Photo gallery

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Walk the streets of Chester, and you’re walking the streets of the Roman fortress of Deva - where Book One is set.

There must be a story to this… a coin in the hand, lost while Northamptonshire was still part of the Roman Empire. Rediscovered in 2006.

Fabulous washing facilities for archaeologists

The sort of thing British archaeologists get excited about.

The sort of thing French archaeologists have on the doorstep (it’s the Maison Carree in Nimes).

Taking a break from researching the next book.

Roman engineering. This aqueduct used to power a series of watermills at Barbegal in southern France. (Oh, how I wish I hadn’t worn those trousers.)

Sunset over Saint Oswald’s chapel, on the line of Hadrian’s Wall.

Visiting Dittons Library, April 2008

The draft of the map for Ruso and the Demented Doctor/Terra Incognita. Evidence that novelists are not necessarily artists. The shading is odd because this is scrawled onto a white board and photographed. (Novelists are not necessarily photographers, either.)