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R. David Simpson Writes Roman Fictional Novels
I was born in Cambridge England and took a deep interest in history
as a teenager and even more so as I grew older. I started my film
career in the 1980’s and script writing ten years ago. I now turn
my scripts into novelettes.
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My first script and
book were called’ CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EXILE’. I decided to write
this story after talking to my daughter about Rome and Alexandria. I
chose a particular part of her story that is seldom thought about.
When she was twenty, she was forced to flee Alexandria for Syria, as
her brother-husband was trying to kill her off. She came back to
Alexandria, 15 months later with an Arab army. The rest of the story
is ‘history’ as we have learned from Shakespeare and Hollywood!
Book 1: Cleopatra, Queen of Exile
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CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EXILE. Cleopatra is an Infinitely vain, highly intelligent, cunning, a gambler, seductive, queen but over underestimates her brother. When it looks like she’ll soon lose her head, she gets her servants to spirit her out of her palace at night – hidden in a rolled-up rug. and loses her crown to her husband-brother, Ptolemy.Once safely on the road in the desert with a small contingent of loyal servants, she struggles to raise an army to retake her throne. Cleopatra is unused to desert life and is forced to put up with hardships and indignities her privileged upbringing has ill prepared her for. On top of that, she’s forced to stoop to dealing with the lowly desert King Azar in order to find an army for her cause. Well before Cleopatra flees, Greek Oligarchy's wives, who pull the strings from behind the scenes in Rome, manipulate a Roman General, Julius Caesar, to invade Europe for their own profit and his. Caesar then takes matters into his own hands and seeks to use his new wealth to manipulate Cleopatra for his own interests posing as Cleopatra 's benefactor so that he can gain Egypt and Rome at one time. Cleopatra has her own ideas about who is going to manipulate who. After 16 months on the run and just when she succeeds in raising an army, Cleopatra learns that the Romans, led by Julius Caesar, have intervened in Egypt. Carried in the rolled-up rug, Cleopatra returns to throw herself at Caesar’s mercy.
The second book ‘THE
WALL’ – takes place in 410 AD and is about two teenagers and
their families who, with other families and soldiers are ordered to
leave ‘Hadrian’s Wall’ in England and march back to Rome. The
story records their trials and tribulations as they move from England
to Gaul to Italy and face the dangers of tribes that realize that
something is drastically wrong, as the occupiers leave Western
Europe, never to return.
It's the
year 410 AD. The Roman Army commander in ENGLAND, wakes up and finds
orders to evacuate all troops and families,immediately.Two Roman
teenagers of different class, cross paths and work together to
survive the march home.
I
look forward to making these books into films in the UK and Europe.
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The Wall
ISBN-13: 978-1657240148
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Cleopatra Queen of Exile
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