‘Crackling with good deeds, fine characters and sparkling set pieces, it confirms yet again Cornwell’s reputation for masterly historical novels’ DAILY MAIL ‘It is all spectacular, rattling good stuff: war and torture; love, lust and loss’ THE TIMES ‘The battle scenes, as always, are masterful; and the vignettes of everyday living, in times of extreme hardship, have the ring of simple truth’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘A very fine writer’ ECONOMIST

• A MAJOR medieval saga, set in England and Europe • A Global brand – Bernard Cornwell is the author of over 50 novels published in 30 countries and 28 languages: he is the most successful and prolific historical novelist writing today • The bestselling Grail Quest series has sold over ONE MILLION copies to date • The series centres around master archer Thomas of Hookton and The Hundred Years’ War • Bernard Cornwell has sold over 20 million books around the world • Bernard Cornwell is a consistently bestselling author, with a loyal and ever increasing fanbase. Competition: enemy of god; hundred years war;emperor;cicero;Empire;pillars of the earth;column of fire;Kingsbridgeshardlake;falcon;sparta;. . by Wilbur Smith;Iggulden;Lee Child;Simon Scarrow;Ken Follett;c.s.cs forester;c.j. cj sansom;robert harris;Cornwall;George r r martin;robert harris;hastings;hilary mantel.