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Roman Holiday

The Chronicles of St. Mary's

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Roman Holiday

By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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Another rollicking short story from the Chronicles of St Mary’s author Jodi Taylor.

Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife’s house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar - poised to become king of Rome. Or as good as.

Question: At this potentially sensitive point in your political manoeuvrings, who are the last people you’d want crashing through the door, observing, recording, documenting...? I think we all know the answer to that one.

Roman Holiday - an epic, standalone tale set in Ancient Rome, 44 BC, featuring, in no particular order: an attempted murder; stampeding bullocks; Cleopatra, queen of the Nile; a bowl of poisonous snakes; a smallish riot; Julius Caesar; and Mr Markham’s wayward bosoms.

Jodi Taylor is and always has been a history nut. Her disinclination to get out of bed for anything after 1485 can only be overcome by massive amounts of chocolate and sometimes, if it's raining, not even then. She wanted to write a book about time travel that was a little different and, not having a clue how difficult this would make her book to classify, went ahead and slung in elements of history, adventure, comedy, romance, tragedy, and anything else she could think of. Her advice to booksellers is to buy huge numbers of her books and just put one on every shelf.

©2014 Jodi Taylor (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
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A small taster of what's to come in a full length book. Love this series.

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A very enjoyable short story

An easy and fun listen. Very good narration. Good descriptions of both settings and characters.

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Another brilliant story

How does she do it? Time after time deliver a new fresh story, full of laughs and suprises

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the nose was so large

A deserving addition to the St Mary's chronicles and more fun in The Roman Empire. A small fix for the withdrawals of time.

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Lovely little addition to a much enjoyed series, thank you.

I much enjoyed this short story bring back memories of other books in the series.

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Timelines crossed?

Previous books left us in a very different place from where this one started. Maybe I need to be looser with the temporal continuum.
Still loved it together with Zara's performance. Great character presentation

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Just a simple trip to Rome- what could go wrong?

it was meant to be a nice easy trip to Ancient Rome. what could possibly go wrong? just observe and document. But not for Max and her team who could get in trouble in an empty room! Fun, lighthearted story. very enjoyable.

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A Great Short Story.

This time the historians are off.on a contemporary observation of Julius Ceasar in the lead up to his famous end. things do not go as planned!

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What a way to spend a holiday!

St Mary's are up to their usual trouble with the usual suspects. This time they have a go at Rome, and get to see some pretty famous people.
And I still say " historians are the best " not that I'm taking sides with fellow historians.

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A great little twist of the asp tail.

another great little tale from the pen of Jodi Taylor. I really like the twist of us story.

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