A grand day out with the Celts

How many people can you fit on a war chariot? What did the people Caesar called “Britons” call themselves? Since you’ve finished with that character in your story, can I kill him in mine?

These are the kind of questions that have been bandied about over the summer by the team putting together a collection of interlinked tales to form A Year of Ravens – a novel of the Boudican Rebellion (of which, more when it’s published – hopefully mid-November).

Meanwhile, I’ve been to the British Museum:...