And William Came
Christopher Bourner
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 157,230
Warnings: Graphic violence, swearing
A king is dying – childless – and his plans for the succession unknown. Two brothers, rivals for the king’s favour, once close, now estranged. Across the seas, resentful pretenders eye the throne for themselves and scheme to recover a lost inheritance. All will be resolved on a Sussex hillside in the year King Edward died… and William Came. Please note: this book is over 120,000 words, so you will have three weeks to read it. The bonus will be £15.
It is autumn 1065 and King Edward is out hunting near Salisbury with his earls, Harold of Wessex and Tostig of Northumbria, where he receives news of rebellion at York. Although, the city is in Tostig’s earldom the king delegates his brother Earl Harold to resolve the situation. While riding to meet the rebels an idea comes to Harold of how to appease both the rebels and Earl Tostig.
Within months King Edward is dead. Harold implements his idea and sets off a sequence of events that would eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
Christopher Bourner is a grammar school educated man in his autumn years, with a keen interest in English history particularly Anglo-Saxon/Norman history. For almost 20 years he was employed as a cartographer/graphics technician.
Thereafter, he designed websites for SMEs and a children’s charity, was an ESOL/TEFL teacher before becoming a director in a shipping brokerage company. An avid reader, occasional bass player and artist with a lifelong interest in music, he can often be found perusing art galleries and museums and going to gigs. He lives on the border of South-East London/North-West Kent with his wife and adult children.
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