London is about the ever-flowing River Thames. In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across. London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. It was fun but because there was so much to work in, it was technically complex to write.Ī. A grand, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. Every object has a human story, if only we could guess it. When I go into a museum now and see the objects, - a golden ring, a clay pipe, a sword - I don't just see an artefact any more, I see something that belonged to a person just like you and me, with hopes and fears and loves. Working with them really changed the way I looked at museums. They'd found a Roman leather bikini as well, which reminded me to give him a girlfriend.Ī. London, Russka,The Forest, Dublin and Ireland Awakening all draw on finely researched details of social history. His first book, Sarum was based on the history of Salisbury.

That became the story in the Roman chapter of the book. Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. It had been used to produce forged coins in Roman times, and the curator and I spent a while imagining together the little guy who might have used it, and how he might have been nearly caught. One day, for instance, one of them showed me a little clay mold they'd just dug up outside the Old London Wall.

These curators and historians let me use their library, shared their knowledge and corrected my texts. I was very fortunate in finding a wonderful team to help me at the Museum of London which is the best and most creative historical museum I know. You turned to London next, a place you knew well.

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