Higgins Charlotte. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain

Random House, 2015. — 304 p.This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of "Roman Britain" has meant to those who came after Britain’s 400-year stint as province of Rome – from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse?Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW camper van. Via accounts of some of Britain's most intriguing, and often unjustly overlooked ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined, and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence.Charlotte Higgins is the author of three books on aspects of the ancient world. The most recent, Under Another Sky, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) prize for non-fiction.
Charlotte is the Guardian's chief culture writer, contributing long-form articles and editorials to the paper. She spent a year in 2013-14 working on a series of essays about the state of the BBC, which she adapted into her book This New Noise. She has also written for the New Yorker, Prospect and the New Statesman; and has written and presented documentaries for BBC radio.
Charlotte won the 2010 Classical Association prize, awarded for the person deemed to have done most to bring classics to a wide audience. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and has an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University, in her home region of the Potteries. Her next book, Red Thread, is published in 2018 by Cape. It will be about mazes and labyrinths.