November 2020 Issue Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Norse Code The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings By Neil Price Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World By Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir LR
April 2018 Issue Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Sailing on Seas of Blood Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings By Tom Shippey
September 2017 Issue Philip Parker Norse to Be Reckoned With Viking Britain: An Exploration By Thomas Williams LR
October 2016 Issue Philip Parker Norse Code Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas By Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough LR
February 2003 Issue Giles MacDonogh A Personal Crusade The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem By Victoria Clark LR
March 2014 Issue Martin Arnold Coming to America The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World By Philip Parker LR
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