MARCUS PITCAITHLY

I review a fascinating new Arthurian novel by the owner of the Children of Arthur blog. It is remarkable, given how much the potency of the Arthurian legend is bound up with the prophecies that Arthur would one day return, that very few of the myriad modern retellings of the legend have approached it from this angle. Indeed, the only one which sticks in my mind is Avalon (1999), the sadly disappointing modern-day conclusion of Stephen R. Lawhead's initially powerful Pendragon