The second thrilling novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's bestselling Arthur trilogy Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream: He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the beautiful Winnie, but maintain his ties with his friend Gatty. And to become a Crusader, with all the questions of might and right involved. Just as he so brilliantly did in THE SEEING STONE, Kevin Crossley-Holland weaves Arthurian legend with everyday medieval life in the unforgettable story of one hero's coming of age.
Finally banishing the Saxon scourge from his lands, King Arthur, uniting Celtic Britain at last, finds his reign threatened from within by both his bitter queen and second wife, Wenhaver, and a traitor, and, with Merlin gone, must decide ...
FOREWORD Enemy of God is the second novel of the Warlord series , and immediately follows the events described in The Winter King . In that book the King of Dumnonia and High King of Britain , Uther , dies and is succeeded by his lamed ...
Twelve long blood-soaked years have passed since Artor fulfilled his destiny and was crowned High King of the Britons but his kingdom is now being undermined from within. As Artor faces betrayal, will Britain be torn apart?
The Seeing Stone is the first volume in the Arthur trilogy.
Arthurian legend comes to life in the first novel in this remarkable, award-winning sagaThirteen-year-old Arthur de Caldicot lives on a manor, desperately waiting for the moment he can become a knight.
Praise for Persia Woolley's Guinevere Trilogy "In Queen of the Summer Stars, Woolley employs the same sensitive revelation of character and attention to cultural detail that made Child of the Northern Spring such an enchantment." —San ...
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Headline Review."
And his seeing stone shows him the last days of King Arthur's court -- a great dream destroyed, but also a glorious legend rising from the ruins. Likewise in this book, Arthur becomes a man worthy of his kingly name.
Originally published: Great Britain: Headline Review, 2009.
This is the tale not only of a broken love remade, but also of forces both earthly and unearthly that threaten everything Arthur stands for.