The Sodmire Rats

The Sodmire Rats is a comic fantasy with a cast of thousands and a plot more twisted than a Celtic torc. Set in 1987 but told in flash forward from AD 61, it chronicles three days in the life of unassuming Henry Kite, who, unaware that he has travelled two thousand years backwards in time, finds himself sharing a campfire with scantily clad and unnervingly sexy Celtic warrior, Blossom Dart, cocky little Ancient Briton and Roman army deserter, Titus Plebius, and a masked figure in a hooded robe. Three days earlier, says the figure, Henry came unwittingly into possession of a powerful artefact as he was preparing for a holiday on Dartmoor, and from the moment he left home he was pursued by armed robbers, hired assassins, drunken vigilantes, a homicidal burning man and a B-list of mythological characters, one of whom could just be the love of his life.