An authentic historical fiction set in England and Europe at the end of the turbulent 8th century CE. A tale of a clash of cultures; and the triumph of courage, resilience and determination over adversity.
On the 8th of June, 793CE, Fenn is a young apprentice scribe at St. Cuthbert’s Monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, England. He is just beginning a relationship with milkmaid Yseld but on that fateful summer’s day, he is violently torn from one life and thrust headlong into another. Two strange dragon-headed ships appear on the beach and savage raiders swarm ashore – the first Viking attack on English soil. Fenn and twenty others are dragged to the Viking ships, leaving the bodies of monks sprawled in the dust and the monastery in flames; the fate of Yseld unknown. The captives are taken to a life of cruel slavery in a harsh and foreign land; to a society that could not be more different from their own. This is Fenn’s story.
OWEN TREVOR SMITH
I now live on the Kapiti Coast of the North Island of beautiful New Zealand, but I have lived and worked in Australia, England, Germany and Switzerland. I share my home with two dogs (Harry and Jacko) and three guitars (not named). I’ve travelled throughout the world for extensive periods of time, and I’ve sailed the Atlantic from England to Brazil in my (part-owned) 41-foot ketch ‘Adastra’.
I like to explore different genres in my writing, so I have written poems (that rhyme!), westerns, science fiction, war, crime, adventure, and children’s stories.View all by Owen Trevor Smith
