Albion's Glorious Ile: A Hand-Colouring Book from the Songs of Poly-Olbion
Anne Louise Avery and William Hole
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This is the first time Hole's Poly-Olbion maps have been printed as a collection of this kind.The...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists...
Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes
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Artemisia Gentileschi's uniquely powerful painting Judith Slaying Holofernes is a quintessential...
Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos
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Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what...
The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone
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This is Killian's confession - a strange tragedy about love, ambition and incredible food - Killian...
The White Castle
Orhan Pamuk and Victoria Holbrook
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From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a...
David McK (3721 KP) rated The Savage Isle (Savage Isle Series book 1) in Books
Feb 22, 2026
It's been a while since I last read any by the author - indeed, a while since (I believe) he has published any - the last I read being, I believe, "Marston Moor", so I was a bit unsure if I would read this one or not.
In the end, I'm glad I did.
This is, largely, a 'coming of age' tale that sheds some light on the pre-Roman Britain and the culture therein, which modern evidence has shown to be more sophisticated than originally thought (after all, "history is written by the victors" and all that), following the main character of Cullen as his tribe (the Atrebates) is first destroyed by the Catuvellauni, and then finding himself fighting for the very same against the Roman invaders.
I reckon I'll pick up the inevitable sequel.
Coventry's Medieval Suburbs: Excavations at Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street 2003-2007
Paul Mason, Iain Soden and Danny McAree
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Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street comprise three suburban streets which stood...
