The Death of Men Tapa blanda - 2004

Allan Massie was born in Singapore in 1938 and brought up in Aberdeenshire, before reading History at Trinity College, Cambridge, and spending thirteen years as a teacher. His first novel, "Change and Decay in All Around I See," was published in 1978. In the years since then he has written seventeen novels, including an historical series set in ancient Rome. These widely successful works have been translated into fourteen languages. He was a Creative Writing fellow at Edinburgh University from 1982 to 1984 and at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde from 1985 to 1986. He was editor of "The New Edinburgh Review" for two years, and has worked as a television critic and a sports columnist. He has also been the principle fiction reviewer for the "Scotsman" for over twenty-five years, and a columnist for "The Daily Telegraph" and the "Sunday Times."