My Mum introduced me to ‘The Last Kingdom Just last year, when I was 11, and I have become a keen reader of the series since. They are amazing! I admit that I am only half way through the second book; but I am eager to read all of them. I love your books, because they describe everything so vividly that it’s like you’re actually there! It’s so interesting to see the world of the 9th century completely reversed from how we are taught to see it: for once the Vikings have some background, and are not just menaces who come to land, pillage, and then disappear. And I love, (although perhaps I shouldn’t!) the way the Saints were revealed; often in a rather unsaintly way, and above all else, the fact that, although some of the book is fiction; it is a novel, all the true elements of the story are simply displayed as they were, with no myths or legends to support them; and that’s what makes the series so individual. I am sorry to burden you with my endless ramblings (I assume you get many letters like this), but thankyou so much for listening, from Bethan