You wait a year and a half for a book from me, and then two come along in a couple of months! After The Man Who Stopped the Sultan here’s my new book, Bede: The Man Who Invented England (spot a title theme there?)

Yes, it’s about the Venerable Bede, the man who, alongside inventing England, popularised the calendar we all use today, told us pretty well all we know about history after the Romans left Britain, made the life of scholarship a viable life path and he did all this while living in Jarrow!

Bijan Omrani, author of the wonderful, God is an Englishman, was kind enough to read my book before publication and he said it’s ‘a wonderfully learned and highly readable introduction to a man who, more than any other, can claim to be the inventor of Englishness’. So don’t just take my word for it – go out and buy Bede: The Man Who Invented England!