Neil Rushton

Neil Rushton is a freelance writer who has published on a wide variety of topics from archaeology to folklore, in academic journals (Archaeological Journal, Journal of Interdisciplinary History et al.), online (Ancient Origins, Beyond Science, Sott), and print magazines/books (New Dawn, The Daily Grail). He also co-authored a guide book to Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey. His first novel (published in 2016) is Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and explores the confluence between consciousness, insanity and reality in a drug-fuelled contemporary setting. His second novel, Dead but Dreaming, is published in July 2020 and tells the story of a young folklorist who travels into rural England in 1970 in search of faerie traditions. They end up finding much more than they bargained for. It is, in essence, a tale of supernatural solipsism. Neil also produces a blog site, deadbutdreaming, which investigates the faeries in both their folkloric and metaphysical guises. Neil received a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2003. The thesis looked at aspects of monastic poor relief in medieval England. Find Neil at https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3054487.Neil_Rushton