A journey around the archeological and cultural remains of Roman
Britain by the award-winning author of It's All Greek to Me.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Thwaites
Wainwright Prize and the 2014 Dolman Travel Book Award
Charlotte Higgins's previous books include the acclaimed Under Another Sky- Journeys in Roman Britain, which was shortlisted for awards including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for non-fiction, and Red Thread, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Arnold Bennett Prize 2019. She is chief culture writer of the Guardian, a past winner of the Classical Association prize, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She lives in London.
Wonderfully written and full of unexpected facts. Higgins brings
Roman Britain into the present.
*Richard Sennett*
Beautifully crafted… The beauty of this book is not just in the
elegant prose and the precision with which she skewers her myths.
It is in the sympathy that she shows for the myth-makers, the men
and woman who so very much wanted their very own Roman Britain.
*The Times*
Mesmerising… Sophisticated and passionate. She personalizes the
story in a diaristic, almost poetic tone…her prose reminds me at
times of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn…similarly haunted by a
sense of a past slipping away.
*Guardian*
Smart and up-to-date, sensitive but hard-headed, impeccably
researched but gloriously poetic. The layering of themes, moods and
topics is staggering. There's nothing like quite it.
*Tom Holland, author of 'Rubicon' and 'Persian Fire'*
Under Another Sky should be on every shelf in the UK. Part
travelogue, part handbook and part revisionist history, it is a
personal and vivid encounter with landscapes, artefacts and people…
Beautifully considered and written.
*New Statesman*
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