A writer who can do thrillers and history…
Antonio: He writes thrillers, is a diver and an academic. Trifecta.
Ricardo: He caught a few lucky breaks though. The early 2000s were ripe for Dan Brown-style thrillers with historical twists.
Antonio: He’s got credentials: PhD from Cambridge, fieldwork in underwater archaeology.
Ricardo: I won’t argue with his chops. But success in publishing? Right place, right time? Plenty of brilliant academics never land a book deal, let alone eleven novels.
Antonio: Eleven novels featuring Jack Howard! Sustained creativity. And A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks?
Ricardo: I liked that one, actually. Especially the chapter on the Uluburun wreck. Makes the Bronze Age trade routes feel cinematic.
Antonio: He fell into a good niche. And he’s contributing to understanding of underwater heritage. Still diving. Not just theorizing from a desk but mapping wrecks, finding artefacts.
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Voice-over
Growing up as diver since his teens, Gibbins brings authentic experience to his fiction and his non-fiction. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks is a good read.
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