Stephen Dando-Collins is an Australian

Australian literature

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...

 writer and novelist, with books centred around Antiquity

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...

, American history, British history, Australian history, and French history. He worked in advertising in Australia and Britain as a graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

er, copywriter, creative director

Creative Director

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, and senior advertising agency executive. An independent marketing consultant for some years, he ran the Australian operations of an American market research company before moving to Noosa Heads

Noosa Heads, Queensland

Noosa Heads is one of the three major centres of the Noosa region on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is located north of Brisbane, the state's capital. The Noosa River forms one boundary of the town, the headlands of the Noosa National Park another...

, and then to the Tamar Valley in Tasmania, where he was born, and where he now writes full time.

Books

• Legions of Rome, 2010
• Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer (1 September 2008)
• Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome (18 January 2002)
• Nero's Killing Machine : The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion (1 November 2004)
• The Inquest (22 February 2005)
• Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice (30 September 2005)
• Cleopatra's Kidnappers : How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar (28 October 2005)
• Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor (1 November 2006)
• Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome (1 February 2008)
• Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny: The True Story of the Military Coup That Turned Australia into a Two-Year Rebel Republic (1 October 2007, Australia & New Zealand only)
• Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, the Australasian Rabbit Plague & a Ten Million Dollar Prize(1 September 2008, Australia & New Zealand only. Winner, 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award, Science Writer category. Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
• The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome,' (8 February, 2010)
• The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City.' (7 September, 2010).
• Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion.' (28 October, 2010).