Iggulden explains his desire to leave the character when he still had much left to accomplish, rather than tracing him through to his eventual downfall, as he did with Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan. Whilst Iggulden had initially confirmed on his official website that he would be writing two more books after Empire of Silver on Kublai Khan, the author's note at the end of Conqueror states that it would be the last in the series. In September 2010 Empire of Silver was released, which revolves around the life of Genghis Khan's son, Ogedai. Bones of the Hills, the third book in the series, was released on 1 September 2008. Then followed his second book, Lord of the Bows, on 2 January 2008.

His first book, Wolves of the Plains, was available from 2 January 2007. This book was published on 26 September 2013.Īfter completing the fourth book in the Emperor series, Iggulden began research for his next series of books, the Conqueror series, based on the life of Mongol warlords Genghis, Ogedai and Kublai Khan.

The author has written a fifth book in the series, Emperor: The Blood of Gods, which deals with the rise of Augustus and events after the end of The Gods of War. The film option has been sold to Spitfire Productions (an Intermedia company). The series is based around the life of Julius Caesar, from childhood ( The Gates of Rome) to his eventual betrayal and death ( The Gods of War). Iggulden's debut book was The Gates of Rome, the first in a currently five-part series entitled Emperor. In August 2014, Iggulden was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. They have four children and live in Hertfordshire, England, near Chorleywood Golf Club. He is married to Ella, who is from the Amalfi Coast in Southern Italy and whose family are renowned craft pasta and ravioli specialist producers in the region. He eventually left teaching to write his first novel, The Gates of Rome. He then went to St Dominic's Sixth Form College, before he studied English at the University of London, and went on to teach the subject for seven years, becoming head of the English department at Haydon School, where one of his students was Fearne Cotton. He went to Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary in Ruislip, Middlesex, then attended St Martins School in Northwood, before moving on to Merchant Taylors' School. In 2007, Iggulden became the first person to top the UK fiction and non-fiction charts at the same time.īorn in 1971 to an English father (who was an RAF pilot during the Second World War, ) and Irish mother (whose grandfather was a seanchaí). He also co-authored The Dangerous Book for Boys along with his brother Hal Iggulden. Connor Iggulden ( / ˈ ɪ ɡ əl d ɛ n/ born ( )24 February 1971) is a British author who writes historical fiction, most notably the Emperor series and Conqueror series.

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