The Dark Ages in Britain are a fertile period to mine. The sources, few as they are, talk of kings and warlords, battles and death, and then arrive the men from the North. It is the period of Beowulf and Arthur, of a Britain living in the decay of the Roman withdrawal and the arrival of a new God to fight the old. Into this mix, Matthew Harffy has thrown a young warrior, Beobrand, into the turmoil of Northumbria to find his fame.

Books, ReviewsMatthew Bone5 May 2017Historical Fiction, History, Britian, Matthew Harffy, Harffy, Beobrand, Dark Ages, Bernard Cornwell, Uthred, The Bernicia Chronicles, Octa, Bebbanburg, David Gemmell, Larry McMurthy, The Serpent SwordComment