{"product_id":"by-force-alone","title":"Lavie Tidhar: By Force Alone (Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet) [2021] paperback","description":"\u003ci\u003eThere is a legend... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritannia, AD 535 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Romans have gone. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisation's carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of just such a man. Like the others, he had a sword. He slew until slain. Unlike the others, we remember him. We remember King Arthur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes, boggarts and tod-lowries, Robin-Goodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, and predators of rarer appetite yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a legend forged from a pack of self-serving, turd-gilding, weasel-worded lies told to justify foul deeds and ill-gotten gains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story - viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane - of a Dark Age myth that shaped a nation.\u003c\/p\u003eEVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT \u003ci\u003eBY FORCE ALONE\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A bloody, bravura performance, which Tidhar pulls off with graphic imagery and modern vernacular' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As eclectic as the \u003ci\u003eSword in the Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and as ruthless as \u003ci\u003eA Game of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e, this retelling of the whole Arthurian legend stands alongside the very best' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The narrative voice is deadly serious but there's a strong undercurrent of gleefulness to the profanity, violence and otherworldly magic that makes \u003ci\u003eBy Force Alone\u003c\/i\u003e a whole lot of fun to dive into' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lavie Tidhar has crafted a punk epic on the mouldering bones of legend and jolted it to life with ten thousand volts of knowing wit and fury. \u003ci\u003eBy Force Alone\u003c\/i\u003e eviscerates the complacent posturing of the Arthurian myth, explodes the well-worn conventions of the tale and from the shiny jagged pieces assembles a wholly fresh rollercoaster ride of cheap violence, vicious magic and messy human truth' Richard Morgan. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A twisted Arthur retelling mixing the historical and the magical with a very modern eye. Brutal and vicious, funny, \u003ci\u003ePeaky Blinders\u003c\/i\u003e of the Round Table' Adrian Tchaikovsky. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tidhar, Lavie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42077825499321,"sku":"9781838931292","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51957797650771,"sku":"XV81838931292","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/tidhar-lavie-lavie-tidhar-by-force-alone-anti-matter-of-britain-quartet-2021-paperback-9781838931292-58310928171347.jpg?v=1758638876","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/by-force-alone","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}