7th Century
Dark Winds Rising
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It is the year 602, and Wales is not yet united. Small neighboring kingdoms fight viciously against each other. Amid this disunity, and continually ...Read Review
The Serpent Sword
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AD 633, a time of upheaval and war. Beobrand, a young man with a shadowy past, travels to the kingdom of Bernicia in the ...Read Review
Penance of the Damned
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In 671 AD Ireland, Fidelma and her brother, King Colgu of Cashel, are shocked to learn of the murder of their esteemed bishop, Segdae, ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Witch Who Faced the Fire
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York, 7th century A.D. Young Aldith is only five when the plague comes. Her father is a tanner, who turns animal skins ...Read Review
Oswiu: King of Kings
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Oswiu has replaced his much-loved brother, Oswald, as the Anglo-Saxon king ruling Bernicia (Northumbria) from his stronghold at Bamburgh. Oswald has been killed ...Read Review
Cloak of Ashes: The Women of Beowulf
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Seventh-century Scandinavia: Freawaru, the daughter of a king and the lover of the renowned warrior Beowulf, is a seer in her own right ...Read Review
The Second Death
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It is 671 AD, and the beginning of the summer season in the Irish kingdom of Muman, where Fidelma’s brother is king and ...Read Review
The Empress of Bright Moon
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The Empress of Bright Moon, Weina Dai Randel’s second novel of Mei, the woman who became Empress Consort Wu, the only female ...Read Review
The Sparrow and the Hall: Love and Betrayal in Anglo-Saxon England
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In 7th-century England, the churl Edgar marries his love, Gwenda, and his thane, Keelwolf, pays a brief visit to the wedding party. The ...Read Review
The Breaking of Dawn (The Kingdom of Mercia, Book 1)
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Jayne Castel maps a classic troubled love story onto a much broader canvas of war and political intrigue in the first of her “...Read Review
