“A complex tapestry woven with great skill.”
BOOKS QUARTERLY
DAVID GEMMELL
“Manda Scott’s Boudica novels are breathtakingly good.The tragic warrior queen, Boudica, is brilliantly realised. Her battles against Rome are both heart rending and magnificent”
THE INDEPENDENT
“These books area an immense accomplishment, a quartet that gives us back our own history. They will be read and re-read many times ”
KATE MOSSE
“Great imagination … fast moving action and spine-tingling battles. Wonderful ”
THE TIMES
“I have just finished Manda Scott’s Boudica quartet. I was totally sucked into her world… It is both reassuring and tragic to think that we’re still not learning from our mistakes.”
Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear
Now is their chance: the Roman governor has marched his legions west, leaving his capital and a vital port undefended.There is no going back.
But to crush her enemies for all time, the Boudica must do more than lead her army in the greatest rebellion Britain has ever known. She must find healing for herself, for the land – and for Graine, her eight-year-old daughter.
Colchester is burning. London has been destroyed. Amidst fire and bloody revolution, the Boudica and those around her must fight to keep what matters most — now and for all time.
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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...
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