A God in Every Stone is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by a storyteller of dizzying ambition and talent.

Opening on the eve of the First World War in the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, the novel ends with a bloody massacre in the heart of the British Empire in India. And running through it, like a secret river, is the story of an ancient lost treasure, a silver circlet, given to the explorer Scylax by the Persian King.

Vivian Rose Spencer is fascinated by the history of ancient empires, and in the summer of 1914 she finds herself fulfilling a dream by joining an archeological dig in Turkey. It is here alongside young Germans and Turks that the young English woman will fall in love with an old family friend, the distinguished archeologist, Tahsin Bey. As she begins to see the world through his eyes, she also shares his obsession with finding Scylax’s lost silver circlet.