Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough'A scholarly delight, every page glittering with insight [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co host of The Rest is History'A wondrous, gorgeously written book' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan SnowImagine a Viking, and a certain image springs

a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world

How do you know what type of rootstock to use when grafting plants

There he meets an old woman who offers him a deal

Ancona and Bologna

And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally

Taylor has turned to an eccentric billionaire to help fund the Institute

trundle past Prague castle by tram or explore the Franz Kafka museum

King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier

Aaron Philip

Over the next five years he kept this diary

from local leagues in Cordoba to lighting up the biggest stages in international football - and winning the biggest prizes in the sport

' – Aisha Busby