On the surface, Ian Mortimer’s The Outcasts of Time has everything an historical novel should have. It was full of sumptuous description, historical
detail, and a plot that was both gripping and plausible.

But, as I read on, I began to notice that the author was not telling the whole story.

The Outcasts of Time is a novel about the history of the British Empire. It is a novel about the British Empire in the 19