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David N Humphrey

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in Durham, UK, The United Kingdom

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http://www.knightofcoins.com

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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

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Hello! I write adventures featuring a medieval mercenary called Valguard and self publish them to as many outlets as I can. Once described as ‘medieval violence with a touch of magic’ and in many ways feel like a kind of ‘medieval Western’ (or Northern as its cold, not sunny). In the Venn diagram of Historical Fiction and Fantasy, my stories sit in the area where the two genres overlap -- I like to think of it as ‘Swordpunk’. I am only interested in writing more books in the Valguard series, please let me know what you think. Available on Amazon, Smashwords, Apple, B&N, some stuff exclusive to Tablo website and printed books on Blurb, search for ‘Valguard’.
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Average rating: 4.8 · 20 ratings · 17 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Valguard: Knight of Coins (Valguard, #1) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vampire Night it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valguard: Sanctuary it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teddy Bear Pirate and Captain Kid's Treasure (#1) by Polly Humphrey, David N Humphrey (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valguard: Broken Tower it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valguard: Ten of Swords 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Valguard: The Chariot 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Winterfell v Helms Deep

There is a lot of mumbling on social media as to which is better; The Battle of Winterfell in Game of Thrones episode The Long Night (S8 E3) or Helm's Deep in Peter Jackson's The Two Towers. Let's compare them.

Obviously, the GoT episode is fresher in my mind and to be fair, I'm still reeling from it. Whilst the early seasons of HBO's series had budgets that meant much of the action took place off Read more of this blog post »

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Mission in Malmö (Inspector Anita Sundström, #9)

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“The squire helped him into the saddle & he thanked him for his help.
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