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Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

New novel

 



Years have passed since the clash of shield-walls echoed across the land . . .

The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur - 'In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again.'

Ageing mercenary Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people. Unless they are paying him to steal or kill. Now he has been ordered to murder a boy. But this is no ordinary child. The son of King Constantine and the grandson of High King Ambrosius, this boy could be the saviour of Britain . . . if he lives.

Betraying his companions and returning to a world he believed he'd forsaken, Beran vows to take the boy to the one place that still holds out against the invader: Camelot.

Hunted by Saxons, Queen Morgana and those he deceived, he will seek the help of Guivret, called the Little King, and the Saracen, Palamedes who once rode beneath Arthur's banner. They will meet the doomed lovers, Tristan and Isolde. And they will fight for their lives and for each other.

For if there's to be any hope for Britain, Beran must deliver the boy to Camelot. And to do that, he must come to terms with his past . . .

Arthur is the breathtaking new novel from the author of the bestselling Lancelot, called 'a masterpiece' by Conn Iggulden . . .

Monday, 3 June 2024

Bernard Cornwell Winter King trilogy

 My local charity shop had these. We have them on audio book which lacks the gazeteers of characters and places. They were originally published 1995-7. I didn't bother watching the tv adaptation. Anybody rate it?


Thursday, 16 March 2023

Bernard Cornwell on his Arthurian trilogy

 


Bernard says: "Of course there is no real history to go on with the Arthurian period. There is archaeological detail, and we’ve got certain records which seem to be extremely unreliable. So there isn’t actually a history, except for the Battle of Mount Badon. In the end I had to make up my mind as to what was the real Arthur. In the end maybe this is why the story is so malleable. It isn’t history; it’s a story." Read about them here

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Arthur Dux Bellorum Tim Walker

 Fiction series. Have not read any of them but this edition is reviewed here

Also read Tim Walker's blog post on the origins of Dux Bellorum

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

The Winter King filming wraps

 The adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian novel series has finished filming. Details of the cast and so forth here

New Wiglaf cavalry

  New Wiglaf cavalry for their Age of Penda range designed by Mark Copplestone. Available from North Star