The War Wolf recounts the opening battle of 1066 as King Hardrada of Norway out manoeuvres King Harold of England by landing the largest Viking army ever to set foot in the north of the kingdom. His objective is to capture York, the capital of Northumbria, and in this he is aided by Tostig Godwinson, the traitorous brother of the King of England. Unaware of the coming danger Coenred the Huscarl, an elite warrior of the Saxon army, considers retiring to his estate. His relationship with his young lords, Edwin and Morcar, has become strained and although in the prime of life he tires of...

1930's Britain the Ministry of Social Biology (MoSB) is responsible for improving the health of the nation along eugenic principles. Grace and Tom are sent to the MoSB's Spring Bank facility, their crime being that they are born disabled. In this dystopian alternate history they discover that they now count for nothing. As Brinley Valentine Husher hosts an International Eugenics Congress on board the airship R102 a battle rages in the English countryside as the secretive Verdure seek to stamp the country with a eugenic brand, opposed by the equally shadowy Indivisibles. Together Grace and Tom...