Elodie Harper

May 9, 2024 | l8r.it | Elodie Harper |Melody Razak |Elle Newmark |Gareth Rubin

LoveReading Says Set in AD 79, The Temple of Fortuna, final instalment of Elodie Harper's exhilarating Wolf Den Trilogy opens with Amara surveying an opulent scene from Rome’s Palatine Hill, high above the Imperial palace. As torches flicker over the gold and marble spread before her, she’s all too aware that this wealth “is a different world from the darkness that shaped her in the Wolf Den”.

Apr 7, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Elodie Harper |Dan Jones |Myles Dungan |Will Hutton

Welcome back to theThe Chronicle!As always we are delighted to share our news about historical fiction and non-fiction reads publishing across Head of Zeus' imprints. It's a bumper month for us in terms of historical publishing. We have paperback editions of Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna and Dan Jones' Wolves of Winter as well as Tim Hodkinson's Sword of the War God and Eleni Kyriacou's The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou.

Mar 6, 2024 | bloomsbury.com | Elodie Harper |Gillian Anderson |Tom Kerridge |Sarah J. Maas

I don't think it's a secret that Vesuvius makes an appearance in this book! When I was planning the trilogy I knew the eruption would be a part of the story but didn't want to write a frustratingly abrupt end, leaving readers without proper resolution for the characters. I am also fascinated by the historic events after the volcanic explosion - which are less well known - and wanted to explore this in my own writing.

Nov 21, 2023 | readersdigest.co.uk | Elodie Harper

HomeInspireHistoryCourtesans in Ancient Pompeii: A life of glamour or grind? Author Elodie Harper reflects on what life may have been like for the courtesans in Ancient Pompeii who inspired her trilogy, The Wolf DenThe brothel in Pompeii—called a "lupanar" or wolf den by the Romans—is over 2,000 years old. It is the only surviving purpose-built brothel from the ancient world, encased in ash by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 until its discovery in the 19th century.

Nov 17, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Elodie Harper

For most of us, our image of the Roman town of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79, is shaped by the plaster casts of the victims. Men and women frozen in time. The casts were created in the 1860s, when archaeologists realised that there were cavities in the hardened volcanic ash that had destroyed and preserved Pompeii. When these holes were filled with plaster, surprising shapes emerged, recreating the buried objects that had long since decayed.