#HistoricalFiction author, G K Holloway, is explaining why 1066 is such an important date in English History #History #BattleOfHastings @GlynnHolloway

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In the Shadows of Castles



Bondi is a royal housecarl, legendary warrior and one of the few survivors of Hastings. He is eager to avenge his king who was killed at the hands of England’s new masters. Normans are roaming the kingdom now and they are greedy for power; hungry for land. No one is safe.After the slaughter of 1066, rival factions fight to overthrow the invader and put an Englishman back on the throne – but who? Which claim should Bondi support?As England descends into chaos and the ruthless King William falls on the people like a ravenous lion, the housecarl struggles to find a way to survive.Can the English rid their country of this Norman tyrant? And what should Bondi do about the beautiful Morwenna?
A gripping tale of love, rivalry and violence, firmly based in a true story.
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G K Holloway After leaving school, G K Holloway did several jobs before taking A Levels at his local college and later a degree in History and Politics at Coventry University.Once he had graduated, he spent the next twenty years working in Education in and around Bristol. After reading a biography about Harold Godwinson, he studied the late Anglo-Saxon era in detail and discovered a time of papal plots, court intrigues, family feuds, loyalties, betrayals, assassinations and a few battles. When he had enough material to weave together fact and fiction, he produced his award-winning novel, 1066 What Fates Impose; the first in a series about the Norman Conquest.G K Holloway lives in Bristol with his wife and two children.

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