Tadceaster - Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England.
Tateshale - Tanshelf, now part of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.
York - North Yorkshire, England.
About the Author
I am writer of historical fiction, working primarily in the early Middle Ages. I have always had a love of history which led to an early career in conservation work. Using the knowledge and expertise gained we later moved as a family through a succession of dilapidated houses which I single-handedly renovated. These ranged from a Victorian townhouse to a Fourteenth Century hall, and I added childcare to my knowledge of medieval oak frame repair, wattle and daub and lime plastering. I have crewed the replica of Captain Cook’s ship, Endeavour, sleeping in a hammock and sweating in the sails and travelled the world, visiting such historic sites as the Little Big Horn, Leif Eriksson’s Icelandic birthplace and the bullet scarred walls of Berlin’s Reichstag.
Now I write, only a stone’s throw from the Anglian ship burial site at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia, England. The Raven and the Cross is my eleventh novel, following on from the success of the bestselling first book in the series, Bloodaxe.
Also by C. R. MAY
BLOODAXE
SORROW HILL
WRÆCCA
MONSTERS
FIRE AND STEEL
GODS OF WAR
THE SCATHING
TERROR GALLICUS
NEMESIS