10th Century
Alfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age
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The title Alfred’s Britain is misleading, and the sub-title better explains the contents of the book. For sure Alfred figures prominently, but ...Read Review
Estrid
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The second book in the Valhalla Series (after The Unbroken Line of the Moon), Estrid follows Queen Sigrid of Svealand, her twin children ...Read Review
Children of the Chieftain: Bounty
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Though eager to head home, the young crew of the Viking ship Eagle are tasked with carrying a message to the land of ...Read Review
The Abbot’s Tale
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Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury, later Archbishop of Canterbury, and was probably born somewhere between AD 910 and AD 920 in Somerset (we don’...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Shepherd Who Ate His Sheep
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10th century, Maidstone, Kent. This tale is based on a true story of a starving shepherd boy, Edward Medway, who, one winter, cut ...Read Review
Raven’s Feast: Hakon’s Saga, Book 2
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Very rarely does one come across a book written about the man remembered as Hakon the Good or Hakon Adalsteinsfostre. As Mr Schumacher ...Read Review
The Flame Bearer
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Though a fragile peace exists between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Britain and the last Norse-held kingdom of Northumbria, Uhtred begins his campaign to ...Read Review
The Unbroken Line of the Moon
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The 10th-century Nordic lands are locked in a war between the Norse gods and Christianity. Sigrid, a chieftain’s daughter and devout follower ...Read Review
Seven Noble Knights: A Saga of Family, Betrayal, and Revenge in Medieval Spain
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Based on an epic medieval poem, this appealing novel seems a bit of Romeo and Juliet overlaid with Spanish Christians and Moorish Muslims. ...Read Review
The Stones of Winter
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With the caption ‘A Viking tale of myth and magic’ The Stones of Winter is the first in a series of tales about ...Read Review