Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Philippe Sands it looks like a routine

it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad

The great war epic of Western literature

Another brilliant 'constellation novel' in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights

the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs

abstract and concrete

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Philippe Sands it looks like a routineA Times best History Book of the Year 2024''Every page glittering with insight [a] wonderful book'' Dominic Sandbrook''Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.'' Tom Holland''Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.'' Dan SnowIt''s time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava