Books by Brian Bates

Sent on a mission deep into the forests of pagan Anglo-Saxon England, Wat Brand, a Christian scribe, suddenly finds his vision of the world turned upside down. The familiar English countryside is not what it seems; threatening spirits, birds of omen and plants of power lurk in this landscape of unseen terrors and mysterious forces.

An engaging popular history of the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.