The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
King of Kings begins the Brunanburh series, which recreates the events that led to the mighty battle of Brunanburh, and it’s aftermath. Why was this story so appealing? There are rare moments in the history of Saxon England where we seem to have a lot of information...
The 10th century sees the creation of what we would recognise as ‘England’ – the combining of the Saxon kingdoms of Wessex with Mercia, with the additions of Kent, the kingdom of the East Angles, the Danish Five Boroughs, and the kingdom of York, and also the...
First of all, Nicholas, congratulations on the publication of this endlessly fascinating and absorbing work. In the introduction, you describe the book as a fresh look at the subject rather than a rehash of your earlier work, Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons, some...
Some historians have labelled it a ‘genocide’, whereas other have suggested that what King William I did in the north of England, in the winter of 1069/70, was not out of character with the standards of the time. But, whilst we should always try to avoid projecting...
So, Paul, The Reckoning is the third and final book in the Rebellion trilogy. Bring us up to date with where Thegn Oslac of Acum is now. Yes, it seems a long time since I started the first book, but we’re finally into the home straight now. After the failure of the...
Harold Godwinson – The Greatest King We Never Had? My debut historical adventure series, The Wolf of Kings, focuses on the rebellions that took place post-Norman Invasion. Since these uprisings occurred after 1066, King Harold Godwinson doesn’t feature that...
War: Sense and Nonsense Menewood is the second novel about Hild, known today as St Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. Almost everything we know of her comes from a single document, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (HE), written fifty years after her death by...
