# Conqueror

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- Authors: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-07-12

## Description

It begins with the death of the last Roman and ends with the crowning of a king, the birth of a new order. As the centuries between these two events pass, as Britain emerges from the ruins of Roman rule to become a vibrant, rich power in its own right, as invasions ebb and flow and Kings rule and die, a single thread is spun and stretched. A prophecy found in the shadow of Hadrian's crumbling wall, a prophecy preserved by the monks at Lindisfarne. A prophecy remembered, a prophecy handed down. A prophecy that speaks of the cross, of dragons from the north. Of a new world and of a new empire. A prophecy fulfilled in one remarkable year: 1066. CONQUEROR is a fast moving historical thriller that casts a bright light onto a shadowy period of British history and brings it to vibrant life. Steeped in blood and violence this was also a time of artistic endeavour, a time of nation building and law-giving. And it is a time of chance, where history can be shaped by the Weaver ...

## Editions

### Conqueror

- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7509-876-3
- Published: 2010-06-03
- Language: en_GB

### Conqueror

- Publisher: ace
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-11-0100-688-7
- Published: 2007-08-07
- Language: en_US

### Conqueror

- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7508-165-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-07-12
- Language: en_GB