Kirin of the Dobunni

REVIEW BY CHRISTOPHER CATLING Rather than inventing a landscape, Anne Buffoni has set this gripping adventure story within places that can be visited in the Cotswolds. Usefully, she includes itineraries at the end of the book to encourage readers to visit sites such as the Iron Age settlement at Bagendon or to see objects such as the intricately patterned bronze mirror that is a highlight of the Museum of Gloucester and plays a key role in the story. Buffoni clearly wants her young readers to discover and enjoy archaeology, but the book is far from didactic. Against the menacing background of the Roman invasion, the idealistic hero and heroine overcome slavery, injustice, fear and dan