Under Another Sky

Wonderfully written and full of unexpected facts. Higgins brings Roman Britain into the present. – Richard SennettBeautifully 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. – Peter Stothard * 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. – Tim Whitmarsh * 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. – Ruth Padel * New Statesman *A delightful, effortlessly engaging handbook to the half-lost, half-glimpsed world of Roman Britain… Under Another Sky is an utterly original history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors. – Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *In her gentle, fine prose, [Higgins] suggests convincingly that Britain was thoroughly changed by its two Roman invasions, and that modern Britain is still built on a Roman skeleton. – Harry Mount * Daily Telegraph *Charming, intriguing and not-infrequently elegiac… What is most impressive here, rather than either the erudition of the endeavour, is simply the writing. – Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *Charlotte Higgins looks at what Roman Britain meant to those who, from medieval mythographer Geoffrey of Monmouth to W.H. Auden, subsequently thought about it. – David Robinson * Scotsman *Lyrical, haunting look at Roman Britain and its echo in our culture. * Sunday Times *

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, Red Thread, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Arnold Bennett Prize, and Greek Myths, which was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. 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.

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