Hi!

Been a long-time lurker, and still haven't got my Old English up to the point where I feel ready to start on Old Norse.... yet!

But want to share what I've been working on (anyone want to translate it into ON?!): the first of a series of novels about the Battle of Hasting: Shieldwall.

It was entered into the Booker Prize this year, and came out this summer, and if anyone enjoys a good read then I hope it's a cut above the usual view of the period.

Enjoy!


Justin




What the critics say of Justin Hill's latest novel, Shieldwall

'Must Read!' The Sunday Times

'Written in supple, intelligent prose, which carries echoes of the wordplay in Anglo-Saxon poetry, Shieldwall is a vivid historical novel. Hill not only succeeds in bringing the distant world of pre-Conquest England to life but, in Godwin, has created a complex character whose struggles to be true to his ideas of faith, duty and friendship are entirely convincing.' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times
'The current revival and reinvention of the historical novel is good news for readers, especially when they are as engaging as this one...exciting, imaginative and gripping' Kate Saunders, The Times
'intensely likeable and moving' The Independent

`With wonderful, poetic passages....Hill reaches beyond the limits of the genre and gives us something that has resonance and harks back to the halls of our Saxon forebears in those dark days of the early 11th century' Ian Mortimer, The Guardian
'This book is an undoubted success both as a work of fiction and as a tale of history. It gives a stirring and well-researched insight into the disasters, mishaps and treachery that made life in 11th-century Saxon England such a misery' The Australian


The Reader's Verdict: 4.5 Stars Amazon.co.uk


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