Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 978-0-00-732399-9 |
No of pages | 550 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | HarperCollins |
Published Date | 02 Apr 2009 |
I was born in the normal way in 1971, and vaguely remember half-pennies and sixpences. I have written for as long as I can remember: poetry, short stories and novels.
It’s what I always wanted to do and read English at London University with writing in mind. I taught English for seven years and was Head of English at St.
Gregory’s RC High School in London by the end of that period. I have enormous respect for those who still labor at the chalk-face. In truth, I can’t find it in me to miss the grind of paperwork and initiatives.
I do miss the camaraderie of the smokers’ room, as well as the lessons where their faces lit up as they understood what I was watering on about.
My mother is Irish and from an early age she told me history as an exciting series of stories – with dates. My great-grandfather was a Seamanship, so I suppose story-telling is in the genes somewhere.
My father flew in Bomber Command in WWII, then taught math and science. Perhaps crucially, he also loved poetry and cracking good tales.
Though it seems a dated idea now, I began teaching when boys were told only girls were good at English, despite the great names that must spring to mind after that statement.
My father loved working with wood and equations, but he also recited ‘Vitali Lambada’ with a gleam in his eye and that matters, frankly.
I’ve always loved historical fiction as a genre and cut my teeth on Hornblower and Tai-Pan, Flashman, Sharpe and Jack Aubrey.
I still remember the sheer joy of reading my first Patrick O’Brian book and discovering there were nineteen more in the series.
I love just about anything by David Gemmell, or Peter F. Hamilton or Wilbur Smith. I suppose the one thing that links all those is the love of a good tale.
That’s about it for the moment. If you’d like to get in touch with me leave a comment in the forum or you can tweet me @Conn_Iggulden.
I’ll leave it there for the moment. If you’ve read my books, you know an awful lot about the way I think already. There’s no point overdoing it.
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The powerful and exhilarating third novel in Conn Iggulden’s No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan
The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies.
Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mutilated or killed; his trading gestures rebuffed. So, dividing his armies, using his sons as generals of the various divisions, he sends them out simultaneously in many directions, ranging as far as modern Iran and Iraq.
As well as discovering new territories, exacting tribute from conquered peoples, laying waste the cities which resist, this policy is also a way of diffusing the rivalries between his sons and heirs and working out who should succeed the khan.
This, the third book in the Conqueror series, is once more an epic story. Genghis Khan is an exhilarating and heroic figure.
The sense of his ambition and his power, the relationships with his wives, sons and trusted aides, the sweep of his conquests, is all brought together by a masterful storytelling. It is a compelling read. With each book, you are left, even more, longing for the next.
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