Battle, intrigue and Druidism followed to their brutal conclusions in the dark pre-Christian world of the Celts... Henry Treece explores a period in British history when magic and murder were matter-of-fact and the 'civilising' influence of Rome had yet to make headway against the dark and powerful undertow of the Celtic spirit. Something of a cult classic.

A dark and pessimistic fantasy based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. There is something rotten in Sixth Century Jutland, where prince Amleth cannot make up his mind how to deal with the murderers of his father. This terrific novel guest-stars a rough and ready Arthur of Britain, a brutal and sneering warlord, ineffective against the Saxon invaders, as well as a shrewd but untrustworthy Beowulf, both a far cry from their heroic stereotypes. A superb novel in every way--a cynical, darkly comic and ...

The story follows the adventures of Geoffrey and Alys de Villacours, who in 1212 set out on a great crusade of children, bent on making their way to the Holy Land to free Jerusalem. The marching clolumn of children got as far as Marseilles on their own, but were then tricked onto the ships of unscupulous traders who sold them into slavery. Geoffrey and Alys were separated on that voyage, but both became the slaves of the Governor of Egypt. The Children's Crusade really happened, and this i...

The epic romance and adventure of King Arthur. "This is the story of 'King' Arthur, as I think it happened," Henry Treece wrote about his novel. The Great Captains is about no romantic ghost but a man of the wild, forbidding world of ancient Britain.

Harald, a young early Viking, joins the great warrior Thorkell Fairhar for an adventure on board ship. But will he and the crew meet disaster and death or make it back home from the coasts of Scotland and Ireland?

The Last of the Vikings tells the life and adventures of Harald Hardrada, last great Viking and King of Norway, who met his death in 1066 when fighting at Stamford Bridge against King Harold Godwinson of England.

Anxious for adventure and still longing for the sea, Harald, the young Viking hero of VIKING'S DAWN, is readily persuaded to join Prince Arkil of Denmark in a quest lor the treasure guarded by the Irish giant, Grummoch. Thus begins a strange and exciting series of adventures which take Harald and his shipmates from their native fjords to Ireland, Moorish Spain, and across the Mediterranean to the golden domes of Constantinople (Miklagard), and after many hardships overland through Central ...

The idea of Harald Sigurdson’s last voyage came to Henry Treece when a young friend of his told him of the finding of the prow of a Viking longship in a lake in North America. He set out to devise a story round the kind of man who could make this incredible voyage from Scandinavia to the then unknown continent. This is the story of how Harald and his friend Giant Grummoch set out in pursuit of marauding Vikings who have raided their homesteads, but instead of catching Haakon Redeye and his...

A young boy at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in the reign of Claudius leads a good life, since his father is a leader in service to Caratacus. But when his father goes missing in action, everything changes...

This roaring, virile novel is a fiery recreation of the legend of Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. Jason's turbulent marriage to Medea and his tangled affairs with many women form the framework of this spectacular historical which was written in the grand tradition by one of the most brilliant adventure novelists. Crowded with action, battle scenes, treachery, intrigue and raging passions, Jason makes for an unforgettable reading experience - a vivid excursion into a bold and sa...

The son of a Roman Tribune, raised in Roman Britain, familiar with Celtic customs, and friendly to their people, chooses to follow his father as a warrior until barbarism and battle change his mind.

"BLATANT INJUSTICE" became the decision of the officials and townsfolk, in the aftermath of a very decent lady's murder, just a few days before Christmas of 1964. Olive Lewis was preparing her husband's lunch when she was shot in the head. As officials sat in her living room, viewing her dead body and her grand-babies' Christmas outfits on her sewing machine, they made a decision to violate the laws of the land, and lead the townsfolk into a Silence Mode, in a deliberate Cover-up. But, why...