Francis Pryor was born in London in 1945. After studying archaeology at Cambridge he emigrated to Toronto where he joined the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum. His books include his ‘Britain’ series: 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 The Making of the British Landscape (Penguin). He has appeared on Time Team and presented a number of programmes for Radio 4. In 2014 Unbound published Francis’s first work of fiction, The Lifers’ Club, and Penguin published HOME: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Prehistory. Francis lives in Lincolnshire.