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This is a novel, a murder mystery set in Northumbria around the time of the arrival of Christianity. It's loosely based on the history of Escomb church in Durham. I wrote it a long time ago; I don't know about its quality, but it was the fruit of a…

I am a writer of plays and poetry. My most recent play, 'King Sigbert at Wolferton', is set in 639AD in Wolferton, Norfolk, and follows the adventures of the fictional King Sigbert and his aide in their quest.

The poem is an attempt to personalise an Ango-Saxon warrior from the fragments of archeological material available.

A short piece of fiction with a twist in the tail.

Two poems inspired by Anglo-Saxon history and literature.

A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.

These are poems that take inspiration from the Old English Elegies, transferring them to twenty-first century contexts. They have been previously published in various UK poetry magazines.

A poem inspired by the Anglo-Saxon church of St Andrew at Greensted in Essex, parts of which are estimated to be over a thousand years old; it is possible that the site has been a place of Christian worship for 1,300 years. St Andrew's is the oldest…

I wrote this poem after queuing to see the Staffordshire Hoard.

'Embroidery in Anglo-Saxon England', an A5 book self-published by Elizabeth Norton in the 1990s. A catalogue record is available from the British Library, but the book is now out of print.
ISBN - 0 9521581 1 6.
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