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ever craved a seat at the Round Table. Utterly enchanting.” —Rebecca Yarros #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame “If you love King Arthur as much as I do
you’ll love Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword a fresh and engrossing take on the Matter of
Britain featuring a colorful cast of Round Table knights who don’t often get as much story time
as they deserve. The creator of The Magicians has woven another spell.” —George R. R. Martin
#1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones The #1 New York Times bestselling
author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend
for the new millennium A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a
spot on the Round Table only to find that he’s too late. The king died two weeks ago at the
Battle of Camlann leaving no heir and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table
survive. They aren’t the heroes of legend like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of
the Round Table from the edges of the stories like Sir Palomides the Saracen Knight and Sir
Dagonet Arthur’s fool who was knighted as a joke. They’re joined by Nimue who was Merlin’s
apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill. Together this ragtag fellowship
will set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance. But Arthur’s death has
revealed Britain’s fault lines. God has abandoned it and the fairies and monsters and old gods
are returning led by Arthur’s half-sister Morgan le Fay. Kingdoms are turning on each other
warlords lay siege to Camelot and rival factions are forming around the disgraced Lancelot and
the fallen Queen Guinevere. It is up to Collum and his companions to reclaim Excalibur solve
the mysteries of this ruined world and make it whole again. But before they can restore Camelot
they’ll have to learn the truth of why the lonely brilliant King Arthur fell and lay to rest
the ghosts of his troubled family and of Britain’s dark past. The first major Arthurian epic
of the new millennium The Bright Sword is steeped in tradition full of duels and quests
battles and tournaments magic swords and Fisher Kings. It also sheds a fresh light on Arthur’s
Britain a diverse complex nation struggling to come to terms with its bloody history. The
Bright Sword is a story about imperfect men and women full of strength and pain who are
looking for a way to reforge a broken land in spite of being broken themselves.
