Ask the Author: Julia Ibbotson
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Julia Ibbotson
I've recently written the first book of a new series of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) time-slip/time travel novels of mystery and romance. Anna Petersen is called to investigate the runes on the hilt of a 6th century dagger found at an archaeological dig site. But the grave in which it's discovered holds an intriguing secret - and Anna gets drawn into the world of Mildryth of Mercia!
Julia Ibbotson
Currently I'm working on sequels to A Shape on the Air, in the Dr DuLac series. The Dragon Tree is a historical time slip again, and is about medievalist and academic Dr Viv DuLac and Rev Rory again. But this one is set on Madeira island and is focused on the present day and the 14th and 16th centuries. The third, The Rune Stone, is with my intrepid pair back in the UK and again focuses on the dark ages, 6th century AD, and, in the present day a mysterious rune stone in Rory's churchyard.
Julia Ibbotson
I love the medieval period and in fact studied it at university for my first degree. A Shape on the Air is set in the present day and 490 AD, so very early medieval - the dark ages, really. I am also intrigued by time slip and concepts of time and what it means, parallel universes, and so on.
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