Yet, when I remark on his prodigious rate of output, Iggulden looks sceptical. In 2007, he was the first author ever simultaneously to top the UK's fiction and non-fiction bestsellers' charts. Plus, there has been a children's book about tough faeries, Tollins a novella, Blackwater, for 2006 World Book Day and the title with which his name is most readily associated, The Dangerous Book for Boys, co-authored with his younger brother Hal, which has sold four million copies and spawned a whole industry of spin-offs. The fourth instalment of the latter series, Empire of Silver, is out this month. Since his The Gates of Rome appeared in 2003, he has produced a 400-page-plus historical novel every year – that's four of his "Emperor" books (about Julius Caesar) and three in his "Conqueror" series about Genghis Khan – totalling three million in sales. By anybody's standards, Conn Iggulden is a staggeringly prolific author.
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