“A masterpiece in historical fiction”
NEW YORK TIMES
Dreaming the Eagle
STEPEHEN PRESSFIELD
“A stunning feat of the imagination and an absolute must-read for lovers of historical fiction. Utterly convincing and compelling.”
VAL MCDERMID
“A staggeringly imaginative invocation of Britain’s secret history…close enough to our reality for it both to warm and break our hearts. Breathtakingly good. ”
NEW YORK TIMES
“Scott’s richly detailed novel brilliantly captures the driven, passionate soul of the Celts. The lyric prose captivates, the characters ensare. The legendary queen Boudica breathes, lives and absolutely rivets.”
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
“Every so often a book comes along that totally remoulds a historical figure for our own times…”
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle
Gloriously imagined, Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages, recounting the journey to adulthood of Breaca, who at twelve kills her first warrior, and her sensitive, skilful half-brother Ban, who carries with him a vision of the future that haunts his waking hours.
Translated into over a dozen languages, this international Best-seller tells the extraordinary, resounding story of Britain’s ‘warrior queen’, the woman who remains one of the great female icons – to read it is to discover our history, to learn about ourselves and our heritage.
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DRUIDS, DRUGS & THE REAL BRITANNIA
We've been watching (and enjoying) Britannia. Here's my take on the druids: who were they, what did they do, and whether they were they anything like the much-scarred head druid Veren and Divis, the outcast with the demon problem...
THE CELTS, WOMEN & SEX
"We consort openly with the best of men. You allow yourselves to be debauched in secret by the vilest." - so said the consort of the Gaulish king to Julia Augustus, wife of the Emperor to the Roman Empress who cast aspersions on her morals. Celtic women were far more empowered than their Roman counterparts - and we've barely got back to what our ancestors took as their right.
LUCID DREAMING: ANCIENT SKILL OR MODERN FAD?
Everyone dreams: not everyone dreams lucidly, but it's there for those who want to step into a world (many worlds) where anything is possible. Here is the gateway to all possible futures, and the answers, if we persist, to all possible questions.
THE OLD GODS & THE NEW
In Britannia, Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) knows that to defeat the tribes of Britannia, you need to kill their gods. But who were the old gods of our tribal past? Are they still here? And if so, how best can we re-connect with them, to rediscover our heritage and our sense of connectedness to the earth.
SHAMANIC DREAMING IN ANCIENT BRITAIN: AN INTERVIEW WITH MANDA SCOTT
Thanks to Robert Moss, one of the world's great dreamers and teachers-of-dreaming, for allowing me to post this interview about shamanic dreaming and the Boudica series. It was first published on his blog.
BOUDICA, BOUDICCA, BOADICEA – WHAT’S IN A NAME?
If you’re generation X or older, you’ll have been taught – if you were taught anything at all about our ancient past – that Queen Boadicea of the Iceni gained the throne of her tribe when her husband died, and led her armies in a fatally flawed rebellion against the might – and greater good – of Rome...
CONTACT MANDA
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