Beyond the Book: Background information when reading Medicus

Beyond the Book

This article relates to Medicus

In 2004, Ruth Downie, a librarian from Milton Keynes, won the Fay Weldon section of BBC3’s End of Story competition;

Medicus, her first novel, was first published in Britain as Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls, but simply as Medicus in the USA. The second in the series, Terra Incognita, was published in the USA and UK last month.

Interesting Links:

Pictures of the Roman settlement of Deva (now known as Chester).

An NPR interview with Ruth Downie about Medicus.

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This "beyond the book article" relates to Medicus. It originally ran in April 2007 and has been updated for the March 2008 paperback edition. Go to magazine.