Daniel Dacre: 3 books

A long time ago an Anglo-Saxon poet set in verse the Dream of the Rood. It is a tale told in part from the ‘point of view’ of the Cross (Rood), of how it was felled in a forest, of its intended fate as gibbet for a criminal and of its true destiny as the Cross of Christ. It could be the earliest...

A year in Africa as a volunteer teacher. The vision draws Richard Stokes, a young man just out of university, to escape. Fed up of his drab life in Britain of the 80s and filled with dreams, he finds them somewhat dashed in the harshness and beauty of his new posting. Grandeur and tragedy seem intertwined...

Solomon Seal is a freak. A bullied freak. Someone almost born to take blows from those bigger and better than he. Starting another hateful year at Renishaw Middle School, he finds the school days aren't as bad as he feared. They're worse. And better. He makes a couple of good friends. He actually...