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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Harald Hardrada - Viking, Mercenary, King (Part Two)
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Exile. Warrior. Something more than a man.
In Part Two, Harald Hardrada arrives in Constantinople, the greatest city on earth, and enters the brutal, glittering world of the Varangian Guard.
What follows is a life lived at the edge, war in the Aegean, sieges in the east, and the dangerous intrigue of an empire where power shifts overnight. Wealth flows, reputations grow, and somewhere between fact and saga, Harald begins to transform into legend.
But nothing here is simple. Stories blur. Truth bends. And behind it all, something larger is taking shape.
Because every battle, every risk, every calculated move is leading him back north… and towards one final gamble in 1066.
At the Battle of Stamford Bridge, his story will end the only way it could, in steel, ambition, and fate.
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