Family history (he is half Norwegian) and a passion for the fiction of Bernard Cornwell inspired GILES KRISTIAN to write. Set in the Viking world, his bestselling trilogies ¿Raven¿ and ¿The Rise of Sigurd¿ have been acclaimed by his peers, reviewers and readers alike. The novels The Bleeding Land and Brothers¿ Fury tell the story of a family torn apart by the English Civil War and he co-wrote Wilbur Smith¿s No.1 bestseller, Golden Lion. In his new novel, Lancelot , Giles plunges into the rich and swirling waters of our greatest island 'history': the Arthurian legend. Giles Kristian lives in Leicestershire.