Books like The Once and Future King
The boy Arthur is tutored into kingship by a backwards-living Merlin and then must watch, across four linked books, the round table he built collapse into civil war.
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The Bright Sword
A young swordsman arrives at Camelot to join the Round Table just after King Arthur has died, and falls in with the misfit knights who remain, trying to hold Britain together.
The Mists of Avalon
The Arthur cycle retold from Morgan le Fay and the women of Avalon, as Christianity closes in on the old Britain of the Goddess and the mists behind the barge to the island begin to thin.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Malory's compilation of the Arthurian legends, from Arthur's birth and the sword in the stone through the quest for the Grail and Lancelot and Guinevere's love to the last battle.
The Buried Giant
An elderly British couple leave their village in post-Arthurian England to find a son they barely remember, crossing a land where a dragon's breath has made everyone forget.
The Winter King
Derfel, a Saxon-born warrior turned monk, looks back on fifth-century Britain, torn by Saxon invasion and quarrelling kings, and on Arthur, a bastard son of the high king, sworn to protect the infant heir Mordred and hold the land together.
The Crystal Cave
Merlin, the unwanted bastard son of a Welsh princess, tells of his childhood in fifth-century Britain, his gift of sight and the events that lead to the conception of Arthur.
The Witch's Heart
Angrboda, a witch burned by Odin and left for dead, retreats to a forest at the edge of the worlds, where the trickster Loki finds her and the children they have together become central to the end of everything.
Spindle's End
Cursed at her name-day by a wicked fairy, the infant princess is spirited away to a remote village by a young fairy, Katriona, who raises her as an ordinary girl called Rosie, who can talk to animals.
Fool
King Lear retold by Pocket, the king's fool: bawdy, irreverent and, under all the jokes, surprisingly tender.
Wicked
The Wicked Witch of the West as a green-skinned girl from Munchkinland who becomes a student radical for the rights of talking Animals, long before a farmhouse falls from Kansas.
The Unicorn Hunters
In 1490 Anne, the young duchess of Brittany, is under pressure to make a marriage that will hand her duchy to its enemies, and to buy time she lures the French envoy into a hunt for a unicorn in the enchanted forest of Brocéliande.
Puck of Pook's Hill
Acting A Midsummer Night's Dream in a Sussex meadow, two children summon Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, who brings them people from England's past to tell their stories.