Justin Hill

Broschiertes Buch

Viking Fire

Beschreibung

A brilliant novel that vividly tells the story of Harald Hardrada (hard ruler), the last of the Vikings.

Autor

Justin Hill was born in the Bahamas, and grew up in York, attending St Peter's School. He studied Old England and Medieval Literature at Durham University, and spent most of his twenties on postings with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and East Africa. He has written poetry, non-fiction and fiction, which spans eras as distant from one another as Anglo Saxon England, in Shieldwall, to Tang Dynasty, China, in Passing Under Heaven. His work has won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award, as well as being selected as a Sunday Times Book of the Year ( Shieldwall) and a Washington Post Books of the Year (The Drink and Dream Teahouse). In 2014 he was selected to write the sequel to the Oscar winning film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. He lives near York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780349123394
• ISBN-10: 034912339X
• Artikelnr.: 47763730