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I'm really excited to reveal the cover for my upcoming second novel, All Our Broken Idols.

This is a story about art and loss, set in the 7th century BC during the final days of the Assyrian Empire, and in the Fall of Mosul in 2014.

Coming 28th May 2020, from @BloomsburyBooks.
The book has been five years in the writing, and has included multiple trips to Iraq as part of my PhD on the cultural significance of ruins.

I've spent weeks exploring the ancient ruined sites there like Babylon, Ur and Uruk. It has been a huge labour of love.
The book's story revolves around the Lion Hunt carvings of King Ashurbanipal, some of the most haunting and beautiful pieces of art ever to come out of the early ancient world.

Since the first time I saw them in 2014, I knew I wanted to write a book about them.
In the spirit of getting into the minds of ancient artists, I even learned to do some rudimentary stone carving...
If you want to support the book, pre-ordering is one of the best things you can do to help. You can use any of the links below:

Bloomsbury: bloomsbury.com/uk/all-our-bro…
Book Depository: bookdepository.com/All-Our-Broken…
Amazon (UK): amzn.to/2NudBiQ
Amazon (US): amzn.to/30sCBfi
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-orders a copy. I can't wait to share this story with you on the 28th May!
If anyone would like a signed copy, please email my local independent bookstore the @bookhive (contact@thebookhive.co.uk) and request a copy, then I'll drop in and sign it and they'll ship it out for you.
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One of the strangest stories of the discovery of an ancient ruin is that of the Victorian explorer and circus performer William Leonard Hunt.

He claimed to have discovered a lost, ruined city in Southern Africa's Kalahari Desert. But no one else has ever been able to find it.
Born in New York to strict disciplinarian parents, Hunt moved to Canada in the year 1843, at the age of 5.

One day, he snuck away from home and saw a troupe of traveling performers passing through his town. This began a lifelong infatuation with the circus.
Hunt began secretly practicing to become a performer himself, and trained to be a tightrope walker and strongman, finally taking on the stage name "The Great Farini".

Hunt took part in a number of famous tightrope walks, including over the Niagara Falls in 1860.
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Taking a walk up to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monasterythat later became a Benedictine abbey.

The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on Whitby's East Cliff.
The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1545. It thereafter fell into ruins.
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Some of the world's most melancholy ruins are the concrete remains of the Maginot Line.

This border wall of concrete fortifications, traps and weapon installations was built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany, and today it forms a tragic monument to those days.
After the horror of the First World War, it was clear to many in Europe that the world had reached a new phase of armed conflict.

Much of the countryside of Eastern France was now a ruined and pockmarked wasteland.

(📷aerial view of Fort Vaux in ruins, 1916. Verdun.)
French decision-makers knew that the victory of 1918 had relied on the help of the British Empire & the United States.

With a return to isolationism in the UK & USA, France now had no guarantee of this kind of help in future wars. They knew that alone, France could be defeated.
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