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‘Are you English?’ is never a neutral question. In the 11^th century a ‘Presentment of Englishry’ was the offering of proof that a dead man was English, and therefore unimportant. Sometime after 1155 Laȝamon, a priest living in the small settlement of Arely Regis by the River Severn, set out to ‘tell the noble deeds of the English, who they were, and where they came from’.

Taking his life and poem as their starting point, the stories in this collection move outward from the legendary arrival of the Trojans in Britain, finding echoes in stories from Angevin England and Ireland, the prehistoric tin trade and the arrival of the first English as raiders and settlers in a fading Roman Britain.

115 pages. Published by Shearsman UK. Copies from this website are signed by the author. Cost includes standard postage.