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Title: Credo by Melvyn Bragg ISBN: 0-340-66705-2 Publisher: Sceptre Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: 7th century Britain's way of life is under attack...
Comment: Melvyn Bragg's Credo is astonishing. It is so well researched and so well written that the characters live in your head long after you have closed the pages for the last time.

It's a classical battle; between the Pagans and the Christians, and between the Christian Celts and the Christian Catholics, set in a violent and turbulent period of history.

What makes this book is such memorable characters: Bega, the devout christian, destined to become a saint; the pagan woman whom Bega so despises, yet who is so human, Bega's "man", who's love she is prepared to forgo to persue her love affair with God.

Read this book. It will change your outlook on life, love and religion. It is wonderful. This book has been reprinted as "The Sword and The Miracle", but is also available as "Credo" from Amazon.co.uk

Rating: 4
Summary: This was an accurate portrayal of 7th Century Christianity.
Comment: I have many books that deal with the world of ancient Ireland. Subjects range from druids to archaeological finds to monasticism. Mr Bragg has synthesized this knowledge and created sympathetic characters in an accurate historical milieu. Modern people want characters to act with modern sensibilites in settings such as this. But such anachronistic leanings detract from the color and excitement of reading historical fiction. I found this book funny, inspirational, and sad though I was disappointed in how Bega and Chad died. I think it wasn't fair of the author to do away with them in such a off-handed manner. This book is now available under the title: The Sword and the Miracle from Random House.

Rating: 2
Summary: Could hardly wait to finish
Comment: I was very excited with the character development in the first 150 pages, but was disappointed with the remainder of the novel. With over 700 pages it is hard to beleive that so little can happen.