Shieldwall - Hardcover

Hill, Justin

3.97

447 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408702789 ISBN 13: 9781408702789

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2011

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The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country's great warriors.

When Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking invader. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, and as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close.

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Review:

'Exciting, imaginative and gripping'
--The Times

'With wonderful poetic passages Hill reached 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 eleventh century' --Guardian

'Engaging . . . An exciting, imaginative and gripping reminder that there was life in the old place before the Norman invasion' --Kate Saunders, The Times

'With wonderful poetic passages Hill reached 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 eleventh century' --Guardian

'A vivid historical novel written in supple, intelligent prose.Brings the distant world of pre-Conquest England to life . . . Entirely convincing' --Sunday Times

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A Sunday Times Book of the Year

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