Arthurian Literature

Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. Ruth Galloway receives a phone call that bears shocking news. A friend of hers from college, Dan Golding, has been killed in a fire at his Lancashire home. Her shock turns to alarm when she gets a letter from Dan. He has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever but he needs Ruth's advice. Even more alarming, he sounds vulnerable and frightened. DCI Harry Nelson is also rediscovering his past. Up north for a holiday, he meets his former colleague Sandy MacLeod, now at Blackpool CID.

After sixteen years, the secret is ready to be told. The true king of England is near! But first he must pull the sword from the stone.

In The Legend of the Kestrel, the first book in The Sylvan Chronicles, Thomas escapes the Shadow Lord's assassins, losing everything. Orphaned, alone and on the run, he discovers a world of magic and sorcery. With the help of a family he never knew he had he begins to master the Talent and the ways of the blade, acquiring the skills he'll need to survive.

Sviska is a man of the shadows, an assassin without any one place to call his own. But in the Far North, he discovers a secret. Magic, long thought lost to the world, is alive. The genocide to destroy every elf, wizard, and sacred being of old is not yet complete. Sviska's masters work the strings of the world and he has been sent for a task he does not even fully understand yet. When at last he feels he has what he has always wanted, darkness falls upon the world.

Les sept couronnes sont exsangues. Le royaume panse ses plaies. Les guerres ont vidé les campagnes, les épidémies ont ruiné les récoltes et les pillards écument les terres dévastées. Pourtant il y a toujours autant de prétendants qui briguent la couronne : chacun dans son repaire échafaude des stratégies. Les Lannister multiplient les alliances fragiles, Stannis Baratheon se réfugie toujours davantage dans le culte de R'hllor.

Years have passed since the clash of shieldwalls 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.' Yet old Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people, unless they are paying him to steal or kill. He is a mercenary, in the employ of the cutthroat Nabor ap Nabor, and he has been ordered to murder a boy fleeing a burning city. No ordinary boy either. No, this boy is the son of King Constantine and the grandson of High King Ambrosius.

Bulfinch's Mythology is the ultimate collection of myths and legends that have inspired countless generations. This timeless masterpiece is divided into three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, each of which is a must-listen for anyone who loves mythology and legends.

Les têtes de nains tranchées ont beau s'accumuler sur le parvis de Castral-Roc, celle de Tyrion, meurtrier présumé de Tywin Lannister, son père, semble toujours solidement juchée sur ses deux épaules. Sa sœur Cersei, désormais régente, ne sait plus qui elle doit haïr le plus : lui ou la petite reine, Margaery, intrigante de basse-cour qui est parvenue à lui ravir le cœur du futur roi, son fils. Ses manœuvres ont beau être cousues de fil blanc, son joli minois et ses nombreux alliés font d'elle une rivale avec qui il faut compter. Pour autant, Cersei a encore quelques vilains tours dans son sac : ce n'est pas aux vieilles lionnes que l'on apprend à mordre.

Feu et sang, le roman à l’origine de la série TV originale "House of the Dragon". "Au septième jour, une nuée de corbeaux jaillit des tours de Peyredragon pour propager la parole de lord Aegon aux Sept Couronnes de Westeros. Ils volaient vers les sept rois, vers la Citadelle de Villevieille, vers les seigneurs tant petits que grands. Tous apportaient le même message : à compter de ce jour, il n’y aurait plus à Westeros qu’un roi unique. Ceux qui ploieraient le genou devant Aegon de la maison Targaryen conserveraient terres et titres. Ceux qui prendraient les armes contre lui seraient jetés à bas, humiliés et anéantis."

Les cartes changent une nouvelle fois de main : Cersei Lannister, la noire régente, s'empêtre dans la toile d'araignée qu'elle a tissée pour neutraliser sa bru, la petite reine ; arrivée au terme de son éprouvante quête, Lady Brienne, la pucelle de Torth, va faire une découverte aussi inattendue que mortelle ; Sansa Stark, marionnette entre les mains de Lord Petyr Baelish, dit Littlefingers, prépare un retour en force qui devrait faire couler beaucoup d'encre... et de sang ! Un chapitre de plus se clôt sur le royaume des Sept Couronnes, avec son lot d'alliances contre nature, de trahisons sanglantes et de morts inutiles.

La maison Greyjoy tremble sur ses fondations depuis la mort on ne peut moins naturelle de son dirigeant, Balon, roi auto-proclamé des îles de Fer. Les prétendants à sa succession sont nombreux, mais la parole du dieu Noyé, relayée par la voix du prophète Aeron Tifs-Trempes, s’est élevée sans équivoque : il faut tenir des états généraux de la royauté en présence de tous les vassaux. Cependant, tous gardent à l’esprit que les derniers en date, quelque deux mille ans plus tôt, se sont terminés dans un bain de sang.

Ridmark Arban has led the army of Andomhaim to the Isle of Kordain, ready to wage war upon the sinister Exarch of the Seven Temples and her fanatical soldiers. But powers older than either Andomhaim and the Seven Temples have fought over the Isle, and a lord of the dark elves sees the chance to seize the Isle for himself. And if he is not stopped, first the Isle and all the world will burn...

Une fois Stannis Baratheon parti reprendre Winterfell aux Bolton, Jon Snow peut enfin redevenir le maître du Mur. Il doit cependant composer avec Mélisandre, la prêtresse rouge, qui semble décidée à lui apporter son aide. Les flammes lui révèlent un avenir, mais lequel ? A Meereen, le blocus du port par les esclavagistes s'éternise, et Daenerys refuse d'envoyer ses dragons y mettre un terme flamboyant.

When Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his 18-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare, he learns that he's really in the eighth day - an extra day sandwiched between Wednesday and Thursday. Some people - like Jax and Riley - are Transitioners, able to live in all eight days, while others, including Evangeline, the elusive teenage girl who's been hiding in the house next door, exist only on this special day. And there's a reason Evangeline's hiding. She is a descendant of the powerful wizard Merlin....

Morgan Pendragon has another name now: Morgan Le Fay. As her true heritage slowly emerges from the mists of the past, Morgan renounces one possible future as the new ruler of the fierce Siabra fae and the wife of the Prince of Claws and vanishes through a portal—returning to Camelot and the Rose Court, where her friends and younger brother lie in mortal peril from Arthur's cruel wiles.

Fel'annár and The Company travel to the Motherland on a mission to protect their prince, amidst growing strife between the Silvan and Alpine warriors. While his nascent power continues to evolve, the story of his past emerges, and Fel'annár is thrust upon a perilous road of political intrigue and conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Elvenking makes a shocking discovery.

After the Black Knight breaks King Arthur’s sword in battle, Arthur gets a new one from the Lady of the Lake. But this is no ordinary sword.

In the aftermath of the war between Pendrath and its neighbors, peace has finally come to Camelot. For Morgan Le Fay and her friends, the calm is short-lived. A storm grows on the horizon. As a terrible evil that has been waiting hundreds of years begins to sweep through the land, Morgan and Draven must race to the aid of their allies, leaving their youngest and most vulnerable new family member in the care of trusted friends.

Plongé dans le chaos, le royaume des Sept Couronnes est en proie à une formidable pandémie de violence. Les héritiers du souverain défunt se disputent le trône dans d'âpres et sanglants combats, et les puissants seigneurs, ralliés aux diverses causes, négligent tout égard pour le peuple, qui supporte souffrances et famine. Les ennemis jurés, Catelyn et Tyrion, fourbissent chacun leurs armes.

Inspired by the Celtic legend and the spirit of the imagination, Christmas in Camelot is Mary Pope Osborne's gift to young listeners everywhere. It begins with a simple invitation to spend Christmas Eve in Camelot, a magical place that exists only in myth and fantasy. What Jack and Annie don't know is that the invitation will send them on a quest to save Camelot itself, not from destruction, but from being forgotten forever.