Name Giles Kristian | Role Novelist | |
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Books Raven: Blood Eye, Golden Lion, Blood Eye, Sons of Thunder, Raven 2: Sons of Thunder | ||
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Giles Kristian (born 1975) is a bestselling novelist, known for his action adventure novels in the historical fiction genre. He is best known for his Raven series, about a young man’s coming of age amongst a band of Viking warriors. His first novel, the bestselling Raven: Blood Eye, was published to great acclaim (including an accolade from Bernard Cornwell). Two further novels complete the Raven Saga, Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves, and to date the books have been published in eight languages. He has written two books set during the English Civil War 'The Bleeding Land' and 'Brothers Fury' published by Transworld Publishers. In 2015 he co wrote 'Golden Lion' with Wilbur Smith, part of Smith's best selling Courtney series. He is currently writing the second book in the Raven prequel series, following the exploits of Sigurd 'The Lucky', the first being the 2014 release "God of Vengeance".
Contents
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- Giles kristian the bleeding land book video trailer
- Background
- Raven saga
- Rise of Sigurd saga
- Civil War series
- Other works
- References
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Background
Giles Kristian was born in Leicestershire to a Norwegian mother and an English father. During the 90s he was selected from 8000 hopefuls to become lead singer of the pop group Upside Down, achieving three top twenty hit records with the boyband and performing at such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, N.E.C. and Wembley Arena. As a singer songwriter he signed to the record label The M-Company and toured for two years in Europe, releasing the record I Just Wanna Know in 2001. He has worked as a model, appearing in press campaigns and TV commercials. He has been an advertising copywriter and lived for nearly three years in New York where he wrote copy for movie marketing company Empire Design.