Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry , which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry\'s English embroiderers.
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex..
Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.
Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry , which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry\'s English embroiderers