Shepherd.com: Helping Readers Discover The Best Books

I was recently contacted by Ben Fox, the creator of Shepherd.com, a new platform designed to help readers discover books through personal recommendations rather than algorithms.

Shepherd grew out of Ben’s practice of asking friends and family to share their favourite books and to pass those recommendations on to others. My book, Creating Christianity: A Weapon of Ancient Rome, was recommended to him through this process, and he invited me to contribute a list to help launch the site.

Ben explained that Shepherd aims to connect authors and readers by asking contributors to recommend a small number of books they believe deserve attention, along with brief explanations of why.

I was pleased to be invited to take part and to offer my own selection of books on ancient history, which you can read here

My thanks to Ben and the Shepherd team, and I look forward to seeing how the platform develops.