The project will go live on the Unbound site on the evening of 20th January in conjunction with an event at Ely Library. Francis will talk about his debut novel The Lifers’ Club as well as giving the audience an exclusive chance to view the new pitch video. There will be an opportunity to ask Francis questions about the new book and find out why he chose the local area as his setting for such a sinister tale.
Protagonist Alan Cadbury, professional archaeologist and amateur detective, returns to the Cambridgeshire Fens in The Way, the Truth and The Death, the anticipated sequel to Francis’s debut novel The Lifers’ Club.
Before starting work as director of an important Roman and Medieval excavation in Fursby, the deepest part of the ominously named ‘Black Fens’, Alan is contacted by his old friend DCI Richard Lane from Fenland CID. A body has been found in a river near the dig and the deceased is a young female archaeologist and friend of Alan’s.
But the dig must go on. The ancient remains are revealed to be outstandingly preserved, exciting the interest of major television series Test Pit Challenge. The book journeys behind the cameras and reveals complex personal rivalries of a live television shoot in a landscape where the community retain long memories. And Alan finds he is being drawn back, relentlessly, into some dark dealings at the heart of this rather remote, rather strange, rural community...
In keeping with other Unbound projects. supporters who pledge for Francis Pryor’s The Way The Truth and The Deaths will have their names printed in the back of all editions of the book. http://unbound.co.uk/
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Francis Pryor is a distinguished archaeologist whose career has included the discovery, in 1982, of Flag Fen, one of the best-preserved Bronze Age sites in Europe. His books include his Britain series (for Harper Collins): Britain BC, Britain AD, Britain in the Middle Ages and The Birth of Modern Britain, two of which were filmed for Channel 4. In 2010 he published (with Penguin) The Making of the British Landscape. He has appeared frequently on Time Team and has presented a number of programmes for Radio 4. His latest non-fiction book, Home: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Pre-History, was published by Allen Lane in October 2014.
The Lifers’ Club, a gripping debut thriller introducing amateur detective Alan Cadbury, is Francis’s first work of fiction. It was successfully crowdfunded in 2013 by 546 supporters and published by Unbound in 2014. The Way, The Truth and The Deaths is the second in the Alan Cadbury trilogy.
Unbound is revolutionary new way to get books published, founded by three authors, John Mitchinson, Justin Pollard and Dan Kieran. Using the www.unbound.co.uk publishing platform, authors pitch their book ideas directly to their readers. Readers choose the ideas that they like on the website and pledge their support. When an idea has enough supporters, the book is written and produced. All supporters get their name printed in every edition of the book and all pledge levels include the e-book and immediate access to the author's shed.
To date Unbound has published books from several well-known authors including Kate Mosse, Julie Burchill, Jonathan Meades, Chris Yates, Robert Llewellyn and ex-Python Terry Jones, as well as a first novel from comedian Katy Brand and the bestselling Letters of Note by Shaun Usher. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, published by Unbound, became the first crowdfunded novel to be longlisted for the Man Booker prize 2014.
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For further information, or to arrange an interview with Francis Pryor, please contact:
Georgia Odd
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020 7834 0116