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Arthur is the greatest hero of all time, and Myrddin is his bard - a traveller and spinner of magical tales. But it's a strange and dangerous kind of enchantment that can turn a slave-girl into a goddess, and a raggle-taggle warmonger into a warrior legend... Exploring the power of storytelling and political machination, a master writer retells the Arthur legend - with a shocking spin. Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2008. "A masterpiece" Daily Telegraph
I was born at Whitehall, London, on September 11, 1741, many years after my brother John and my sister Elizabeth Mary. In examining the family papers from which the following detail is drawn, I should observe that difficulties often occurred by reason of the ancient hand-writing of many documents, and from several being written in the Latin language not easily deciphered; but the circumstances relative to the following dates were clearly ascertained as far as they are noted. The principal object is the possession of the Manor of Bradfield Combust, which is traced in the family of Canham till it came by marriage into that of Young. Bartholomew Canham the elder had two sons and two daughters. ...