Birlinn have bought World English rights in Desmond Seward’s biography of Olav Haraldsson (995-1030), sometimes called the viking saint or ‘Norges evige Konge’ (Norway’s eternal King).
Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Ampleforth and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books including The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders, The Hundred Years War, The Wars of the Roses, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry V as Warlord, Josephus, Masada ...More about Desmond Seward