Book launch - The Thegn's Daughter - L.J. Morton
Sat 19 Sept
|Electric Beacon Books
We are proud to be launching L.J. Morton's debut novel "The Thegn's Daughter" at the lovely Electric Beacon Books.
Time & Location
19 Sept 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
Electric Beacon Books, 1 Albemarle St, South Shields NE33 1LZ, UK
About the event
Join us at Electric Beacon Books, South Shields, on Saturday 19th September as we celebrate the launch of The Thegn’s Daughter, the new historical novel from L.J. Morton, published by Crear Publishing.
This is a free-to-attend event and everyone is welcome.
867 AD. A world of Saxons and Vikings, loyalty and betrayal, duty and survival.
Elfwyne is the daughter of a Saxon thegn, raised in a world where duty and expectation have determined the course of her life. But when Viking raiders descend upon her home at Streanæshalch, the world she knows is shattered.
Caught between two cultures and facing a future she could never have imagined, Elfwyne must discover where her loyalties lie and, perhaps for the first time, what she wants her own life to become.
Rich in historical detail and bringing the turbulent world of ninth-century England vividly to life, The Thegn’s Daughter is a story of courage, identity,…