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Max Adams is a writer, archaeologist and woodsman whose work explores themes of landscape, knowledge and human connectedness with the earth. He is the author of Admiral Collingwood, Aelfred's Britain, Trees of Life, the bestselling The King in the North, In the Land of Giants, The First Kingdom and The Museum of the Wood Age. He has lived and worked in the North East of England since 1993.
In this this remarkable book, Max Adams breathes new life into the royal families of the largely forgotten Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, which we can now see played a crucially important role in the foundation of the emerging kingdom of England. * Francis Pryor, author of The Fens * Praise for Max Adams: Gripping, hugely enjoyable and deeply scholarly * History Today Books of the Year * A Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages * Tom Holland, The Times * Adams never forgets to ask what it looked like to the people on the ground * London Review of Books * A worthy synthesis of what little we know * Gerard de Groot, The Times *
