Of all the woman warriors in myth and legend, few are more storied than Boudicca, the fierce red-headed queen who led the most celebrated Celtic rebellion in history. But, here, for the first time, Jan Surasky imagines Boudiccas enthralling story of bravery and triumph from the Celtic perspective.
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In her extremely researched, vividly told novel, Boudicca bursts to life as Of all the woman warriors in myth and legend, few are more storied than Boudicca, the fierce red-headed queen who led the most celebrated Celtic rebellion in history. But, here, for the first time, Jan Surasky imagines Boudicca’s enthralling story of bravery and triumph from the Celtic perspective. In her extremely researched, vividly told novel, Boudicca bursts to life as never before.
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After a politically matched marriage to a much older king her world turns dark. Romans invade and at the king’s death attack the palace, breaking a pact that would have saved the tribe from doom, publicly humiliate Boudicca and assault her two young daughters. Betrayed and outraged she leads thousands of warriors into an epic battle to avenge her daughters and rid her beloved island of Roman tyranny. Beautifully written, grand in scope and intimate in detail, Rage Against the Dying Light resonates with the queen’s indomitable spirit placing her alongside no lesser woman warrior than Joan of Arc herself. Rage Against the Dying Light, by award winning author Jan Surasky, is a brilliantly written novel about Boudicca, Britains legendary warrior queen.
Boudicca led a fierce and vengeful Celtic rebellion against the Roman Empire during the first century. While the Romans fought for greed, she fought for her country, her freedom and to avenge her young daughters violated by Roman soldiers when they swarmed her palace to overtake the Iceni kingdom.Born an aristocrat of the Coritani Tribe, Boudicca is Rage Against the Dying Light, by award winning author Jan Surasky, is a brilliantly written novel about Boudicca, Britain’s legendary warrior queen.
Boudicca led a fierce and vengeful Celtic rebellion against the Roman Empire during the first century. While the Romans fought for greed, she fought for her country, her freedom and to avenge her young daughters violated by Roman soldiers when they swarmed her palace to overtake the Iceni kingdom.Born an aristocrat of the Coritani Tribe, Boudicca is a princess destined to become a queen. As a young girl she prepares for her duty.
She learns well the history, the culture and the traditions of the Celtic tribes. She also enjoys her childhood playing Tag and Run and Hide the Boar’s Tooth with her brother. She gathers violets for Beltane, the Spring Rites Festival. It’s her favorite festival. She plays with friends on the beautiful countryside overlooking the Devon River that runs down to the North Sea.
Boudicca spends time among the oak trees in the Sacred Grove and ponders life, religious rites and omens. She watches for the signs of the hare to foretell the future of the Celtic Race. Before Boudicca was a queen, a wife, and a mother, she was a carefree princess of royal descent, loyal to her country and proud of her ancestors’ undefeated legacy and freedom. Later on, her vengeful rebellion toward the Romans will serve to make her a monumental figure of British History.Boudicca marries the powerful King Prasutagus of the Iceni Tribe. They enjoy a bountiful royal life and are blessed with two daughters. Prasutagus has formed a loose alliance with Rome as a client king who answers to them, but rules his kingdom independent of the Roman tyranny imposed on other Celtic tribes.
A century has passed since Julius Caesar conquered Gaul and attacked the Celtic mountain tribes of Germania: Boudicca’s flaming haired ancestors. Caesar had vowed to conquer all the barbaric tribes of the British Isles. After Tiberius, the mad Emperor, Caligula, reigned for a time then Claudius comes into power.
Claudius and the Roman Senate want to finish what Caesar started almost a hundred years ago: conquer all of Britain! Each year more tribes fall under Roman rule as the empire expands. Boudicca takes quiet notice.After a long illness, Prasutagus dies and leaves half his kingdom to the Emperor of Rome and the other half to his daughters. He believed they would be allowed to rule their kingdom and live in peace. Prasutagus was wrong. Little time passed before Roman soldiers overtake the palace and enslave the royal family.
Queen Boudicca is humiliated, severely beaten with a whip and her daughters are brutally raped by Roman soldiers. It’s a vicious attack and seems a sacrilegious insult to the Iceni Tribe and their Gods. Betrayed and outraged, Boudicca, barely recovered, declares war! She gathers hundreds of thousands of Celtic warriors who resent oppression from Rome and no longer want to live like Roman pawns.
Their bloody rebellion lasts for months as they sack and defeat three major strongholds of Rome. Londinium (ancient name for London), Verulamium (ancient name for St. Albans), and Camulodunum (ancient name for Colchester), are leveled and burned to the ground.
Boudicca is remembered as Britain’s first heroine, a powerful queen with flaming red hair, willing to fight to her death.Rage Against the Dying Light is written from a Celtic view verses the traditional Roman accounts of Boudicca, unsympathetic to her cause. In this historical fiction, Boudicca’s early years and motivations for her uprising come to vivid life winning, author Jan Surasky, the Eric Hoffer Award for Commercial Fiction as acknowledged in the US Review of Books.
This sensational story will speak to anyone who enjoys history.
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Slowly Jared begins to ingratiate himself with the local literary Short Story:Mario, a Lower East Side coffee shop owner befriends a youth named Jared, a shy, introverted poet who spends his days sitting outside the shop begging for change. There is more to Jared than meets the eye and it takes the help of Mario’s assistant Kaitlin to help coax Jared out of his shell. Slowly Jared begins to ingratiate himself with the local literary community due to the weekly poetry readings Kailin had begun to stage at the coffee shop. But some strange customers begin appearing, those who don’t like the idea of this kid hanging around the shop and Mario begins to navigate the line between compassion and the changing character of the neighborhood.
Julian Gallo lives and works in New York City. His poetry has appeared in over 40 journals throughout the Unites States, Canada and Europe. He is the author of 9 poetry books, 'Standing on Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion' (Alpha Beat Press 1996), 'The Terror of Your Cunt is the Beauty of Your Face' (Black Spring Press 1999), 'Street Gospel Mystical Intellectual Survival Codes' (Budget Press Julian Gallo lives and works in New York City.
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His poetry has appeared in over 40 journals throughout the Unites States, Canada and Europe.
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