The Bright Sword
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  • Published: 16 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529939132
  • Imprint: Del Rey
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $34.99
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The Bright Sword

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16 Jul 2024
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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.
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'You'll love Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword' George R.R. Martin

'This book is not only one of the best of the year, but it’s one of the best Arthurian novels ever' Lit Hub

'Utterly enchanting' Rebecca Yarros

'a beautifully written, suitably weird, very human take on King Arthur' Joe Abercrombie

'Breathtaking' Publishers Weekly

'This is why we read fantasy' Ava Reid

When gifted young knight Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place on the Round Table, he quickly discovers that he’s too late:The king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left.

And the survivors aren’t the heroes of legend either, like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, 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.

But it’s up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods are returning, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again.

But first they’ll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely, brilliant King Arthur fell.

The first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium, 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.
  • Published: 16 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529939132
  • Imprint: Del Rey
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is a novelist and Time magazine's book critic. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he has written articles for the New York Times, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and the Village Voice. In 2005 his debut novel Codex was published to great critical acclaim. He is also the author of The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Also by Lev Grossman

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Praise for The Bright Sword

For anyone who’s ever craved a seat at the Round Table. Utterly enchanting.

Rebecca Yarros, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing

Compulsively readable and expertly told. Lev Grossman transports the reader with such assurance and finesse. Just pick it up and lose yourself inside these pages. You won’t want to leave until the tale is done.

Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling and Lone Women

PRAISE FOR LEV GROSSMAN'S MAGICIANS TRILOGY

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The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea . . . dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.

George R. R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones

A darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself.

The New Yorker

The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.

The Times

Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along . . . Literary perfection.

Erin Morgenstern

Brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath.

Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted

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 colourful 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, author of A Game of Thrones

A novel that is as much about the Matter of Britain as it is our own florid and layered imaginings of it. Breathlessly weaves themes of faith, duty, and selfhood with a classic sword-and-sorcery adventure - this is why we read fantasy.

Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
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