“Ready, Steady, Dig!” by Rosalind Winter
synopsis:
“It is AD 400 and the final days of the Roman Empire. The barbarians are coming. In the heart of England, a Roman family hide their treasure beneath their beloved villa. They pray to their Lares, their little household gods, to protect their wealth until they come home again. But they never return.
“The Lares, six-inch stone figurines, do their duty, watching over the gold plate and coins for 1600 years. Then TV’s favourite archaeology programme, Ready, Steady, Dig! (which sounds suspiciously like Time Team) arrives and starts digging into the mud. The Lares face their finest hour.
“This is the starting point for Rosalind Winter’s delightful tale of a clash between ancient Rome and modern Britain. It is one of the most engaging and intelligent books I’ve read for ages. It is shot through with wit and imagination, and rings with echoes of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.
“I read it in four intense sessions, and finally put it down with that same sense of joy I felt back in 1979 when I first read Adam’s classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
(from a review by Peter Rhodes, writing in the Wolverhampton Express and Star)
or if that’s too long …
When you have spent the last sixteen hundred years faithfully guarding a precious hoard of gold and silver buried in the foundations of a Roman villa, the arrival of a bunch of TV archaeologists is seriously bad news. But the little household gods of the Villa Corvo have ways of deterring intruders that the makers of the popular programme Ready, Steady, Dig! could never have dreamed of …
This great book is from the YouWriteOn stable and is recieving well deserved ‘rave reviews’
