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The Silurian Book One The Fox and The Bear
Because The Silurian bravely smashes the conventional mould on novels about King Arthur and takes the reader on an entirely new journey into the Arthurian world of Dark Age Britain.
In The Silurian, Arthur returns, his story told like it has never been told before. A brave new and astounding interpretation of the King Arthur legends, spoken with the unique voice of Arthur's tortured foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr, called The Fox.
Hear an intimate first person narrative given honestly by Bedwyr, as he takes you on his life's journey to know the boy who grew into the man called King Arthur. These are the intense and passionate narrative days of their lives. From the day Arthur won his first battle at aged fifteen, and gained his rise to power, Bedwyr relates openly and honestly their most personal histories.
Book One of The Silurian received an 'Honorary Mention' in the 2007 London Book Festival.
Review: 'The Silurian - The Fox and the Bear' is not for the faint at heart. It is very descriptive and adult geared with battle scenes and interior stories that will keep you reading until the very end. It is action packed with romance in amongst the struggles of the characters. I believe this to be a highly evolved piece of reading for those who are masters of the Saxon battling days of long ago. You must pay attention to this story in order to achieve the reading pleasure author L.A. Wilson has prescribed in this novel. Mind Fog Reviews ~
Anastasia Cassella-Young www.anastasiasbookattic.com
"The Silurian is art - it is in a different space from the usual publisher's requirements. For some time art in all areas has been going unrecognised. The Silurian will burst out from your computer in a blaze of fire and passion. And it will reach those, like me, who are searching desperately for nourishment - heart and soul nourishment - the real thing, not endless disappointment. The Silurian lives and will be known!"
EilyStar; writer/reviewer on HarperCollins' Authonomy.com
In The Silurian, Arthur returns, his story told like it has never been told before. A brave new and astounding interpretation of the King Arthur legends, spoken with the unique voice of Arthur's tortured foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr, called The Fox.
Hear an intimate first person narrative given honestly by Bedwyr, as he takes you on his life's journey to know the boy who grew into the man called King Arthur. These are the intense and passionate narrative days of their lives. From the day Arthur won his first battle at aged fifteen, and gained his rise to power, Bedwyr relates openly and honestly their most personal histories.
Book One of The Silurian received an 'Honorary Mention' in the 2007 London Book Festival.
Review: 'The Silurian - The Fox and the Bear' is not for the faint at heart. It is very descriptive and adult geared with battle scenes and interior stories that will keep you reading until the very end. It is action packed with romance in amongst the struggles of the characters. I believe this to be a highly evolved piece of reading for those who are masters of the Saxon battling days of long ago. You must pay attention to this story in order to achieve the reading pleasure author L.A. Wilson has prescribed in this novel. Mind Fog Reviews ~
Anastasia Cassella-Young www.anastasiasbookattic.com
"The Silurian is art - it is in a different space from the usual publisher's requirements. For some time art in all areas has been going unrecognised. The Silurian will burst out from your computer in a blaze of fire and passion. And it will reach those, like me, who are searching desperately for nourishment - heart and soul nourishment - the real thing, not endless disappointment. The Silurian lives and will be known!"
EilyStar; writer/reviewer on HarperCollins' Authonomy.com
The Top Five Reasons The Silurian Series On Lulu.com is the Bravest King Arthur Book
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1 - The Silurian: Book One; The Fox and The Bear
Hear the words of a young warrior, speaking with power of a time when men were committed to their warlords and wielding swords that break...
Set in the Dark Ages of Post-Roman Britain, The Silurian is the story of King Arthur told in a way that has never been done before. A first person narrative spoken in grim and honest detail of the lives of Arthur and his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox.
And it is Bedwyr who tells the story of his life with Arthur, and of his own struggles to know this powerful friend of his. A boy of sixteen, taken to his first great conflict, Bedwyr begins his story on the battlefield where Arthur lies missing after having won his first engagement to war against the invading Saxons, Hengist and Horsa.
This is the Fifth Century AD, a time of fierce honesty, as Bedwyr's own words speak it, the words of a young warrior who lives his life in the blood, guts, turmoil and love of an age that was both brutal and brilliant.
Hear the words of a young warrior, speaking with power of a time when men were committed to their warlords and wielding swords that break...
Set in the Dark Ages of Post-Roman Britain, The Silurian is the story of King Arthur told in a way that has never been done before. A first person narrative spoken in grim and honest detail of the lives of Arthur and his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox.
And it is Bedwyr who tells the story of his life with Arthur, and of his own struggles to know this powerful friend of his. A boy of sixteen, taken to his first great conflict, Bedwyr begins his story on the battlefield where Arthur lies missing after having won his first engagement to war against the invading Saxons, Hengist and Horsa.
This is the Fifth Century AD, a time of fierce honesty, as Bedwyr's own words speak it, the words of a young warrior who lives his life in the blood, guts, turmoil and love of an age that was both brutal and brilliant.
- The Silurian is Art
it is unique
it is bold
it is passionate and enduring
it takes the reader on a whole new journey into the legends of King Arthur
uncompromisingly strips away the silliness of fairy magic and replaces it with gritty reality that is no less enthralling
it is not for the faint of heart, but for those seeking bold new interpretations for the new century, the 21st century reader- and it liberates the reader from the phoney romance of "Lancelot loves Guinevere!" and gives back some far more intensely original...read it and find out...
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- susannaduffy susannaduffy Nov 21, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
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- marycade marycade Jan 3, 2009 @ 7:32 am
- .A.Wilson has achieved the impossible and given new life to King Arthur.Farewell (and good riddance) to the golden haired middle manager trying to be noble and 'nice'. Here is a wild and passionate Arthur, Arthur the Silurian, with 'thick straight black hair and ebony-black eyes', emerging from the darkness of a bitter childhood to win his first battle at the age of fifteen.
This book is the first in a series which tell the story of the last defence of Britain against the invading Saxons, and of the old gods against 'the misery and sin and guilt' brought by missionary Christians.
The books are narrated by Arthur's foster brother Bedwyr, Prince of Gwynedd 'though I always preferred to be called the Fox, the name Arthur had given me when we were boys. I was the Fox and he was the Bear.' The Fox's love helps Arthur to survive the cruelty meted out by his father Uthyr.
The rhythmn and intensity of Bedwyr's words takes the reader directly into the torn heart of 5th century Britain, a place where lives can be lost in the flash of a Saxon sword, and where the constant possibility of death intensifies every feeling.
Bedwyr gives us the truth of his life - incredible courage, wild rebellion, the horrible intimacy of killing another person in battle, deep suffering, sexual passion and love. For me love is the power and attraction of this book, and the following books. The love between Arthur and Bedwyr,love between fellow warriors facing death on the battlefield, love between parent and child, love between doctor and patient,and sexual love unrestricted by gender.'Love those you are with while you live, and have care for those who judge you,for the judges do not have to live your life.'
L.A. Wilson is a visionary author and a poet. These are my favourite books ever!
The Fox and The Bear
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The Silurian: Book One; The Fox and The Bear
Hear the words of a young warrior, speaking with power of a time when men were committed to their warlords and wielding swords that break...
Set in the Dark Ages of Post-Roman Britain, The Silurian is the story of King Arthur told in a way that has never been done before. A first person narrative spoken in grim and honest detail of the lives of Arthur and his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox.
And it is Bedwyr who tells the story of his life with Arthur, and of his own struggles to know this powerful friend of his. A boy of sixteen, taken to his first great conflict, Bedwyr begins his story on the battlefield where Arthur lies missing after having won his first engagement to war against the invading Saxons, Hengist and Horsa.
This is the Fifth Century AD, a time of fierce honesty, as Bedwyr's own words speak it, the words of a young warrior who lives his life in the blood, guts, turmoil and love of an age that was both brutal and brilliant.
Hear the words of a young warrior, speaking with power of a time when men were committed to their warlords and wielding swords that break...
Set in the Dark Ages of Post-Roman Britain, The Silurian is the story of King Arthur told in a way that has never been done before. A first person narrative spoken in grim and honest detail of the lives of Arthur and his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox.
And it is Bedwyr who tells the story of his life with Arthur, and of his own struggles to know this powerful friend of his. A boy of sixteen, taken to his first great conflict, Bedwyr begins his story on the battlefield where Arthur lies missing after having won his first engagement to war against the invading Saxons, Hengist and Horsa.
This is the Fifth Century AD, a time of fierce honesty, as Bedwyr's own words speak it, the words of a young warrior who lives his life in the blood, guts, turmoil and love of an age that was both brutal and brilliant.
The Fox and The Bear
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The Silurian: Book One; The Fox and The Bear-
copyright: L.A. Wilson
Part 1
The Wonder-boy
Crows gathered in great flocks overhead as we searched the battlefield through the dead and dying. Some of the birds landed on bodies and I slashed my sword at them, trying to send them back from where they came. I watched them scream up again into the sky before I turned to look for my brothers.
All around me men were dying, their voices dying, already dead men, telling the crows they were ready to leave their bodies for the Otherworld. And as I waited for Cai and Medraut to reach me, as I watched them stepping over these dying men, I shook, and trembled. I was afraid, my heart wouldn't stop thrashing, and I thought I was crying.
This was a terrible battle, our first as new warriors to the field, and I had never seen anything like it before. The horror of it, and I stood waiting in terror-for Arthur was missing. He was out there somewhere amongst the bodies, and so far, we had not been able to find him. And so I stood where I was, shaking, frozen in fear; I could not go on if Arthur were dead, if he had been killed in this dreadful clash of arms, where the dead smelled like blood and not men. I swallowed hard and began walking my way towards Medraut and Cai. When I reached them, Medraut and me fell on each other and held on tight.I sobbed at him, "Where is he? Please don't say he's dead. I'm begging the Goddess of War! Medraut, please say he's not dead."
copyright: L.A. Wilson
Part 1
The Wonder-boy
Crows gathered in great flocks overhead as we searched the battlefield through the dead and dying. Some of the birds landed on bodies and I slashed my sword at them, trying to send them back from where they came. I watched them scream up again into the sky before I turned to look for my brothers.
All around me men were dying, their voices dying, already dead men, telling the crows they were ready to leave their bodies for the Otherworld. And as I waited for Cai and Medraut to reach me, as I watched them stepping over these dying men, I shook, and trembled. I was afraid, my heart wouldn't stop thrashing, and I thought I was crying.
This was a terrible battle, our first as new warriors to the field, and I had never seen anything like it before. The horror of it, and I stood waiting in terror-for Arthur was missing. He was out there somewhere amongst the bodies, and so far, we had not been able to find him. And so I stood where I was, shaking, frozen in fear; I could not go on if Arthur were dead, if he had been killed in this dreadful clash of arms, where the dead smelled like blood and not men. I swallowed hard and began walking my way towards Medraut and Cai. When I reached them, Medraut and me fell on each other and held on tight.I sobbed at him, "Where is he? Please don't say he's dead. I'm begging the Goddess of War! Medraut, please say he's not dead."
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