Sophia McDougall is a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
Life and career
McDougall is best known internationally as the author of
alternate history
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...
novels published by
Orion Publishing Group and based on the premise that the
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Roman people, Romans conquered most of this during the Roman Republic, Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of ...
survived to contemporary times. She studied English at
Oxford University
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...
.
Books
Romanitas trilogy
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''Romanitas'''' (2005),
Orion Books –
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Rome Burning'' (2007), Orion Books –
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Savage City'' (2010), Orion Books –
Other novels
*''Mars Evacuees'' (2014), Egmont –
*''Space Hostages'' (2017)
External links
Review of ''Romanitas''
Living people
21st-century English novelists
English dramatists and playwrights
British alternative history writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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