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Anthony Riches is a British writer of historical fiction. As of 2013 he has released five books that follow the story of Marcus Valerius Aquila, the son of a murdered Roman senator who has escaped his father's killers and made a new life for himself as an officer with an auxiliary cohort in northern Britannia. Riches was born in Derby, lived in Worthing, West Sussex from the age of seven and studied Military Studies at Manchester University's Faculty of Arts. He now works as an ERP Programme Director, and has worked for Boots, Glaxo SmithKline, ReckittBenckiser and Barclays, and as a freelance contractor for a number of companies in the delivery of major Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Having written his first book, 'Wounds of Honour' in 1996 he did almost nothing with the manuscript until being motivated to submit it to agents in 2007. His first three book deal, with Hodder & Stoughton, was agreed in 2008, and he has since published five books in the Empire series.