The King Arthur Trilogy Book One
Dragon's Child

I have read lots t of Arthurian novels and it is one of my favourite genres. This one is great , third to my other two favourites Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy and Nancy McKenzies Queen of Camelot and Grail Prince. It beats Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon and Stephen Lawheads Pendragon Cycle.......more

Dragon's Child is the first novel in a trilogy by M K Hume, dealing with the historical version of the tale of King Arthur. Here he is Artorex, and is a cuckoo in the nest of Ector and his Roman wife. Artorex lives a life of mundane servitude, referred to as Lump, until the day three mysterious stra......more

I Loved this book, brilliant!......more

As usual, this book arrived at my doorstep free of charge. Unusually, I can't determine with any specificity exactly why it did so. If I had to guess I'd say it was the Atria program via Simon and Schuster. Despite that kind and mysterious consideration, my candid and baldfaced opinions appear below......more

I've read a lot of Arthurian legend stories over the years, some of them awful, many very good and a few that were brilliant (e.g. Once and Future King). Like M K Hume, a few of the authors treated Arthur as an historical figure, a great king at the end of the Roman/Celtic years fighting off the ram......more