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A Time for Swords

A gripping, addictive historical thriller

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A Time for Swords

By: Matthew Harffy
Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
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When the Vikings attack, a novice monk's life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure.

Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared. They came from the North, their dragon-prowed longships gliding out of the dawn mist as they descended on the kingdom's most sacred site. It is 8th June AD 793, and with the pillage of the monastery on Lindisfarne, the Viking Age has begun. While his fellow monks flee before the Norse onslaught, one young novice stands his ground. He has been taught to turn the other cheek, but faced with the slaughter of his brothers and the pagan desecration of his church, forgiveness is impossible.

“Harffy's writing just gets better and better ... He is really proving himself the rightful heir to Gemmell's crown” - JEMAHL EVANS
Adventure Travel Crafts & Hobbies Europe Fiction Great Britain Historical Fiction Medieval Middle Ages Viking Royalty
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I enjoyed the story about the start of viking age and reading how life was in Anglo saxon England

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