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History, Humor, Science

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About this author

Justin Pollard was born in Hertfordshire and educated at St. Albans School and Downing College, Cambridge where he was president of the Poohsticks Society.

Since then he has written nine books, a few articles for magazines like History Today, BBC History Magazine and the Idler and he is currently one of the writers of the BBC panel show QI.

He is one of the founders of Unbound - http://www.unbound.co.uk - a new crowd-funding site putting authors directly in touch with their readers.

He also runs a company called Visual Artefact which provides scripting and historical advice for feature films. His credits include Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Elizabeth’, Joe Wright’s ‘Atonement’, Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

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Gentles All,
The good news is that for once it’s not because I have another book out, so there should at least be a little comfort in that. Having said that I have started a publishing business which perhaps amounts to much the same thing.

Unbound.co.uk gets authors to pitch ideas for as yet unwritten books and then asks readers to pledge support for ones they’d like to read. Only the books that... read more »
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Alfred the Great: The Man W...
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Seven Ages Of Britain
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