Blood and Blade took me on a journey with Beobrand from Wessex to Din Eidin. He was meant to fetch the future wife of Oswald of Northumbria, but problems along …
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The Cross & The Curse is the second instalment of Bernicia Chronicles written by Matthew Harffy. This would also be a re-read for me since I’ve already forgotten what happened …
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The Serpent Sword began a story about Beobrand, a regular farmer guy who travelled to Bebbanburg in 633. His mission was to seek his brother, Octa, a warrior in the …
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I have made up my mind about Bjarki as the main character in this series; I don’t like him. I liked Tor better now. She progressed; she fought like a …
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The Last Berserker is a story set in 772. It follows a young man, Bjarki Bloodhand, and his adventures in a world where Charlemagne’s wages war with the Saxons.
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The Huntman’s Tale is the third instalment in the Oxford Murder Mystery series by Ann Swinfen. Learning from the previous one, there weren’t bodies laying around Oxford or mysteries to …
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The Novice’s Tale is the second instalment in the Oxford Murder Mystery series by Ann Swinfen. By the title, I pretty much guess that my suspicion about something from the …
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With it’s magnificent cover, The Bookseller’s Tale can be a story about anything. Is this about a murder of a bookseller? Or the bookseller is the murderer? Is/are the murder(s) …
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Wolf of Wessex begins when Odin, the dog, led Dunston to a corpse in the forest. Accompanying the corpse was a cart full of valuables. A bit later on, Dunston …
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The Unquiet Bones is the first book in the series of Hugh de Singleton adventure in the late 1300s Bampton, England. I don’t remember how I found Melvin Starr books, …
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A Time for Swords is a tale of cultural discoveries, a self-revealing journey and friendships created after the raids of the Norsemen in Lindisfarne.
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Pillars of the Earth is one of those books that I will treasure forever. I will not trade or re-sell it as a preloved book. I am going to hold …