Swordland

Name: Swordland
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Edward Ruadh Butler
ISBN: 9781974913794

Author: Edward Ruadh Butler

Series: Invader Series

Narrator: Richard Mitchley

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 03/14/2017

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Robert FitzStephen is a warrior down on his luck. Arrogant, cold, but a brilliant soldier, FitzStephen commands a castle despite his checkered lineage. When a Welsh rebellion brings defeat and a crippling siege, FitzStephen's highborn comrades scorn him, betraying him to the enemy. A hostage of his cousin, Prince Rhys, FitzStephen is disgraced and seemingly doomed to a life of obscurity and shame. Then King Diarmait arrives, the ambitious overlord of an Irish kingdom. Forced to flee by the High King of Ireland, he seeks to reclaim his lands by any means possible, including inviting the Normans. With nothing left to lose, FitzStephen agrees to lead the Irishman's armies and drive Diarmait's enemies from his kingdom. His price? Acceptance...or perhaps a kingdom of his own?

About Edward Ruadh Butler

Born in Northern Ireland, Edward Ruadh Butler studied Biomedical Sciences in Ireland and business in the US before working in newsrooms, bars, and laboratories, as a security guard, musician, and a lifeguard. Butler began by writing about Ireland in the 12th century during his lunch hour, and a year later he had completed the first draft of his debut novel, Swordland. He is currently writing a sequel to Swordland set in 1170.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens

This astounding debut novel, by for me a new and upcoming author, has been a very pleasurable experience. At the beginning of the book you'll find a well defined Glossary and some interesting Notes concerning this tale, which is for a part set in Wales, but for the most important part of course in Ir......more

Goodreads review by Speesh

Swordland comes thundering off the page like, appropriately enough, a Norman warhorse charging at the enemy; cutting a swathe of fresh, energetic and adventurous Historical Fiction storytelling. For what I think is Edward Ruadh Butler's first novel, Swordland weaves a confident path through what, to......more

Goodreads review by Jerry Mercer

Grand Novel This book has all the components of an interesting and well done novel. Good descriptions and plenty of action and intrigue abound. The author overused the Irish and Welsh names however burdening the reader with unpronouncable words that slow down the plot. hich bogs down the reader's prog......more

Goodreads review by Paul

A gripping tale featuring Norman, Welsh, Irish, Ostmen and Flemish combatants and their duplicitous maneuvers to stake a claim or a kingdom in Ireland. The main protagonist is Robert FitzStephen, a Norman warrior who falls upon hard times but is offered the chance to regain his honor leading the ar......more