Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: John Whitbourn
John Whitbourn, a former archaeologist and SF author, has had nineteen books published since winning the BBC &Victor Gollancz 'First Fantasy Novel' prize (judged by Terry Pratchett, among others) with A Dangerous Energy in 1991. Most of his fiction is set in an alternate history in which Elizabeth died of smallpox and Mary, Queen of Scots took the English throne, resulting in a Catholic counter-reformation.
His poem From Place to Place won the 2022 Cædmon Prize for the best poem in the Old English style.