The House of Wolf

<p><b>Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of <i>Blackadder </i>and <i>Time Team</i> - makes his adult fiction debut with this earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England. <br></b><br>______<br><br><b>Rome</b><br>Father Asser is waiting to die.<br><br>His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on false charges of heresy, but then salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better Europe, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has an important job for Asser, one that will take him home to Wessex.<br><br><b>Wessex</b><br>King Aethelwolf's power is fading, but none of his feckless children are fit to rule.<br><br>His eldest sons would rather fight each other than the blood-thirsty Norlander invaders. His daughter, Swift, is clever and cunning, but sometimes blinded by her ambition. Finally there's Alfred, his once-promising younger son, whom nobody has seen in years.<br><br>Then Wolf meets a young priest with a proposition from Rome that could change everything. <br><br><b>Lindisfarne</b><br>Rhiannon is a slave who wants to see her Saxon captors punished for their crimes. So when she meets Guthrum, a Norlander hell-bent on wiping Wessex from the map, she sets out on a journey of destruction.<br><br><b>So begins an epic struggle between greed and idealism, ambition and betrayal, freedom and tyranny. Because change always meets with resistance and, on the path to power, nobody can be trusted. </b></p>