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,…
The Robin Hood files – a virtual talk with Q&A
I was supposed to be travelling to Nottinghamshire in the spring of 2020 to give a talk at the Inspire…
The Last Berserker extract: Chapter 1
I have written a Viking adventure novel – the first of many, I hope – called The Last Berserker. It…
Could the real Robin Hood have been German?
Every five or six years, a new book or magazine article comes out claiming to have discovered the identity of…
So you want to become a berserker?
You’re probably thinking that you need to consume a handful of magic mushrooms, or at least a jug or two…
What I’m writing about this week, #8: The Saxon Wolf
This week, after a nice quiet Christmas break, I began writing the second book in my Fire Born series, which…
Happy New Year to all my friends and faithful readers!
The past year, everyone agrees, has been a bit of a stinker. So as a consolation prize, I am posting…