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|title=Saxon: The Book of Dreams (Saxon 1)

|author=Tim Severin

|reviewer=Conor Murphy

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=384

|publisher=Macmillan

|date=August 2012

|isbn=0230764428

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Sigwulf is the Saxon prince of a small kingdom - that is, until the ruthless King Offa of Mercia slaughters his family. He is saved from execution for a single purpose - to be shipped off to the court of King Carolus of the Franks. Sigwulf quickly befriends the Kings nephew, Count Hroundland, a powerful and very ambitious man. However, just as quickly Sigwulf survives an attempt on his life, he also finds he has been thrown into a world of deceit and vain ambitions. Only Osric, Sigwulf's crippled personal slave, can be trusted.

You might also enjoy [[The Half-Slave by Trevor Bloom]], in which a raiding Saxon tribe meets its match in the form of a division of the Franks, who have suborned the Roman authorities and are establishing their control throughout the region.

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