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Mark Knowles

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I've loved ancient history ever since I sat down with my folks when I was a little boy and watched my first Ray Harryhausen movie. I read degrees in Classics and Management Studies at Downing College, Cambridge, and emerged not really having a clue about what to do for a wage. After various jobs and a decade working as a frontline officer and supervisor within the Metropolitan Police Service, I changed careers to run a Classics Dept at a school in Harrogate. I am a big fan of experimental archaeology and rowed on the reconstructed Ancient Athenian trireme ‘Olympias’ during her last sea trials in Greece in 1994. I hope somebody builds something similar in the next few years before I'm too decrepit to pull an oar!

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Average rating: 3.51 · 952 ratings · 205 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Argo (Blades of Bronze, #1) 3.40 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Consul's Daughter: A red-blooded crime thriller based on true events 4.19 avg rating — 101 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Knowles made a comment on Full Metal Rabbit’s review of Jason (Blades of Bronze, #2) " Thank you, FMR. Crap grammar as an ancient languages teacher is something I need to be alert to. Also, I really wish I did get a few obols’ equivalent ...more "
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Robert Harris is pretty much my favourite author active today, so anything he writes is an automatic purchase. I was lucky enough to find a signed first edition HB in a second hand store, which was a particular bonus as I devoured it on holiday. One o ...more
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Wow! When teaching A Level students Homer's 'Odyssey' I usually rave about its fantastic layering and how it operates on several levels, which means subsequent readings can tease out new meanings, just like the journey of discovery - of self, other a ...more
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“And still the desperate and the needy came shuffling through the city gates from all parts of the empire in a misguided search for food and shelter and hope.”
― Mark Knowles, The Consul's Daughter: A red-blooded historical crime thriller based on true events

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