Viking Fire
$35.39
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2017
Summary
A Times Book of the Year ‘A literary, intelligent read from a masterful storyteller’
In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia and ultimately to Constantinople and the Holy City of Jerusalem.
Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses, the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349123394 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034912339X |
| Author: | Justin Hill |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 30mm |
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Inspired … with wonderful, poetic passages, Hill reaches beyond the limits of the genre and … harks back to the halls of our Saxon forebears in those dark days - Guardian on Shieldwall
Written in supple, intelligent prose … SHIELDWALL is a vivid historical novel … Entirely convincing - Sunday Times on ShieldwallHill’s sense of place, landscape and home is really good. His particular discovery is how he makes his characters’ internal lives. I shall be waiting for the next novel in the trilogy - Observer on SHIELDWALLAbout The Author
Justin Hill
Justin Hill was born in the Bahamas, and grew up in York, attending St Peter’s School. He studied Old England and Medieval Literature at Durham University, and spent most of his twenties on postings with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and East Africa.
He has written poetry, non-fiction and fiction, which spans eras as distant from one another as Anglo Saxon England, in Shieldwall, to Tang Dynasty, China, in Passing Under Heaven. His work has won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award, as well as being selected as a Sunday Times Book of the Year (Shieldwall) and a Washington Post Books of the Year (The Drink and Dream Teahouse).
In 2014 he was selected to write the sequel to the Oscar winning film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
He lives near York.
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