The Other Side of the Whale Road

K. A. Hayton

How dark were the Dark Ages? Joss is about to find out...

SHORTLISTED: New Angle Prize

SHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards

‘The Vikings are better armed than we are. They have long, heavy axes that can take a man’s head from his shoulder. I know this because I see it happen.’

When his mum burns down their house on the Whitehorse estate, sixteen-year-old Joss is sent to live in a sleepy Suffolk village.

The place is steeped in history, as Joss learns when a bike accident pitches him back more than 1,000 years to an Anglo-Saxon village. That history also tells him his new friends are in mortal peril from bloodthirsty invaders. Can he warn their ruler, King Edmund, in time?

And will he ever get home?

‘Brings history to life in a delightfully engaging – and sometimes terrifying – way. I raced through this book. A great YA read’ Liz Trenow

‘Young adult fiction at its best, with a pacey, compelling plot and a convincing contemporary teenage protagonist finding himself at war in Saxon Suffolk’ New Angle Prize judges

Paperback: 240pp

Published: Lightning (September 2021)

ISBN: 9781785632815