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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Whistler, Charles (Fiction)\
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	1_Havelok the Dane (1899) - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln\
	2_A Prince of Cornwall (1904) - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex\
	3_A King's Comrade (1904) - A Story of Old Hereford\
	4_Wulfric the Weapon Thane - A Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia\
	5_A Thane of Wessex - Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset\
	6_King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet\
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The order of above titles is mine, I've tried to put Whistler's novels into a chronological order which I believe will improve the reading experience, as you'll see the nations in England mingle and mix and kingdoms founded and founder... Read 'em all - TO-DAY!\
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	"Havelok" plays around 580 to 600 AD in Denmark and England, one or two generations after mythical King Arthur (and his people's struggle with the Saxons) and shows early relations between the Danes and Saxons (now well-established in England with their own kingdoms) and the already christianized Welsh in England. Also introduces dislike between Danes/Jutes (cousins of the Saxons, BTW) and the Norse. Based one of the (until the Elizabethan Age) most popular Medieval sagas of the British Isles that has a lot of traits of the classic nordic sagas.\
	"Prince of Cornwall" takes place about a hundred years or four generations later -- ca. 690-710 AD, and deals much with the relations between Welsh and Saxons, feat. some resident Danes in the country.\
	"King's Comrade" is again three generations later, ca. 790 AD. Mainly focused on inter-Saxon conflict (kings Ethelbert and Offa), and problems with the Welsh (who still would like to get their lost estates back...). Introduces Norse campaigns on the Frankish coast (founding the Norse state of Normandy).\
	"Wulfric" shows how the Danes invade the English realm and found kingdoms, turning from fun-loving plunderers to competitive conquerors.\
	"Thane of Wessex" takes place shortly before King Alfred's rule. The hero is robbed of land and title through bitter intrigues, and banned from the realm. But as he tries to leave the kingdom, he's followed by pursuers who are after his live. Soon Whistler adds one or two tasty conflicts of interest, and we've got a man in a mess -- how to do the right thing if you are right-less and without honor in the eyes of your former peers?\
	"King Alfred's Viking" tells more of the Battles between the English (united at last) and the Danes, and is the story of the first navy of England, built by Alfred with a little help from Norse friends.\
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-- DJV.}