About Perfecta Saxonia: The Unification of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by John Broughton:
King Alfred never achieved his dream of uniting the disparate Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into one Perfecta Saxonia.The man destined to fulfill Alfred’s dream is his grandson, Athelstan, as the spark of unity begins in the Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Abandoned by his father and raised by his uncle, young Athelstan faces numerous adversities on his way to becoming a mighty warrior and diplomat.But can he overcome the odds to transform England from an insignificant island off the Western European mainland, into the leading centre of tenth-century diplomacy and learning?Discover the story of one of the most important English kings, who put in place the foundations of modern-day England.
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Hi, I was born in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire in 1948: one of the post-war baby boom. After attending grammar school and studying to the sound of Bob Dylan I went to Nottingham University and studied Medieval and Modern History (Archaeology subsidiary). The subsidiary course led to one of my greatest academic achievements: involuntarily tipping the soil content of a wheelbarrow from the summit of a spoil heap on to an old lady hobbling past our dig. Well, I have actually done many different jobs while living in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Leamington, Glossop, the Scilly Isles, Puglia and Calabria. They include teaching English and History, managing a Day Care Centre, being a Director of a Trade Institute and teaching university students English. I even tried being a fisherman and a flower picker when I was on St. Agnes, Scilly. I have lived in Calabria since 1992 where I settled into a long-term job at the University of Calabria teaching English. No doubt my lovely Calabrian wife, Maria, stopped me being restless.
My two kids are grown up now, but I wrote books for them when they were little. Hamish Hamilton and then Thomas Nelson published 6 of these in England in the 1980s. I’m a granddad now and happily his parents named my grandson Dylan. I decided to take up writing again late in my career. You know when you are teaching and working as a translator you don’t really have time for writing.
I retired in January 2014 and began researching the period that has always fascinated me: Anglo-Saxon England. My research homed in on a Pope from Calabria, Pope Zachary and from there I chanced upon a letter from a certain Denehard and the idea for my first historical novel ‘The Purple Thread’ was born. Endeavour Media published it in the summer of 2017 along with my second, set 50 years or so earlier in Southern England with the title Wyrd of the Wolf. In November 2018 my third and fourth novels, a two-book series, were published: Saints and Sinners and Mixed Blessings.
A while back, after writing a sequel to Wyrd of the Wolf, entitled In the Name of the Mother, I took a decision to develop my writing in two directions. There would still be the content of my beloved Anglo-Saxon era but in parallel to my ‘pure’ historical novels like Perfecta Saxonia and Ulf’s Tale there would also be a line involving the element of involving the past with the present as in my ‘time travel novel’ Angenga and my current series in progress, beginning with a tale of the paranormal entitled Elfrid’s Hole (Jake Conley Book 1). Soon forthcoming in January 2020′ is the second Jake Conley book, Red Horse Vale and the third, Memory of a Falcon is contracted for future publication. Currently, I’m working on the fourth in the series, whilst lso revising another ‘pure history’ novel set in the tenth century about Earl Godwine.
For Adults: The Purple Thread (Endeavour Media, 2017)
Wyrd of the Wolf 2017 (Endeavour Media, 2017)
Saints and Sinners (Endeavour Media, November 2018)
Mixed Blessings (Endeavour Media, January 2019)
Perfecta Saxonia (Creativia, April 2019)
Ulf’s Tale (Creativia, May 2019)
Angenga (Creativia, May 2019)
In the Name of the Mother (Creativia, May 2019)
Elfrid’s Hole (Next Chapter, October 2019)
RD Horse Vale (Next Chapter, January 2020)
Children’s Books (All now out of print):
The Wild Man of the Four Winds, Hamish Hamilton1982
Fiddler’s Hill and other stories, Thomas Nelson1986
The Alchemist’s Tower, Thomas Nelson 1986
The Municipal Inventor of Barbaria, Thomas Nelson 1986
The Meggies, Thomas Nelson 1987
The Green Ox of Verbena, Thomas Nelson 1987