Hodd

Adam Thorpe

RRP: £17.99

Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE

Publication Date : 04/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The new novel from Adam Thorpe, best known, perhaps, for "Ulverton". It is a thrilling re-examination of the Robin Hood myth, told through the discovery of a medieval document in a ruined church on the Somme, the testimony of the monk Matthew describing life in the greenwood with the bandit and heretic, Hodd.

Publisher's description:

Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the rich to give to the poor - but there is no historical proof to back this up. This title provides a possible answer to this famous question.

ISBN: 9780224079433