Blast From the Past, No.1: Holy Warrior
A few days ago my daughter asked me how many books I had written, and I had to think for…
And in other Robin Hood news . . .
I have a deadline in a few weeks to deliver the next Fire Born volume (The Saxon Wolf) to my…
What I’m writing about this week, #9: Saxon religion
Today Obermarsberg is a suburb of a leafy town called Marsberg (estimated pop. 20,000) in North-Rhine/Westphalia. However, this ordinary, even…
14 things you (probably) didn’t know about Robin Hood
Fourteen years ago (in the spring of 2007) I started thinking seriously about publishing my first novel. I began getting…
The history and the fictions behind my new novel The Last Berserker
I always try to make it clear which stuff in my novels is historically accurate, and which stuff I have…
The Last Berserker – the winners of the Free Book Friday giveaway are . . .
I held a competition last week to celebrate the publication of the paperback version of The Last Berserker and I’m…
Free Book Friday – The Last Berserker paperback giveaway
To celebrate the publication of The Last Berserker, the first novel in my new Viking saga (Fire Born 1), I…
A historical novelist’s guide to becoming a Viking berserker
I belong to a wonderful organisation called the Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) and a couple of weeks ago I wrote…
Extract from The Last Berserker: Prologue
The day has come. It’s finally here. The Last Berserker, the first volume in the Fire Born series, my new…
The Great Wall of Denmark
I watched The Dig last night, a movie about the 1939 excavation of an Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo,…