A Time for Swords by Matthew Harffy

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Book name:	A Time for Swords (2024)
Category:	Historical Fiction
Author:	Matthew Harffy
Pages:	498 pages
ISBN:	1838932887
Language:	English
Publication data:	Dec. 10, 2020, 8 a.m.

Lindisfarne, AD793. The life of a novice monk will be changed forever when the Vikings attack in a new historical adventure from Matthew Harffy.

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 AD793, 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.

Hunlaf soon learns that there is a time for faith and prayer... and there is a time for swords.

About the author

Matthew Harffy

2 books

Matthew Harffy is the author of the action-packed series of historical novels, the Bernicia Chronicles. The ninth in the series, Forest of Foes, is due for publication in December 2022.

Matthew’s 2020 novel, Wolf of Wessex, was his first departure from the seventh century. Taking place a couple of centuries later in the early years of the Viking Age, it tells the tale of ageing warrior, Dunston, as he tries to find a man’s vicious murderers, keep the victim’s orphaned daughter alive and uncover … Read more