7th Century

Menewood (The Hild Sequence)

By Nicola Griffith - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Menewood is a sequel to Griffith’s earlier novel, Hild, and the reader will get the most from it by having read Hild ...Read Review

The Night Will Have Its Say

By Ibrahim Al-Koni - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

The half century of roughly 680-730 CE was a perilous time across North Africa. Muslim armies out of Syria and Arabia crushed all ...Read Review

The Bastard of Colonia

By Thomas James Samuel Hayes - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set between 692 and 695, this book portrays the childhood of Charlemagne’s grandfather, Charles Martel. Taken from the forest into which he and his ...Read Review

Haven

By Emma Donoghue - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

The medieval monastic ideal of ora et labora (prayer and work) makes for a surprisingly compelling and suspenseful adventure in the hands of ...Read Review

Shadow of the Empire, The (A Judge Dee Investigation, 1)

By Xiaolong Qiu - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Judge Dee Renjie is not a judge, but the people have bestowed this title upon him, an official with many functions. During the 7...Read Review

For Lord and Land (The Bernicia Chronicles, 8)

By Matthew Harffy - Published 2021

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

AD 651. War continues to rage across Anglo-Saxon England as kings indulge their passion for conquest. Oswiu of Bernicia looks for an excuse to ...Read Review

Saxon Heroines: A Northumbrian Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)

By Sandra Wagner-Wright - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

England, 7th century. Amidst a landscape of warring kings and shifting political alliances, four women will change the fate of Northumbria. As the ...Read Review

Fire Queen

By Joanna Courtney - Published 2020

Genres:

There is nothing better than that feeling, sustained from the first page to the last, that you’ve stumbled upon a new favourite ...Read Review

Fortress of Fury

By Matthew Harffy - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure

AD 647. Anglo Saxon Britain. Penda of Mercia has travelled north with his allies. Beobrand, leader of men, warrior, brave and feared by his ...Read Review

Warrior of Woden (The Bernicia Chronicles)

By Matthew Harffy - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

AD 642, Anglo-Saxon Britain. Oswald has been King of Northumbria for eight years. Beobrand, the king’s war leader, is now a wealthy warlord ...Read Review

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