The Silurian - Book One: The Fox and the Bear

Though the editor's review of my book is overall good, and I thank him or her for their time in reading and reviewing my work, I would like to remind everyone coming to The Silurian series for the first time, that it is a first person spoken narrative, with a limited point of view, which is not pointed out in the review, and it is a very important point. It means certain aspects of my books will be limited, naturally, to Bedwyr's point of view, the narrator of this entire series. In other words, Bedwyr cannot impart historical or contextual information that he does not know about: the context of The Silurian is Post Roman Britain, Fifth century AD, at the time of the Saxon invasions: this context develops as Bedwyr grows and matures. In book one he is a youth of 16-19, with limited knowledge of his world and its greater context. He will learn this as the series progresses. He cannot tell things he has no knowledge of, and so, the context is limited.

Secondly, The Silurian is, as I said, a spoken narrative, and therefore, Bedwyr will speak informally: that is, he will not speak with regard to grammatically correct forms. Thus, he will say 'me' and not 'I', as this is his voice, his point of view, not mine. Translations for the few Welsh words are in the Glossary at the end of the book.