Peter G. M. Lavelle

I grew up in Falkirk, Scotland and graduated in Science at Glasgow University.

I moved to England and lived in London and Milton Keynes for a time.

I also worked in Belgium and the Netherlands for spells.

Now Melbourne, Australia is home.

My day job was in I.T. for many years.

I love family, photography, travel, football, fitness, running and pets and, needless to say, reading and writing.

Historical fiction:

My interest in the Romans started on my first day at school, quite some some ago. Our teacher read a story about the Romans, who got as far north as Falkirk, built Antonine's Wall and decided that was the ultimate edge of civilisation. It was too cold, damp and riddled with uncouth barbarians further north. That wasn't strictly true but it was not too far off.

It was only much later that I found out the Roman Empire didn't entirely disappear in 410 C.E., when Rome was first sacked, but its eastern half lingered on for another thousand years and came to be known to posterity as the Byzantine Empire.

The 'Broken Empire' series invokes a portrait of life in the eastern Roman Empire as the western half fell apart and the 'Dark Ages' set in.

'The Sun Sets in the West' (Volume 0, the prequel) covers roughly the years 466 C.E. to 515 C.E.

'The Bear Keeper's Daughters' (Volume 1) covers roughly the years 500 C.E. to 527 C.E.

'The Mistress of the World' (Volume 2) covers roughly the years 527 C.E. to 548 C.E.

'The Empire of Madness' (Volume 3) covers roughly the years 548 C.E. to 610 C.E.

Science fiction:

As a child, growing up during the space race, one of my early recollections was of Yuri Gagarin's epic first flight of humankind into space.

Then there was the incredible race to get humans on the Moon.

My love of science fiction sparked from there.

'Enemy One' is the first book of 'The Potentiality of Humankind' series, set thousands of years in the future when humankind has expanded out into the galaxy.