Out now! Stamford Bridge 1066 – A Viking Anthology
This is anthology pretty interesting and I think it is going to sell well. Thirteen authors contributed, including some of the best historical fiction writers around (and me), each writing a short story around the battle that took place outside York a few weeks before the Battle of Hastings. Check out Stamford Bridge 1066.
On 25 September 1066, a Norwegian army lay resting on both banks of the Derwent, seven miles from York. They had beaten one English army five days earlier and taken the city’s surrender, and the fighting was done. Most had left their mail at the ships.
They were not expecting Harold Godwinson.
The battle that followed ended the Viking age in England. Three weeks later it helped decide a second one, on a hill near Hastings, that everyone remembers instead.
A king who has spent his life outrunning the end of an age. A skald asked to praise a man he no longer believes in. A priest tends the wounded on the eve of a battle nobody knows is coming. A lone axeman on the bridge, and the Englishman in the water beneath him. Afterwards, a farmer walks the field looking for his son, and twenty years later an old earl sits in a Norman prison, still deciding what to tell his gaoler.
The man who holds the bridge in one story is watched from the water in another. Thirteen stories, one day.
Over 100,000 words of Viking historical fiction, published on the 960th anniversary of the battle.
You now can buy Stamford Bridge 1066 – A Viking Anthology from Amazon in paperback and eBook formats.
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