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Anthony Riches
Anthony Riches is a British writer of historical fiction. As of 2014 he has released seven books that follow the story of Marcus Valerius Aquila, the son of a murdered Roman senator who has escaped his father's killers and made a new life for himself as an officer with an auxiliary cohort in northern Britannia.

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Biography
Riches was born in Derby, lived in Worthing, West Sussex from the age of seven and studied Military Studies at Manchester University's Faculty of Arts. He now works as an ERP Programme Director, and has worked for Boots, Glaxo SmithKline, ReckittBenckiser and Barclays, and as a freelance contractor for a number of companies in the delivery of major Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Having written his first book, 'Wounds of Honour' in 1996 he did almost nothing with the manuscript until being motivated to submit it to agents in 2007. His first three book deal, with Hodder & Stoughton, was agreed in 2008, and he has since published seven books in the Empire series.

Books
Empire


 * 2009 Wounds of Honour
 * 2010 Arrows of Fury
 * 2011 Fortress of Spears
 * 2012 The Leopard Sword
 * 2012 The Wolf's Gold
 * 2013 The Eagle's Vengeance
 * 2014 The Emperor's Knives

Future novels
The Empire series is planned to run to around 25 volumes and take the story of Marcus Valerius Aquila from AD 182 to the end of the reign of Septimius Severus in AD 211. Riches is currently contracted to complete books 7 to 9 of the Empire series. He also plans to write a second series set in a completely different era at some point in the future.

External References
http://www.anthonyriches.com/