The Wake

Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next...Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of resistance that spread across England in the decade after 1066, it is a story of the brutal shattering of lives, a tale of lost gods and haunted visions, narrated by a man of the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the end of his world. Written in what the author describes as 'a shadow tongue' - a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader - The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past.

Biography
I write about connection, loss, places and the things we never trouble to pay attention to. I write about power and the powerless, about community and freedom, about smallness and beauty and about the unstoppable nature of change. I write about the stories beneath the numbers and the spirits beneath the waters. All of this, and more, and sometimes less.

I have published two books of non-fiction, one collection of poetry and a novel. I have also written far too much journalism. I am co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project (www.dark-mountain.net), a global network of writers, artists, oddballs and outsiders who have stopped believing the stories we all grew up taking for granted.

页　　数：384

版　　次： First Edition edition

正文语种：English