LOST REALMS (PB)

These are the stories of nine kingdoms that hover between history and fable, humming with saints and gods, giants and battles, miracles and ruin - kingdoms with names like Elmet, Dumnonia, Rheged and Fortriu. From the Scottish Highlands to the Cornish coast, this book brings together new archaeological revelations with fragments of written records to rebuild a lost world where the halls of farmer-lords survive as ghost-marks in the soil, the vestiges of hill-forts cling to rocky outcrops, and barrow-mounds shelter the ancient dead.