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Originally Posted by Quelch
Reading an historical novel, around the early ninth century, set around the area I hail from
I was born in a private house about half a kilometre from the banks of the Kennet river in Reading, near where the Kennet flows into the Thames
The novel is about King Arthur's Wessex forces fighting with the Vikings, Danes from Mercia and East Anglia
Most of the action is around London and the Thames
The author uses place names from that period, it's fun trying to link modern names to the period place names
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Title: Sword Song, fourth book in the series, I haven't read the first three !
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I've enjoyed every book of Bernard Cornwell's that I've read. I think he's one of the best authors of historical fiction around.
Permit me to thank you, by the way, for correctly writing "an historical novel", BTW. So few people bother with this kind of thing these days
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