Lost realms

beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just

brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past.

This is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.

In Lost Realms Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain's ancient kingdoms: lands that hover in the twilight

between history and fable, whose stories hum with gods and miracles, with giants and battles and ruin. Why did some realms - like Wessex,

Northumbria and Gwynedd - prosper while others fell? And how did their communities adapt to the catastrophic changes of their age? Drawing on

Britain ' s ancient landscape and bringing together new archaeological revelations with the few precious fragments of surviving written sources,

Williams spectacularly rebuilds a lost past.