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Overview: Edmund Karlsson is hoping to right a few wrongs with his long-awaited writing career.
With the sale of his business prompting the father-of-two from North London into early retirement, he not only enrolled for the history degree he’d put off 40 years earlier, but also used his dissertation research to launch himself into the world of literature.
The avid reader, who cites Herman Hesse, John Irving and Gabriel Garcia Marquez amongst his influences, turned his 10,000-word university submission into the basis for his first historical novel.
And he hopes the publication of The Vandals series of novels will give the Vandal king, Gaeseric, the credit he deserves for his key contribution to the fall of the western Roman empire in the fifth century.
While extensively researched and enlightening, Edmund’s historical novels are also entertaining. He has mastered the ability to convert the multi-tribal complexities of the migration period into perfectly paced adventure stories.
Away from the laptop, Edmund can be found on long dog walks on Hampstead Heath pondering his intended plot lines.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 The Migration to the Rhine
The Asding Vandals were an insignificant Germanic tribe with an undistinguished military record who lost most of their battles. How this small tribe survived a great migration from modern day Hungary to Africa, and then go on to rule a Mediterranean kingdom so powerful it could sack Rome, is an incredible story. Many books and films cover the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, but few mention the key contribution of the Vandals. Yet if one man can be held responsible for the fall of Rome then the Vandal King Gaeseric would be the choice of many historians.
This series tells the story of the Vandal migration linking the few known historical events with plausible explanations of how those events could have taken place. This chaotic period featured a confusing number of different tribes and constantly fluctuating allegiances but let the narrator, a half-brother of the Vandal king, guide you through this unbelievable story. By the end you will agree that Gaeseric, King and the Vandals and Alans, deserves to be recognised as one of the great heroes of antiquity.
02 Rampage Through Gaul
The Asding Vandals were an insignificant Germanic tribe with an undistinguished military record who lost most of their battles. Somehow this small tribe not only survived a great migration from modern day Hungary to Africa but also created a Mediterranean kingdom so powerful it could sack Rome. Few books or films feature the Vandals as the key catalyst in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yet if one man can be held responsible for the fall of Rome then the Vandal King Gaeseric would be the choice of many historians.
This second book in the series begins with the Vandals and Alans crossing the Rhine on New Year’s Day 407 CE and devastating the city of Mongontiacum (Mainz). The chaos of a Roman civil war allows the Vandals and Alans to initially settle in Belgica, northwest Gaul (France). Some of their warriors are recruited to the army of Gerontius, a Romano-Briton general serving the usurper emperor Constantine. When Gerontius breaks with Constantine he promises land in Hispania (Spain) in return for the total support of the Vandal and Alan forces in Belgica. Thus, the rampage through Gaul began. The Vandals and Alans swept south through an unprotected Aquitaine, sacking the city of Burdigala (Bordeaux) on the way, leaving a trail of destruction behind them and eventually crossing the Pyrenees in autumn 409.
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