Goodreads asked Stephen Taylor:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Stephen Taylor My latest book -Gospels, was started the same way as all my books, I create a document called conceptualisation and I throw ideas at it. Many people had asked me about one of my previous characters, John Campbell-John, and enquired what became of him. He was Flashmanesque, a lovable rogue, and I set off to tell his subsequent story. By coincidence, I was also reading about bible hunters in Egypt in the 19th century, academic adventurers in search of the earliest copies of the bible. And so my story took an unexpected turn, taking me from London to Venice to Egypt - to the Nile, the Pyramids, to the deserts of Sinai - and a possible redemption of our mischievous anti-hero.

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