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This is a riot. Set in a Britain of 2023 where the Norman Conquest never happened, it's about Saxons and Norse and Celts all with their own little kingdoms, bickering and oppressing each other, on a shitty little island in northern Europe that no one cares about. Without unification, there was no colonisation - and so the Mughal Empire and an EU-type federation of African states are the world's superpowers. And amid this we have a police procedural with riotously imaginative worldbuilding and characters, culture and religion beautifully depicted and a general sense that the author is having an amazing time. It is a bit soppy about Christianity - seen here as a minor 2023 cult - and a little forgetful about Islam and Judaism, but I enjoyed it a lot.