The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

Praise for Pompeii: The Living City‘An immensely evocative, well-written and powerful portrait of what life was really like in Pompeii’ Tom Holland ‘A bold, vigorous and original book’ Times Literary Review‘Imaginative and new. Evocative, precise, kaleidoscopic and enormously vivid’ Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill‘It is the great achievement of this book that we feel that we know these people, and their tragedy moves us. The life and death of Pompeii is evoked with verve and authority’ ObserverButterworth, Alex is the author of 'The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents', published 2010 under ISBN 9780224078078 and ISBN 0224078070.