My latest book ‘Wild Ruins BC‘ (Wild Things Publishing) is my most ambitious work to date. It took me three years to complete, during which time I traveled the length and breadth of Britain. It was an extraordinary adventure, taking me to distant and remote corners of the country. Rather than take the standard route, focusing on just megaliths or stone circles, the book charts ALL of human prehistory. Beginning with the first human footprints 800,000-950,000 years ago on a Norfolk beach, it takes the reader to Paleolithic cave shelters, Mesolithic burial sites, Neolithic Axe Factories and Megaliths. It then finds some of the most spectacular Bronze Age burial mounds and windswept hill-forts.
A lot of work went into the Writing of Wild Ruins BC and although no author writes for just financial gain (they are in the wrong business if they do!) it doesn’t hurt to make a little back. Typically an author’s receives 5-10% of books revenue from online purchases. Buying direct from an author might cost a little more but it gives them a fair share of the sale price and helps ensure more books like Wild Ruins BC are written.
From the Introduction of Wild Ruins BC :
“The creation of this book was not just an adventure of the body but also one of the mind. I had set out to understand the world of our ancestors. From the earliest footprints trodden on British shores over 800,000 years ago to the coming of the Romans in 43AD. The more I studied, the more fascinated I became with these strange, alien cultures that once shared our lands. Why did they go to so much effort to erect lonely megaliths and stone rows, and what did they use them for? Did the stone circles of Dartmoor and Bodmin have the same purpose as the recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire? Were the hillforts of Somerset and Dorset a meeting ground or defensive structures? Who made the engravings of cup and ring marks into the stones of Northern England and southern Scotland, and what did they signify?
The more I studied, the more I realised how little we really know for certain of these mysterious and ancient people.
Wild Ruins BC took me three years to write and has been my most ambitious work to date.