The Winter King: The Warlord Chronicles

There was snow when Arthurs tale began. It was a lifetime ago, in the last year of High King Uthers reign ... However you count the years it was long ago, once upon a time, in a land called Britain, and I was there.Derfel, once a captain in Arthurs warband, recalls the dramatic days of wilful Guinevere, arrogant Lancelot, abstracted Merlin and intolerant Bishop Sansum, vying for mastery amid faction and bitter chaos. But, above all he tells the story of Arthur, royal bastard, unwise lover and inspired warlord, the only man who can hold Uthers throne for its infant heir and unite Britains squabbling kingdoms against the enemy at their gates.Evoking the human realities behind the legends of romance and chivalry, Bernard Cornwell weaves a brutal, magnificent epic of war and love, magic and politics, as the old gods retreat before the spread of Christianity, and the Saxon invaders reach deeper into the heart of Britain ...