Books on the Hill (BOTH) Open Dyslexia Kickstarter.#BlogTour #Review - The Lynmouth Stories by Lucy V.#Review - The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.#Review - Eye of the Sh*t Storm by Jackson Ford.(I loved the way that Gildas's actual habit of denouncing pretty much everybody in his writings carries through to acrimonious relationships with nearly everyone else here.) To these she adds a conflict between the old religion of Celtic paganism and the new Christianity represented by the priest Gildas - also a real person, who wrote one of the few contemporary histories of Britain. But this is a setting that gives an author a great deal of room and Holland takes full advantage, placing this story in a definable place - the kingdom of Dumnonia, in what is now South West England - and associating it with real people (her King, Cador, his successor Contantine, and their Saxon opponents). Again, though, the historical records are scant. It's also sometimes seen the "age of Arthur", a British leader defending his people against the invading Saxons. This period of this book is sometime described as the "dark ages" - a term originally used because of the lack of contemporary written records, but which is now used less because on hearing it many imagine a time of barbarism and decay, which (as this book shows) it was not.
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