There is a legend... Britannia, AD 535 The Romans have gone. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisations carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn.This is the story of just such a man. Like the others, he had a sword. He slew until slain. Unlike the others, we remember him. We remember King Arthur.This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes, boggarts and todlowries, RobinGoodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, and predators of rarer appetite yet.This is the story of a legend forged from a pack of selfserving, turdgilding, weaselworded lies told to justify foul deeds and illgotten gains.This is the story viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane of a Dark Age myth that shaped a nation.EVERYONES TALKING ABOUT BY FORCE ALONE A bloody, bravura performance, which Tidhar pulls off with graphic imagery and modern vernacular Guardian. As eclectic as the Sword in the Stone and as ruthless as A Game of Thrones, this retelling of the whole Arthurian legend stands alongside the very best Daily Mail. The narrative voice is deadly serious but theres a strong undercurrent of gleefulness to the profanity, violence and otherworldly magic that makes By Force Alone a whole lot of fun to dive into Spectator. Lavie Tidhar has crafted a punk epic on the mouldering bones of legend and jolted it to life with ten thousand volts...

Binding: Paperback;480 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: FJH; Weight: 480 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 35

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