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Hodder buys three new Riches
22.09.08 Benedicte Page
Hodder fiction editorial director Carolyn Caughey has bought three books in a historical series from debut novelist Anthony Riches.
The first title, Wounds of Honour, is set on Hadrian's Wall in 181 AD and features a young Roman officer sent away from home after his family fall foul of the Emperor Commodus. "The story has lots and lots of fighting, impeccable research and brilliant atmosphere too," said Caughey, who bought world English rights from Robin Wade of Wade & Doherty.
She added that Riches, who has a background as a territorial soldier, plans in later volumes "to take the hero far and wide through the Empire during a really violent period in its history”.
Wounds of Honour will be published in trade paperback in August 2009.
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