Flodden

On Friday 9th September 1513, a battle is fought on the wet, windswept slopes of a Northumbrian hill. The armies of Scotland and England have clashed on countless occasions before, but never on such a savage and merciless scale. Flodden tells the story of this barbaric conflict and of the fates of two Scottish men whose destinies collide on the blood-drenched killing ground: James IV, King of Scotland, and Fletcher, a young arrow maker from Selkirk. As both men become immersed in a horrific and inescapable cauldron of violence, they desperately fight to remain alive and keep their souls unsullied. But in this most brutal of fights to the death, only their God will know who will live and who will die."Flodden is a fantastic mixture of Scottish history and thoughtfully-constructed fiction which creates an inescapably tense and immersive atmosphere from the get-go. Mill's ability to masterfully weave his gripping fictitious narrative with historical events is truly remarkable. In this brutal and gripping depiction of war, it is easy to see why this author's works have appeared in (and topped) a number of Amazon Top-100 charts." SCOTTISH FIELD, four star review.