Rikke Louise Andersson
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The Wake is a historical novel set in the deep mythic past. It is hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten, decade-long war of underground resistance which spread across England in the decade after 1066.
The Wake is a 2014 debut novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an imaginary language, a hybrid of Old English and Modern English, it tells of Buccmaster of Holland, an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed.
Apr 2, 2014 · For The Wake, a novel set in 11th-century Lincolnshire during and after the Norman invasion, Paul Kingsnorth has adopted another solution: he writes in what he calls “a shadow tongue”, a ...
Aug 27, 2015 · Rich Preston/NPR. Paul Kingsnorth's new novel, The Wake — a grim tale of medieval conquest and revenge — became a hit against all odds in the U.K. last year, and it's about to be released in the...
Sep 1, 2015 · In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders.
May 11, 2015 · Sun 10 May 2015 09.00 EDT. P ublished through the crowd-funding publisher Unbound, Paul Kingsnorth’s extraordinary novel set in 11th-century England has been a huge success – longlisted for the Man...
The Wake are a British post-punk and later indie pop band, founded in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard “Caesar” McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen (drums) and Joe Donnelly (bass), the...
