The Giants’ Dance - Hardcover

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Robert Carter was born exactly five hundred years after the first battle of the Wars of the Roses. He was brought up in the Midlands and later on the shores of the Irish Sea where his forebears hail from. He was variously educated in Britain, Australia and the United States, then worked for some years in the Middle East and remote parts of Africa. He travelled widely in the East, before joining the BBC in London in 1982. His interests have included astronomy, pole-arm fighting, canals, collecting armour, steam engines, composing music and enjoying the English countryside, and he has always maintained a keen interest in history. Today he lives in a 'village' that only sounds rural – Shepherd's Bush.

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The 15th Century as it should have been

In the peaceful village of Nether Norton life goes on as it has for countless centuries in the Vale. As the villagers celebrate gathering in the first of their harvest, Will looks back fondly on the two years since he and his sweetheart Willow circled the fire together, especially the year since their daughter Bethe was born. But despite his good fortune, a feeling of unease is stirring inside him, and when he sees an unnatural storm raging on the horizon he senses that his past is coming back to haunt him.

Four years ago Will cracked the mighty Doomstone in half and so brought the bloody battle of Verlamion to an end. It seemed then that the lust for war in men's hearts had been calmed forever. But now the light in the sky heralds a new threat, and Will calls on Gwydion, a wizard of deep knowledge and power once known as 'Merlyn'. Gwydion suspects the hand of his old enemy, the sorcerer Maskull The battlestones that are scattered throughout the Realm are once again working to hasten a devastating war between King Hal and Duke Richard of Ebor – and Maskull intends to manipulate them to his own sinister ends.

Only Will, whom Gwydion believes to be an incarnation of King Arthur, has the skill to break the power of the battlestones. When Will last left Nether Norton he was an unworldly youth of thirteen. Now he is a husband and father, he has a lot more to lose. But he has a whole Realm to save.