A Time for SwordsWhen the Vikings attack, a novice monk's life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. 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

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But his investigation soon reveals that the disappearance heralds something much darker

In a preface to the book

Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback

complete with 45 rooms

Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world

Ronald Checker

Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers

'Evocative and unsettling

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A baby boy is stillborn