I’m not completely new to Anglo-Saxon history, but I’m looking for something pretty comprehensive that goes into good detail about the relationships/tensions between different kingdoms, as well as giving a good overview of the overall period up to 1066.
“The Anglo-Saxon World” by N.J Higham and M.J Ryan has good reviews, but if anyone has read anything superb, I’m open for suggestions.
I'd recommend The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage by Rumble, Hill et al. and Beyond the Burghal Hidage by Baker and Brookes, and also Landscapes of Defence edited by Reynolds et al. Also Lavelle's Alfred's Wars and The Danes in Wessex, Pauline Stafford's work on Æthelflæd and Molyneux's The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century.
The 1971 edition of Stenton's Anglo-Saxon England is also still fairly comprehensive.