Redrawing the battleground

Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Michael Livingston OspreY, 224 pages, £20

I’m a fan of Bernard Cornwell. There, I admit it. I really enjoyed The sweep of 70 years of this electric time in English history was a feat of imagination, told with verve and relish. Of course most of his story didn’t actually happen, but you don’t have to believe it. It’s fiction. Cornwell composed the introduction graphics.