In his acclaimed Sunday Times top 10 hardback bestseller, Giles Kristian brings the epic story of the most celebrated of King Arthur's knights roaring to life as never before.
Family history (he is half Norwegian) and a passion for the fiction of Bernard Cornwell inspired GILES KRISTIAN to write. Set in the Viking world, his bestselling trilogies 'Raven' and 'The Rise of Sigurd' have been acclaimed by his peers, reviewers and readers alike. The novels The Bleeding Land and Brothers' Fury tell the story of a family torn apart by the English Civil War and he co-wrote Wilbur Smith's No.1 bestseller, Golden Lion. In his new novel, Lancelot, Giles plunges into the rich and swirling waters of our greatest island 'history'- the Arthurian legend. Giles Kristian lives in Leicestershire.
It is a masterpiece in the true sense of the word.
*CONN IGGULDEN, author of The Falcon of Sparta*
Some of us grew up with T H White’s Once and Future King as our
touchstone for authenticity in the Arthurian myths; others found
that Rosemary Sutcliff, Bernard Cornwell or Mary Stewart filled
that role. Giles Kristian pulls together the best of the best and
infuses it with his own utterly transformative understanding of
myth, magic – and the many faces of love . . . There are so many
modern retellings of the Arthurian myth, but this one stands head
and shoulders above the rest, in the company of true greatness.
*MANDA SCOTT, author of Boudica*
Without doubt this is Giles Kristian’s finest novel to date.
Glorious. Tragic. Lyrical. Totally gripping. I loved it.
*BEN KANE, author of Clash of Empires*
This most fascinating character from Arthurian legend has been
plucked from the 14th-century romances and positioned firmly back
in the early medieval environment he belongs in. Giles is an
extraordinary writer, able to capture sounds, smells, sensations in
a sentence. No other writer thinks and feels his way back to the
medieval past the way he does . . . Lancelot is an exceptional book
and does what only great historical fiction can do: transport you
back through time to feast, fight and feel alongside fascinating
characters from the past. No one does this better than Giles
Kristian.
*DR JANINA RAMIREZ*
A gorgeous, rich retelling of the Arthurian tale.
*THE TIMES*
I loved the post Roman chaos of Giles’ vision, just as I imagine it
would have been but with the life of that vision breathed into it
to render it in stark and bloody tones. But what I enjoyed most was
the sheer glorious brutality of the age, delivered by a writer with
the heart of a warrior and the soul of a poet. It’s really, really
good.
*ANTHONY RICHES, author of The Centurions series*
His Lancelot is no airy tale of magic and romance, but a muscular
telling of warriors and survival, beautifully rendered in a prose
that is both visceral and lyrical. This is historical fiction at
its very best.
*ELIZABETH FREMANTLE, author of The Girl in the Glass Tower*
Intense and powerful . . . written with deep expression and
enormous feeling. It is a marvellous historical adventure.
*Sunday Express*
Kristian is a writer with rare power to grab you at the opening of
the story and to keep the pace going. Lancelot is a powerful
reworking of the King Arthur myths. The pages turn by
themselves.
*JUSTIN HILL, author of Viking Fire*
My impression as I was reading Lancelot was of a flare being held
up in the gloom of this peculiarly dark passage of history. Every
detail illuminated, every motive believable, every heart laid bare.
A bright intensity but passing away, guttering, about to go out.
And, by the time his tale comes to its conclusion, that seems to be
his point. A gentle lament at the onrushing of a dark and
inexorable tide which comes to extinguish a bright and golden age
of Britain forever. Lancelot is a gem of a book. If there were six
stars, it could have them all. Or, to use the words of Spinal Tap,
“This one goes to eleven.” Loved it.
*THEODORE BRUN, author of The Wanderer Chronicles*
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