The Time of the Wolf, James Wilde
The Time of the Wolf, James Wilde
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The Time of the Wolf
A Novel of Medieval England

Author: James Wilde

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2013

Synopsis

A rousing historical novel that rescues one of England’s forgotten heroes from the mists of early medieval history and brings him to brutal and bloody life 1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can drown England in a tide of blood. The ravens of war are gathering. But as King Edward’s closest advisors scheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes of resisting the naked ambition of the Norman duke come to rest with just one man: Hereward. To some a ruthless warrior and master tactician, to others a devil in human form, Hereward is as adept in the art of warfare as the foes that gather to claim England’s throne. But in his country’s hour of greatest need, his enemies at court have made him outlaw. To stay alive — and a free man — he must carve a violent swathe from the frozen lands outside the capital. The tale of a man whose deeds will become the stuff of legend, this is also the story of two mismatched allies: Hereward, the dark angel of war; and Alric, a man of peace, a monk. One man will risk everything to save the land he loves, the other will strive to save his friend’s soul.

About James Wilde

James Wilde is the pseudonym of Mark Chadbourn. Raised in a world of books, Wilde studied economic history before traveling the world in search of adventure. Unable to forget a childhood encounter — in the pages of a comic book — with the great English warrior, Hereward, Wilde returned to the haunted fenlands of Eastern England, Hereward’s ancestral home, where he became convinced that this legendary hero should be the subject of a novel. Wilde now indulges his love of history at home in the heart of a Mercian forest in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens on February 04, 2022

Read this book in 2011, and its the 1st volume of the amazing "Hereward" series. This book starts off in the year AD 1062, and Hereward, a legendary but forgotten English hero of resistance, in action first during the last years of the reign of the heirless King Edward, but later on even more fiercel......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on June 07, 2013

Okay. I finished it, but this book did not blow me away. Here's the plot of the story: Two wrongly accused men, one moral and one amoral, develop a friendship as they attempt to clear their names during the period leading up to (and immediately following) the Norman Invasion. It took my 150 page to re......more

Goodreads review by Speesh on July 20, 2012

Superb. Nothing less. Hereward gripped me and held me at sword-point from page one. (That was my attempt at writing something they might want to use on a future Hereward book jacket). I can't remember being so impressed by a historical novel for a long, long time. It really is that good. Set in an inter......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 13, 2019

This is a good story told in a poorly constructed novel. I have so many problems with it and yet I read it through to the end, even though it took two weeks, so I’m giving it three stars. My first issue is Hereward himself. It’s clear the author adores him as a historical figure, but that’s a lot of......more

Goodreads review by S.J. on May 30, 2015

'Drink,' he said. 'Let the juices of the toadstool fill you with the passion of our ancestors.' He passed the vessel of steaming urine to Ivar... So much for budget caterers... The above quote wasn't from the mouth of Hereward, but one of the many unsavoury adversaries he encounters throughout the boo......more

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