Viking villainy
The book is the first part of Rosalind’s Grim Gruesome series, seven children’s books about a Viking villain called Grim Gruesome, which will be launched at Jorvik Viking Festival on Thursday.
“Vikings are something that I have always been interested in and I wanted to try to find a really exciting, accessible way of trying to tell the story about them to children,” she said. “I know from reading to children that children love hearing about sword fighting and treasure. You only have to mention sword fighting and they all shout out cool’.