See listing for Persona Non Grata at Amazon. See listing for Persona Non Grata at Powell's Books Review of Personal Non Grata by Ruth Downie I've only done enough sailing to find out what a coward I am - perhaps some of my own terror is captured in that chapter! I spent my childhood summers in a coastal town where the sound of the maroon would bring the local butcher rushing out of his shop to grab his bike and pedal down the hill to become part of the lifeboat crew, so I have great respect for the power of the sea. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own and a hero readers will root for through every adventure. Your opening scene, in which an unfortunate man finds himself trapped in the hold of a cargo ship, is alarmingly vivid. Spinning a fleece on a hand-held spindle takes ages, and shows just how valuable clothing must have been. Woad plants aren't hard to grow, but my attempt at dyeing was hopeless. Ruth Downie (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating 8,646 ratings published 2006 48 editions. My own stabs at recreating ancient skills have given me enormous respect for our ancestors. Average rating 3.95 25,733 ratings 2,684 reviews shelved 51,740 times. In the process I learned all sorts of things that don't necessarily appear in the books, but hopefully underpin the text. Unfortunately pots and post-holes don't speak for themselves, but I spent many happy hours wandering around modern reconstructions of Iron Age houses. by (author) Kate Quinn, Eliza Knight, Russell Whitfield, Christian G. Of course we can still walk the landscape and there's plenty of archaeology. Books by Ruth Downie: A Year of Ravens, A Song of War. There are plenty of wonderful Celtic tales but we don't know how old they are, nor how much was changed by the monks who finally wrote them down. Researching the Ancient Britons is tricky because we have almost no written sources beyond the dubious opinions of visiting Romans. How did you research Tilla's cultural heritage and world view? Relatively little is known about the Brigantes. Tilla, a/k/a "Darlughdacha of the Corionotatae among the people of the Brigantes in Britannia," is an especially lively and engaging character. I managed to bluff for the required three chapters, but when it came to writing the rest of the book I had to get down to some serious research. I wanted a character in tension, and decided to have an off-duty medic torn between his moral duty to help someone in need and his wariness of getting involved in somebody else's problems.
He was created for a 'start a novel' competition run by the Historical Novel Society. Tabula Rasa Ruth Downie 4.16 1,604 ratings155 reviews The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. What gave you the idea to write about a physician sleuth?Īctually Ruso didn't start out as a sleuth - I foisted that upon him later. Persona Non Grata is the third in the series, and we were fortunate to be able to interview the author, Ruth Downie, on July 2, 2009 The first mystery in Ruth Downie's Gaius Petreius Ruso series, Medicus, about a Roman army doctor posted in Britain, was a New York Times bestseller.
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