I wanted an epic tale, and I finally found it in A Time of Courage. I needed to go on a journey, see and feel the bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood amidst danger and despair. The kind of story where your emotions are torn from your body a burning hatred for some characters and deep, heartfelt respect for others. I was truly yearning for one of those stories that quicken the pulse and floods adrenaline into the system.
Nothing seemed to capture and hold my attention. I then tried to re-read some I had attempted before, and just could not find my way into the stories. I picked up a number of books, tried to read them, and subsequently put them back down. It is inspired by Norse mythology, Beowulf and Ragnarök.For some time before buying this book I was feeling a deep literary malaise. My latest book, The Shadow of the Gods, book 1 of the Bloodsworn Saga, will be published in May 2021. Book 1, A Time of Dread, begins 130 years after the events of the first series.Ī Time of Courage, book 3 Of Blood and Bone, made the Spiegel Bestseller’s List in Germany. My second series, of Blood and Bone, is set in the Banished Lands, the same world as the first series. The following three books in the series – Valour, Ruin and Wrath, were all shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novels of 2014, 20. That was a truly wonderful moment, as David Gemmell is a hero of mine and one of the reasons I write. Malice, my debut novel, was published by Pan Macmillan in 2012 and went on to win the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut of 2012. I live on the south coast of the UK with my beautiful wife, three sons and my daughter, and an assortment of animals (at the moment three dogs, a horse and a lamb who thinks she’s a dog). I’m also a Viking re-enactor and enjoy nothing more than standing in the shield wall with my three sons, who are as passionate about swords and axes as I am (when I’m not stuck in my coat of mail it’s harder than it looks). I am the author of epic fantasy series The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone and The Bloodsworn Saga.
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