Kevin Crossley-Holland

Norse Myths […] will delight both the newcomer and the Norse aficionado.” - The Guardian "A book to be treasured for generations” - Daily Mail The gods of the Vikings come to life as never before in this extraordinary illustrated anthology by Carnegie Medal-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland and artist Jeffrey Alan Love. These dramatic, enthralling, and atmospheric tales are based...

It is 1202, and thousands of knights and footsoldiers are mustering in Venice for the Fourth Crusade. Among them is young Arthur de Caldicot, squire to Lord Stephen. It is thrilling to be part of this huge gathering; but as Christian falls upon Christian and Saracens draw their scimitars, Arthur's eyes are opened to the realities of war. Looking into...

A tale of star-crossed young love set against the backdrop of the Viking invasion of York, from a master storyteller. Kata and Tor follows Tor, the youngest son of Harald Hardrada, King of Norway and leader of the Viking fleet. His countless victories have been woven into song, his prowess the stuff of legend. Kata, on the other hand, knows...

The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo and anticipate the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life. '...as bright...

Dramatic, compelling and comprehensive - the great cycle of Norse myths retold for the modern reader. The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic, and compelling of the world's great stories. A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings,...