Review of Palatine by Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times, in the  Daily Mail:

‘Palatine tells the story of Rome between Augustus, the first Roman emperor who died in 14 AD, and the military hero Vespasian, whose rule from 69 to 79 AD brought a long period of political stability and financial expansion. With vivid prose in short, dynamic chapters, Stothard also covers the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, Jewish unrest at the time of Christ and the invasion of Britain, but this extraordinarily well-researched, exciting book is more a tale of increasing wealth and prosperity rather than war, as well as corruption, greed, gluttony and desire.’

Link to review:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-11996525/New-book-reveals-rulers-Rome-tended-meet-exceedingly-sticky-ends.html