The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents.

Alex Butterworth is a writer, dramatist and researcher who has worked across a wide range of media; his projects include television drama-documentaries, virtual online communities, educational websites for major cultural institutions and action-adventure games. He is the co-author of the prize-winning history, POMPEII: The Living City, has recently published his second book THE WORLD THAT NEVER WAS and contributed to the BFI survey of developments in the digital field, New Screen Media. He took a first degree in English from the University of Oxford, holds an MA in Interactive Media from the Royal College of Art and is currently an Honorary Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.