Nick Barlow reviewed King in the North by Max Adams
Review of 'King in the North' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Interesting book, but I suspect the title is more the publisher's than the author's. It is about Oswald, but there's more on his predecessors and descendants, and the nature of Kings and state-building in the seventh century. Lots of detail and discussion of how much we can know from limited and unreliable sources, but an interesting story about how England was formed out of post-Roman Britain.