JP Buxton

"Heartless Dark picks up the story with young Tog (or Artognu) now the High King and the Pictish Jenna his Queen. Nothing, however, is what you'd expect, and the two of them are already having misunderstandings even before Jenna is kidnapped by a remorseless band of child soldiers known as Little Swords .... it takes off like a rocket after the kidnap and never lets up.
... picture of a Britain as wild and strange as anything in Conrad's Heart of Darkness ..."

Amanda Craig, The Times

"Best new version of King Arthur since The Sword in the Stone"

Amanda Craig, The Times

"Stirring account ... its sequel should be well worth waiting for"

Nicholas Tucker, Independent on Sunday

"I was gripped right through and am now missing the book and the world it so deftly conjures"

Cornflower Books

"Fiercely realistic and gritty"

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