http://medievalbookworm.com/reviews/harold-the-king-by-helen-hollick/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://medievalbookworm.com/reviews/harold-the-king-by-helen-hollick/#comment-6 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:23:39 +0000 http://chikune.com/blog/?p=34#comment-6 Harold the King is my favourite of Helen Hollick’s novels. Have you also read her novel A Hollow Crown, which covers the life of Emma of Normandy and her marriages to Aethelred Unraed (Ethelred the Unready) and then Cnut? I found it felt longer and slower than Harold the King, but enjoyable nonetheless.
There isn’t a lot of Anglo-Saxon fiction around, is there? If you’re interested in the era, you may like to try Wolf Girl by Theresa Tomlinson, set in the even more neglected seventh century (review with more details here: http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/wolf_girl.htm), Fay Sampson’s two novels on the conversion of the English to Christianity (Flight of the Sparrow, http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/flight_sparrow.htm) and Land of Angels (http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/land_angels.htm), Bernard Cornwell’s current Uhtred series set at the time of Alfred the Great’s war against the Danes (military adventure with lots of battle scenes), Octavia Randolph’s Circle of Ceridwen trilogy (also set in Alfred’s time, and available online at http://www.octavia.net/), and if you’ve read all those you might even consider taking a look at my Paths of Exile (http://www.carlanayland.org/exile/index.htm).

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