Have just read The latest chronicle of Uhtred. A fine read. My favorite so far in that series is ‘The Last Kingdom.’ I have read Harry Harrison’s trilogy, ‘The Hammer and the Cross,’ based upon similar historical events and characters as your Saxon series. Harrison’s Erkenwald is a nasty critter indeed. Harrison’s novels are an ‘alternate history’ view of the same period of time, have you ever thought to write ‘alternative history?’ Ed