Well ….. Bernard, if I may :), even though you are an established author, you have surpassed yourself this time with ‘Sword Song’. It seemed ages since I had read ‘Lords of the North’ & I thought I might struggle to get back into it but no! as soon as I had read maybe 5 pages I was right back in there with Alfred, Pyreg, Gisela to name a few & of course the Lord of Bebbenburg, Uhtred himself. Your description of the fight around the open gate of Lundene was superb …. The only thing missing was Ragnar, I know he got a mention but when I read nis name I always think of Kirk Douglas in ‘The Vikings’ so I think he should get more involved, just to help Uhtred a bit more :). Any way, as I say excellent stuff just hurry up with the next volume, I can’t be expected to wait another year ….. please. Oh, just in case any of your fans are interested, my copy was bought for me at Christmas, signed as well, my other half say’s she looked on google.co.uk, entered ‘signed swordsong’ … this brought a few dealers up in the UK some may still have signed stock, you never know. Thank you again for this superb series.
Barry McNiel