History
The human detail behind periods too easily reduced to dates.
Drew Cullingham · Author
Historical fictionat the edge of legend.
Albion is an epic, bloody novel of post-Roman Britain, where ambition, invasion and prophecy collide, and the first outline of Arthur begins to emerge.
Book oneAlbionPublished 2023
“For a nation to be born, a hero must come of age.”
AlbionThe novel
Britannia, 447 AD.
Rome has gone. The island is splintering. Every border is under threat.
Vitalinus, heir to Cornovia, intends to unite Britannia’s tribes at any cost. In the north, a young survivor named Emrys is drawn into the brutal politics of a country fighting for its future. Between them lies the making of a legend.
- Genre
- Historical fiction
- Setting
- Post-Roman Britain
- Available
- Hardback · Paperback · Kindle
The writing
The darkness after Rome.
Drew’s fiction inhabits the dangerous space between recorded history and inherited myth. It asks what happens when an old order disappears, power is up for grabs, and the people who survive begin to shape the stories that will outlive them.
About Drew and the workPower
How nations fracture, alliances shift and ambition hardens.
Legend
The uncertain moment when a life becomes a story.
About the author
Drew Cullingham
Drew Cullingham writes ambitious historical fiction about identity, violence and the stories on which countries are built. Albion is his first novel.
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