Stamford Bridge 1066 – A Viking anthology
A few weeks before the fateful Battle of Hastings, Harold Godwinson fought another bloody battle just outside York. This anthology of short stories and novellas about that earlier battle at Stamford Bridge has been collected together into a book to be published on September 25. It contains contributions from some of the best of historical fiction authors around – Giles Kristian, Matthew Harffy, MJ Porter, Theodore Brun, Eric Schumacher, Peter Gibbons, Justin Hill, Tim Hodkinson . . . and, um, me.
You may have become a little tired of me banging on about the two books I’ve published recently – Robin Hood and the Holy Grail, the final Outlaw Chronicles novel, and Templar Assassin, the second book in my Mongol Knight trilogy. But that is the strange thing about books: none appear for ages, and then three come along all at the same time. Wait! Do I mean books?
Anyway, Stamford Bridge 1066, will be out later this month, and you can purchase a copy in a couple of weeks from Amazon using this link. Alternatively, if you simply cannot wait to get stuck into all that gory short-story goodness, you could get yourself an ARC – advanced reader copy – on the condition that you provide a review. If you want that ARC, follow this link to StoryOrigin.
This is what the Stamford Bridge 1066 blurb says:
Thirteen writers. One battle. The same afternoon, told from both sides of the bridge.
Giles Kristian · Matthew Harffy · Angus Donald · Tim Hodkinson · Peter Gibbons · MJ Porter · Justin Hill · Theodore Brun · Eric Schumacher · Will Dowling · M. Thomas Kingsley · Mark Oxbrow · Åsli & Bakkejord
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 of them 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.
I hope you will enjoy this collection of stories, and will tell all your friends about it. This is the Amazon link to buy the book in due course, and if you want that StoryOrigin ARC, click on this link and follow the instructions.
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