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Edoardo Albert

Edoardo Albert

21st July 2015 by Edoardo Albert

Edoardo Albert is a Sinhala/Italo/Tamil writer specialising in Anglo-Saxon and Islamic history. He suspects there isn’t another. (The surname? From the Sri Lankan half of the family, via an attempt to ingratiate ourselves with the colonial masters in the Victorian era.)

Reading his writing once reduced a friend to helpless, rolling-on-the-floor, holding-his-stomach laughter. Unfortunately, the friend was reading the draft of Edoardo’s proposed lonely-hearts ad. He might have given up writing there and then, if not for no less a writer than Bernard Cornwell lavishing praise (‘a splendid novel’) on his first book.

Edoardo’s interest in the Kingdom of Northumbria was provoked by his brother-in-law’s excavations in and around Bamburgh Castle. A confirmed Londoner, he’d seldom been north of Watford before. Now he is happy to confirm that the world does not, in fact, end somewhere around Junction 10 of the M1.

His latest book, Warrior: a life of war in Anglo-Saxon Britain, was published by Granta in October 2019.

Published works:

Conrad Monk and the Great Heathen Army

Conrad Monk and the Great Heathen Army

London: A Spiritual History

London: A Spiritual History

Oswald: Return of the King

Oswald: Return of the King

Oswiu: King of Kings

Oswiu: King of Kings

Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain

Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain

Edwin: High King of Britain

Edwin: High King of Britain

Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom

Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom

In Search of Alfred the Great

In Search of Alfred the Great

Imam al-Ghazali: A Concise Life

Imam al-Ghazali: A Concise Life

Ibn Sina: A Concise Life

Ibn Sina: A Concise Life

Ibn Battuta: The journey of a medieval Muslim

Ibn Battuta: The journey of a medieval Muslim

Professor Tolkien of Oxford

Professor Tolkien of Oxford

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Writes about:

  • Dark Ages
  • Early Medieval

Is similar to:

  • Fil Reid
  • Justin Hill
  • Nicola Griffith
  • Robert Low
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • James Aitcheson

Is located in:

  • London and South-East

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