I am an historian, archaeologist and author whose work has seen me munching on spiders in the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea, trying not to get lost in Australia’s vast national parks and exploring the major Viking sites across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany - and of course the fjords of Norway. While working (daydreaming) at the National Museum of Australia, I found a little-remarked passage in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about an unlikely truce between the Vikings and the Britons of Dumnonia, the last great British kingdom of the Dark Ages. Nobody knows exactly why these sworn enemies decided to join forces, but I was determined to find the answer - or make one up!​ Thus was born the Wolves of Dumnonia saga. I am passionate about bringing the stories of everyday people in the Dark Ages to life. My post-graduate research on living history for the University of Canberra focused on the different ways we remember the Vikings and tell their stories and why even today they have such a grip on our collective imagination. I now live in the beautiful English Lake District, where the ghosts of the Norse settlers can be heard in the many Old Norse names that pepper the Lakeland landscape. I am currently completing the fifth instalment of the Wolves of Dumnonia series.