Duggan.'