Book description
A NATION WILL FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM.
Scotland in turmoil. Robert Low at his best.
A nation's independence hangs in the balance.
After fleeing to France following his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk,
William Wallace has returned to Scottish soil to face his fate. But
Robert the Bruce now stands between him and the crown. Warring factions,
political intrigue and vicious battles threaten at every turn. Both men
face uncertain futures, their efforts thwarted by shattered loyalties,
superstition and rumour.
In these troubled times, it is murder, treachery and the bitter rivalry
amongst Scots nobility that will shape the long and bloody rise of
Robert the Bruce to his coronation. Praise for The Oathsworn Series:
'Robert Low's Oathsworn series is historical writing at its best and
most full-blooded, with its tremendous pacing, black comedy, a
wonderfully vivid and rough-hewn prose style like runes hacked into
granite, and most appealingly of all, its doomy, pagan sense of
comradeship-unto-death between Orm Rurikson and his band of Viking brothers'
WILLIAM NAPIER
'A company of warriors, desperate battles, an enthralling read'
BERNARD CORNWELL
'A fantastic book, one of the best I have read for years. There's a
wonderful earthiness to proceedings and he creates a tangible sense of
being there. There's a sturdy, lyrical and epic quality about the
writing which makes it feel like the kind of saga a Viking would recount
in his old age.'
SIMON SCARROW Robert Low has been a journalist and writer since the
age of seventeen. He covered the wars in Vietnam, Sarajevo, Romania and
Kosovo until common sense and the concerns of his wife and daughter prevailed.
To satisfy his craving for action, having moved to an area rich in
Viking tradition, he took up re-enactment, joining The Vikings. He now
spends his summers fighting furiously in helmet and mail in shieldwalls
all over Britain and winters training hard. He lives in Largs, Scotland.
