The Lion Rampant (The Kingdom Series)
By (Author) Robert Low
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
4th September 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
464
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 28mm
350g
The third book in Robert Lows stunning trilogy about the making of Scotland.
It is 1314. Robert the Bruce has reigned for eight hard years, driving out his English enemies with fire and sword. Lives have been shredded by war wives, daughters and lovers slain or imprisoned. His men have lost almost everything.
But three great fortresses in the Kingdom remain under English rule: Roxburgh, Stirling and Edinburgh. Bruce must capture each stronghold after another to come face-to-face with Edward II, the English King humiliated by defeat and determined to put down his Scottish enemy once and for all. And the last great battle for the Scottish throne will be decided on a bloody field called Bannockburn.
Praise for THE LION RAMPANT:
The Lion Rampant is pure Romance, exhilarating, appalling, compelling; great stuff. It is hard to think that anyone can do violent action better than Low vivid, imaginative and blood-curdling THE SCOTSMAN
Praise for the KINGDOM series:
Intensely exciting, enjoyable and satisfying: a novel of honour, duty, chivalry, desperation, self-interest and fear Harry Sidebottom
A real master of historical fiction Ben Kane
Robert Low is on my to read list from now on Anthony Riches, author of The Empire Series
Praise for the OATHSWORN series:
'A company of warriors, desperate battles, an enthralling read' Bernard Cornwell
Filled with the kind of muscular, fast-moving prose that gives the story real depth and distinction SUNDAY TIMES
In the Oathsworn series he has created a completely convincing and utterly compelling modern Viking Saga. The history, myth and fiction are folded seamlessly together: wonderful, unbeatable stuff Harry Sidebottom
Robert Low has been a journalist and writer since the age of 17. At 19, he was in Vietnam covering the war. Since then, he has earned his living as a writer safely in Scotland, with occasional lapses of judgement taking him to Sarajevo, Romania and Kosovo until common-sense and the concerns of his wife and daughter prevailed. To satisfy his craving for action and couple it to an obsession with ancient warfare, he took up riding, horse archery and, latterly, having moved to an area rich in Viking tradition, took up re-enactment, joining The Vikings. He now spends summers fighting furiously in helmet and mail in shieldwalls all over Britain and winters training hard.