Geatland in the first decades of the 6th Century.Under the benevolent rule of King Hrethel and his sons, the king's grandson is carefully groomed by the family in the skills and duties of the warrior elite. But shadowy forces scheme and plot, and as the boy reaches adulthood a death tears the dynasty apart.Sensing weakness the Swedes harrow the northern provinces, and Beowulf must fight his first desperate battle to save the kingdom.... Sword of Woden, Sorrow Hill, is the first in a bestselling series of novels which tell the early life story of a great northern hero.PRAISE FOR THE SWORD OF WODEN SERIES'Entertaining and building into a really good trilogy. If you like Bernard Cornwell or Simon Scarrow you will love this.'PRAISE FOR THE KING'S BANE SERIESThis is a book the likes of friends Cornwall, Kristian and Low, would give their eye-teeth to have written...do what you can or must to get hold of this book, you won't regret it. SPEESH READSPRAISE FOR THE CONQUEROR OF ROME SERIESThe real test of writing a series is the answer to the question, 'Do I want to read on?' I look forward with pleasurable anticipation to volume two, having enjoyed this far more than most of the commercially published fiction I have read and reviewed in the past two years.HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY REVIEWS