A history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.
What The Reviewers Say
Tom Licence,
The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Marc Morris invites us to pursue that feeling; to discover the foundations of our country. His book is packaged as a history of English origins. But whose history is it?.
Dan Jones,
The Times (UK)
Throughout this clever, lively book Morris leans enthusiastically into uncertainty, inviting the reader to figure out the puzzles with him.
Thomas Filbin,
The Artsfuse
The opening of medievalist Marc Morris’s latest book recounts the discovery of a treasure trove of coin, gold, and artifacts found by accident in Suffolk by someone with a metal detector who was looking for a lost hammer.
Kirkus
A comprehensive overview of the Anglo-Saxon era seeking 'to see these people as they were…and try to shed the misconceptions about them that have developed in later centuries '.