If the tale didn’t go down like this, it should have.” – Silvia Moreno-García, author of Gods of Jade and Shadow and Mexican Gothic “Tidhar turns King Arthur’s court into a gangster’s paradise, full of wheelings and dealings, and true grit. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts and The Unwritten “Drawing on everything from wushu movies to The Wire by way of Tarkovsky and Tarantino, By Force Alone is wild, surprising and entertaining, and a hugely immersive read.” – M.R. This is the story - viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane - of a Dark Age myth that shaped a nation. This 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. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes and tod-lowries, Robin-Goodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, boggarts and predators of rarer appetite yet. This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. Unlike the others, we remember him as King Arthur. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisation’s carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn. British Fantasy Award 2021 Nominee The Financial Times Best Summer Books 2020 Selection The Spectator’s Unmissable Summer Books 2020 Selection Locus Recommended Reading List 2020 Selection
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