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…
2020? Goodbye to all that!
So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody’s trying to have fun but . . . well, you all know what’s…
Two old heroes, two new novels
You may have heard rumours that I’ve written two new Outlaw Chronicles novels this year, starring Robin Hood and Alan…
Robin Hood rides again . . . in the 10th volume of the Outlaw Chronicles
It with great pleasure, and not a little pride, that I announce the publication today of Robin Hood and the…