About the book:

Scottish Wars of Independence, 1297. Scottish resistance has been crushed, and King Edward, Hammer of the Scots, now rules the North.
Doesn’t he?

At Chester Castle, young apprentice armourer Harry has no idea just how much his life is going to change from the moment he is told to guard an imprisoned Scottish 
nobleman: the rebel Andrew de Moray. The boy’s momentary carelessness gives the prisoner all he needs: an opportunity to escape. Harry finds himself kidnapped, and on his way to Scotland.

Soon, he is caught up in the Northern Rising with its skirmishes and stealth attacks. But these are nothing to the storm of questions in Harry’s mind: Whose cause is right? Why has his new master joined forces with the outlaw William Wallace? Can his new friend 
Euphemia be trusted?

As arrows fly and swords clash at the battle of Stirling Bridge, Harry must choose: Whose side is he on?

I made a video about the background to the book:

The book was inspired by a dog walk in a new location. While walking above the village of Avoch, I stumbled onto the news that William Wallace was not the sole commander at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. No, Wallace co-commanded his most famous victory with a little known Highland nobleman called Andrew de Moray. This is our dog Merry on the site of de Moray’s castle on the Black Isle in the Highlands.

Suffice to say, de Moray intrigued me enough to write a story, putting him centre stage, seen through the eye of an English boy.

As with all my books, just hop across to the resources section on this website to download the teaching resources.