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Nick Brown has an extensive background teaching and writing in the field of archaeology and ancient history and has taught and studied at Leeds and Manchester universities.

Brown later taught at a number of Manchester schools, where he experienced first hand the racial tensions plaguing the area. At one of the schools a pupil was stabbed to death in the playground, an event which Brown has described as ‘life changing’. He moved to Oldham to work for the council, advising schools and planning a reconstruction of a Romano-British Villa with Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit.

Soon after arriving, he was asked to take over the headship of an Oldham school where a pupil had been killed in a racially-charged shooting. Brown later became Prin
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The dead travel fast

The Dead travel fast has gone off for proofing and will be published in June. It is the second in the Ancient Gramarye series and begins six months after Skendleby.
Dead travel Fast follows the Skendleby narrative but is based on the Greek island of Samos which I know well. The island has a disturbing history and some strange gaps in the archaeological record.
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