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Dragon's Child

M.K. Hume · 448 pages

The epic tale of the man destined to becaome Arthur, high king of the Britons.

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The Winter King

Bernard Cornwell · 435 pages

Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back the Saxon enemy, Arthur is embroiled in a doomed rom

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Firelord

Parke Godwin · 396 pages

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Lancelot And The Wolf

Sarah Luddington

“King Arthur has dominated my life for decades and now I am banished from his side. I am not certain either of us can survive this torment...” Lancelot, the greatest Knight of Camelot is almost flogged to death, exiled, and stripped of the King’s grace. He travels from England to Europe to begin a lonely, desperate life when he meets someone who will alter his perspective forever. Suddenly, he

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The Road to Avalon

Joan Wolf · 368 pages

The pageantry and passionate intrigues of King Arthur’s court are expertly re-created in this historical novel—the only Arthurian novel in which all of the central characters are portrayed as intrinsically good people. This realistic retelling of the legend shows Arthur severing the bonds of bastardy, vanquishing the Saxons, and loving one woman. As the daring teenage warrior prepares for the thro

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The Skystone

Jack Whyte · 512 pages

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The Lost Queen

Signe Pike · 527 pages

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The Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland · 340 pages

In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

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Merlin's Blade

Robert Treskillard

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Taliesin

Stephen R. Lawhead · 512 pages

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The Winter Prince

Elizabeth Wein · 202 pages

Medraut, the bitter, illegitimate son of King Artos, is tempted into joining Morgause, the king's treacherous sister, in a plot against Lleu, the legitimate Prince of Britain.

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Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle

Rosalind Miles · 359 pages

In the golden time of Arthur and Guenevere, the Island of the West shines like an emerald in the sea one of the last strongholds of Goddess-worship and Mother-right. Isolde is the only daughter and heiress of Ireland s great ruling queen, a lady as passionate in battle as she is in love. La Belle Isolde, like her mother, is famed for her beauty, but she is a healer instead of a warrior, of all sur

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The Forever King

Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy · 368 pages

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Guinevere: A Medieval Romance

Lavinia Collins · 390 pages

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The Prince and the Pilgrim

Mary Stewart · 317 pages

Prince Alexander is spirited away as an infant to escape the jealous rage of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who murdered Alexander's father, but when he comes of age he must overcome the temptations of love, an enchantress and the Holy Grail in order to seek justice.

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Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff · 480 pages

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Child of the Northern Spring

Persia Woolley · 484 pages

A recreation of the Arthurian legend which chronicles Guinevere's youth and her subsequent marriage to Arthur in Britain in the Dark Ages.

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The King's Peace

Jo Walton · 419 pages

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Guinevere

Sharan Newman

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In Camelot's Shadow

Sarah Zettel · 490 pages

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Sword of Darkness

Kinley MacGregor · 410 pages

The new king of Camelot wears no shining armor: Arthur and his knights have fallen and a new king rules. In the darkest forest... A scared, forsaken youth has become the most powerful—and feared—man in the world. Ruthless and unrestrained, Kerrigan has long ceased to be human. In the heart of London... A spirited peasant mired in drudgery, Seren dreams of becoming her own woman, but ne

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The Hawk's Gray Feather

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia Kennealy · 416 pages

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The Last Legion

Valerio Massimo Manfredi · 448 pages

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The Lost Years

T.A. Barron · 304 pages

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