by Richard Barager | Sep 27, 2026 | Book Updates
I’m delighted to share the new Kirkus review of my forthcoming historical novel, The Twelve Tables: A Novel of Ancient Rome. “Barager’s novel is thoughtful, thoroughly researched, and historically accurate…skillfully achieves an appropriate balance of factual...
by Richard Barager | Sep 16, 2026 | Book Updates
In this dynamic historical offering, Barager (The Atheist and the Parrotfish) presents the coming-of- age of a young man who rises from a bonded servant to a prosperous merchant during the early Roman Republic. In 462 BCE, 16-year-old Marcus Atilius’s farmer father...