{"product_id":"757-book-mj-porter-9781806585885","title":"757","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is Mercia. The year is 757. \u003cbr\u003e A king will fall. A king will rise. \u003cbr\u003e But first, civil war will rage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Æthelbald's forty-year vice-like rule over Mercia has been rigid. But he lacks a legitimate heir despite his insatiable bedchamber antics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffa must stand hostage to his family’s good behaviour, when his father missteps in removing his mother from Æthelbald’s bed. Shockingly, his younger sister now replaces her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the king isn’t finished with his denigration of Offa’s noble House. When his parents are traitorously killed, Offa’s resentment grows, compounded by the ridicule heaped on him by King Æthelbald’s oathsworn warriors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the king’s health deteriorating, the matter of the succession becomes paramount. There are plenty who share a claim to the kingship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscord threatens to fracture the mighty realm, and those with sword and shield, seax and spear are prepared to risk it all to be the future king of Mercia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for M J Porter:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Immediate and personal. MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' - \u003cem\u003eMatthew Harffy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Refreshing… I was reluctant to put the book down’ - \u003cem\u003eHistorical Novel Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53739062952209,"sku":"NLS9781806585885","price":19.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54280579154193,"sku":"NIN9781806585885","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781806585885.jpg?v=1783300195","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/757-book-mj-porter-9781806585885","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}