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My fiction re-imagines the great political dramas that marked the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the middle ages, blending fact and fiction, romance, politics, and mystery to cast in a fresh light the women who changed Europe at the turn of the first millennium.

My debut novel Lotharingia collected the Gold Medal for World Historical Fiction in the HFC Book of the Year 2021 Contest, was shortlisted for the 2020 Page Turner Awards, and is a 2022 Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice. It reached the Amazon Best Seller no. 1 spot in multiple categories in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Since childhood, I have devoured every tome of medieval history I could lay my hands on. After spending too long in a corporate career, I have taken redun
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Lara Byrne The sequel to Lotharingia, provisionally entitled The Road to Canossa
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Eleventh-century Rome

Spring is finally here, The Road to Canossa will be released next week, and I really fancy a holiday! A few chapters of Lotharingia and The Road to Canossa are set in Rome, a city I would love to revisit, especially in springtime. What I love about Rome, apart from the all pervading-beauty, is its complexity: the layers of history so visible in its buildings, a Roman stone wall topped up by a medi

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