“Athelstan. The Making of England”
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers – now in paperback The formation of England happened against the odds – the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred ensured […]
“Deliver us from Evil”
A restoration tragedy of revenge and redemption “Tom Holland is a born storyteller” – Guardian Deep winter, 1659. A killer is abroad on Salisbury Plain. Roundhead officer Captain Foxe fears that the horribly mutilated bodies found at ancient pagan sites point to a more than mortal cause. A long-buried evil, from the very depths of […]