Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction by Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction by Eleanor BarracloughA Times best History Book of the Year 2024'Every page glittering with insight [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook'Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow'A fascinating tour Barraclough looks beyond the soap opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history' The New York TimesIt's time to meet the real Vikings. A

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