Giles Kristian

Giles Kristian (born 1975)[1] is a bestselling novelist, known for his action adventure novels in the historical fiction genre. He is best known for his Raven series, about a young man’s coming of age amongst a band of Viking warriors. His first novel, the bestselling[2] Raven: Blood Eye, [3] was published to great acclaim (including an accolade from Bernard Cornwell).[4] Two further novels complete the Raven Saga; Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves, and to date the books have been published in eight languages.[5] He has written two books set during the English Civil War The Bleeding Land and Brothers Fury published by Transworld Publishers. In 2015 he co-wrote Golden Lion with Wilbur Smith, part of Smith's bestselling Courtney series. This book was a no.1 bestseller across three continents. Kristian’s second Viking series, The Rise of Sigurd trilogy, comprises God of Vengeance (a Times Book of the Year) Winter’s Fire and Wings of the Storm. Kristian worked as a narrative designer on the Multiplayer online survival roleplaying game Valnir Rok, developed by encurio GmbH. Kristian’s latest novel, Lancelot, was published in 2018 and tells the story of one of the great figures of British myth and legend. It reached No. 6 in The Sunday Times bestseller list and No. 3 in The Times bestseller list.
Giles is also the co-founder of UK based production company World Serpent Productions http://www.worldserpentproductions.com, for which he writes and produces, his 2016 short film The Last Viking (written and produced by Kristian and directed by Philip Stevens) was selected for the 2017 Aesthetica film festival, and the 2017 Midlands Movies Awards. Kristian is an executive producer for World Serpent Productions debut feature film Lapwing due for release in winter 2018.