# The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (Paperback)

**A book of the year for the _New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vulture, Esquire, Goodreads, Elle, NPR, Vox, New York Post, Lit Hub, Cosmo, People, Paste, Vanity Fair, Polygon,_ BookBub_, BookRiot and more!_**  
  
'If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you'll love _The Bright Sword_ . . . the creator of _The Magicians_ has woven another spell.'**GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, author of _A Game of Thrones_**  
  
'Made me love fantasy again . . . For pretty much everyone, _The Bright Sword_ is a must-read' **PASTE MAGAZINE, Book of the Year**  
  
'The best fantasy of the year.' _**THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Book of the Year**_  
  
'For anyone who's ever craved a seat at the Round Table. Utterly enchanting.' **REBECCA YARROS, author of Fourth Wing**  
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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.  
  
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.  
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 who are looking for a way to fight darkness and reforge a broken land**

## Details

- **Price:** 10.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Random House Publishing Group
- **Type:** Lev Grossman
- **Tags:** All Books, Fantasy

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