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Arthurian (ca 450-600)

Lancelot

By Giles Kristian - Published 2018

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Son of a 5th-century Breton king ousted by a rival, eight-year-old Lancelot is an orphaned fugitive taken under the wing of the Lady ...Read Review

The Sword of Ice and Fire

By John Matthews - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy

This novel opens with the Enchanter, Merlin, arriving in Avalon, carrying a baby, Arthur. Here he encounters the mysterious Nine women who guard ...Read Review

A Gathering of Ravens

By Scott Oden - Published 2017

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This novel creates a rich, grim fantasy world made from Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic myth with strands of Tolkien. Obscure names and references ...Read Review

Yvain: The Knight of the Lion

By Andrea Offermann (illus.) - By M.T. Anderson - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This retells, in graphic novel format, a 12th-century Arthurian romance by Chretien de Troyes, the foremost French poet of narrative verse in the ...Read Review

Saxon Tales: The King Who Threw Away His Throne

By Terry Deary - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Books by Terry Deary are always popular for younger children, and this is one of his new Saxon Tales. The King who Threw ...Read Review

The Song-Sayer’s Lament

By David Ebsworth - Published 2016

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The song sayer in question is the blind Morgose, but this tale of post-Roman Britain is narrated by Merriden, friend and mentor of ...Read Review

Caliburn: Merlin’s Tale

By Virgil Renzulli - Published 2015

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Over the years, the story of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone has been reworked in every facet of media—books, ...Read Review

The Saxon Wolves

By Penny Ingham - Published 2016

Genres:

Adventure Romance

Anya is both princess and priestess in Germania, but she is exiled for questioning the High Priest’s decisions and ordered to travel ...Read Review

Camelot’s Queen: Guinevere’s Tale Book Two

By Nicole Evelina - Published 2016

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The story of the fabled Queen Guinevere continues in Camelot’s Queen, the second volume in Nicole Evelina’s ‘Guinevere’s Tale’ series. ...Read Review

Daughter of Destiny (Guinevere’s Tale Book One)

By Nicole Evelina - Published 2015

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Nicole Evelina takes a fantasy-supernatural approach to the old familiar story of Queen Guinevere from Arthurian legends in Daughter of Destiny, the first ...Read Review