He is also the author of three historical novels, Undreamed Shores (2012), An Accidental King (2013)[1] and Omphalos (2014).
Patton was educated at Hautlieu School, Jersey, and went up to Clare College, Cambridge in 1983 to read Archaeology & Anthropology.
He completed his PhD thesis at University College London in 1990 on Neolithic Communities of the Channel Islands.
In 1997, Patton unsuccessfully contested the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency for the Labour Party.
[3] In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was the following year appointed as a member of the governing body of the Museum of London.