Book Launch: A Viking Legend by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie

October 16, 2019 — Brad Harris

Tags: Writing and Authors

Join us as we launch A Viking Legend: The Violaceous Amethyst by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie.

Venue: The Book Lounge, Cape Town

Date: 26 October 2019

Time: 2:30 pm

Author and literary agent Aoife Lennon-Ritchie will be doing a live reading from the book, and led in discussing the fantasy genre within South Africa by popular novelist Diane Awerbuck. Not a book launch to be missed! You can RSVP on Facebook here or by emailing booklounge@gmail.com.

Join us as we meet author and literary agent Aoife Lennon-Ritchie, hear about her new book, and experience a lively discussion between her and popular novelist Diane Awerbuck on the fantasy genre within South Africa. There will, of course, be time at the end for Q&A and signings.

Blurb for 'A Viking Legend'

This winter, siblings Ruairi and Dani Miller visit their grandmother in the legendary Viking island of Yondersaay. In less than twenty-four hours of their arrival, Ruairi is mistaken for the lost Boy King of Denmark, kidnapped by Vikings, and scheduled to be sacrificed at sundown. Granny isn’t very pleased. But when they are the only ones in town who fail to go “Viking,” the three turn to Granny’s extremely epic tales of the legends of Yondersaay, The Gifts of Odin, and King Dudo the Mightily Impressive for clues.

But not all stories end happily, and Ruari, Dani, and Granny will have to write their own happy ending if things are to return to normal. The Princess Bride meets Vikings in this enchanted tale of high adventure, buried treasure, villainous treachery, violent ends, and true love.

You can purchase A Viking Legend online or at The Book Lounge on the day.

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