8th Century
St. Agnes and the Selkie (Cuthbert’s People)
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One day, a drenched and seemingly mute young woman knocks on the gate to the abbey of Whitby. Her dark colouring has the ...Read Review
The Wistful and the Good (Cuthbert’s People)
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Northumbria, 793: A thegn’s daughter, fifteen-year-old Elswyth, has been betrothed since infancy to Drefan, ealdorman of Bamburgh. Much depends on that marriage, including ...Read Review
The Valley (The Druid Chronicles, 2)
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In Linden’s fictional eighth-century Britain, Saxon Christians dominate while descendants of Celtic Druids survive in the secluded valley of the title. Set ...Read Review
The Saxon Wolf (Fire Born 2)
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In AD 773, Bjarki Bloodhand, a legendary berserker, is now Fire Born and inhabited by a fierce spirit while he’s fighting. Bjarki fears ...Read Review
Learwife
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This challenging novel will invite comparisons to Lauren Groff’s Matrix. Like that novel, this one’s protagonist is an aristocratic woman forced ...Read Review
A Night of Flames (A Time for Swords)
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Following directly on from the very successful A Time for Swords, Hunlaf, a young monk turned warrior, continues to develop not only his ...Read Review
A Time for Swords
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AD 793, Lindisfarne. Hunlaf is a young novice monk based at the Minster at Werceworthe (Warkworth) on the Northumbrian coast. On a fine spring ...Read Review
The Last Berserker (Fire Born Book 1)
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In a small village on an unremarkable island, Bjarki is saved from being hanged by a secretive merchant, Valtyr. Completely baffled by the ...Read Review
The Oath: The Druid Chronicles, Book One
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The Oath is a tale of Druids and Saxon Christians in 8th-century Britain. The Mother Goddess-worshipping Druids, executed as witches if discovered, survive ...Read Review
The Saracen Storm: A Novel of the Moorish Invasion of Spain
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Any Spanish schoolchild over the age of nine will have heard of the battle of Covadonga and how one man led his Christian ...Read Review