Tansy’s Hot Cup of History essay series continues with a two-part tale of the Roman poet who specialised in snark, adultery and Sapphic allusions… and still found time to slag off Julius Caesar and friends.

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Tansy’s Hot Cup of History essay series continues with a two-part tale of the Roman poet who specialised in snark, adultery and Sapphic allusions… and still found time to slag off Julius Caesar and friends.

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Crown Tourney, or: how to win a crown, a kingdom and a wicked fairy in Ten Easy Tournaments” was first published in my collection of fairy tale retellings; Crown Tourney (2025)

The wicked fairy Carabosse cursed Princess Aura years ago, and is now trying to make amends by providing the one thing a princess needs to win back her kingdom on the tourney circuit: a wife.

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