This book celebrates some remarkable authors-historians, teachers, novelist, from Joseph “Iscanus” in the twelfth century to J .K. Rowling in the twenty-first – whose stories link the city with the ancient world of Greece and Rome in all kinds of eccentric and inspiring ways.

And if you have ever wondered why Marcus Curttius in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter is “leaping into the gulf” with that very steadfast expression, this is where you’ll find the answer, and why it matters.