Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors
with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers
can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including
Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death
by booby-trapped statues.
History with the nasty bits left in!
2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary.
Terry Deary was born in Sunderland in 1946 and currently lives in County Durham. Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher. He spends his time writing and directing for his television production company, managing his website, terry-deary.com, and touring his Horrible Histories exhibition. Terry is the author of 116 books in the UK and over 250 more worldwide, mainly for children and teenagers, including the popular non-fiction series Horrible Histories. Horrible Histories were launched in 1993 and are now sold in 28 languages from Russia to Brazil, Scandinavia to China.
Martin Brown was born in Australia but currently lives in Dorset. In 1993, he illustrated the first of the Horrible Histories, and has now contributed to more than 60 titles in the series.
