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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Peter C. Whitaker For Rapture of Ravens follows on from The War Wolf and is the second in a trilogy I call The Sorrow Song. It relates the events of 1066 in Saxons England and I was moved to write it when I discovered facts about the period that I did not know, such as the Battle of Fulford Gate, often referred to as the forgotten battle of 1066. It was a very important event but one that many know nothing about so it seemed to make a good starting point. For Rapture of Ravens recounts the second battle at Stamford Bridge, a military encounter that had very serious ramifications for the Saxons. The Norman Conquest is often presented as a de facto piece of history but when you examine it in a progressive timeline you discover just how much a role luck had, both good and bad, and that the Saxons were actually quite a vibrant, modern, and capable people instead of the illiterate peasants waiting for civilisation to invade their England of the 'Dark Ages' as I was told at shool.

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