Book description
Hunlaf battles peril and intrigue on a dangerous voyage to Muslim Spain. AD 796. Sailing in search of an object of great power, Hunlaf and his comrades are far from home when they are caught up in a violent skirmish against pirates. After the bloody onslaught, an encounter with ships…
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1 author picked A Day of Reckoning as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon age is very popular in historical fiction at the moment, but Matthew Harffy’s new novel, his best yet, takes us away from the familiar environment of north-eastern Europe to explore the world of al-Andalus—Muslim Spain—instead.
Through the eyes of Hunlaf and his crew, we get to journey through a fabulous and exotic landscape, but the momentum of the storytelling never flags. What I find most impressive is the way that Harffy uses a propulsive action-led plot as a vehicle to explore an amazingly rich and colourful historic environment and to portray a fascinating encounter between very…
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