Warwick Pearson’s first novel was born out of long-standing careers in both archaeology and history.

Warwick trained as an archaeologist at the University of New England. He completed an honours degree in the prehistoric archaeology of Cape York, and a doctorate in the historic industrial archaeology of England and Australia. As a consultant archaeologist, Warwick’s work took him from the distant prehistoric to recent historic past all over Australia and overseas. 

Having discovered a love of lecturing to undergraduates while completing his doctorate, Warwick has taught ancient and modern history at senior schools in NSW for a quarter of a century and loved every minute of it. The joy of bringing the past to life is one of the driving forces behind his writing.

With history and archaeology in his blood, Warwick went back to Macquarie University to complete a Masters of Egyptology. Through this he achieved a lifetime dream of travelling to Egypt to excavate tombs – an experience that provided an almost infinite mountain of material for his writing. Warwick says he “loves nothing better than being down a hole in a desert” and that he has “come to love the modern people and culture of Egypt just as much as the ancient”.

It’s not just archaeology and history that are in Warwick’s blood. Another passion is learning and this took him back to the his old alma mater to complete another Masters degree, this time in creative writing.

Having successfully finished his first novel, Warwick has discovered a new driving force — the love of writing. Warwick has published non-fiction academic work in various fields of history and archaeology, but he says “nothing has equalled the life-changing joy of discovering and unleashing my creative talent in fictional form”. We’re sure you will enjoy living in the past with his characters, as much as he enjoyed bringing them to life.