The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Three Men on a Mission: Three Architects of Early Christendom Staying true to its name, the fourth instalment of The Wanderer Chronicles invites the reader to journey far and wide, in company with Viking warrior-in-exile Erlan Aurvandil and his partner in adventure,...
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Alec Marsh is a journalist and author of the Drabble & Harris books, published by Headline Accent. His first Drabble & Harris book, Rule Britannia, is set against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis in 1936 and was described by Ian Rankin as ‘a rollicking good read’. The second novel in the series, Enemy of the Raj, is set in British India in 1937, and was released in 2020. The third in the series, Ghosts of the West, was published in 2021 and sees Drabble and Harris journey to the United States. ‘Marsh's mixture of derring-do and scholarship makes for a fun read and a colourful supporting cast of rogues and spies keeps the narrative hurtling along,’ noted Alexander Larman in The Observer. Marsh is working on the fourth book in the series which is set in Turkey.
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Theodore Brun, why did you choose the Norse era when embarking on your A Mighty Dawn, your debut novel? There are really three points of contact for my interest in the Norse world. I studied Scandinavian archaeology at university, which provided the bedrock of...
Iron & Gold is a distinctive collection of six short stories which span the Middle Ages. There is an overwhelming narrative of honour, integrity, love and timelessness which unite these tales. Additionally, there are interviews with each of the authors after each...
400 years before the First Crusade, Christianity was on its knees before an ascendant Muslim Caliphate. Yet only 80 years before that, in AD629, the late Roman Emperor Heraclius had staged a grandiose ceremony in the city of Jerusalem to mark the Empire’s final and...
A Burning Sea is the third instalment of Theodore Brun’s Wanderer Chronicles. Up until now the series, set in the eighth century, has been a Viking Saga. In this latest book the troubled hero, Erlan Aurvandil, turns his back on the dark pagan forests of Scandinavia...
The modern city of Istanbul has been known by many names. Constantinople, Miklagard, the New Rome, the Queen of Cities, the Great City, Byzantium. But by any name, it has been the setting for many a great novel (and some not so great ones). I suppose when it comes to...
What prompted you to chose the period you wrote your first book in? In fact, the seed was a lecture I attended back in 2009 about an 8th century English missionary called Winfred. (He was later renamed Saint Boniface and is sometimes known as the Apostle to the...
Historians may debate where the dawn of the Viking Age should be placed in history, but from Britain’s point of view, there can be little doubt. In 793AD raiders crossed the North Sea and unleashed a devastating attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne. Such was its...
