by Gillian Bradshaw · Marion von Schröder Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783547714999
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«Das Königreich des Sommers» is Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian fantasy novel, published by Marion von Schröder Verlag in hardback (330 pages, German).
Gwalchmai, Arthur's loyal and feared warrior, commits a grave offence against the woman he loves, and she disappears from his life. With his servant Rhys, he seeks her in the Kingdom of Summer, where Arthur sends him. There he discovers that his mother, the witch queen Morgawse, harbours an evil power and that the secrets of his past may deny him peace.
Second novel of the Down the Long Wind trilogy, originally published in English as Kingdom of Summer in 1981. This 1983 German edition includes a translation by Ilka Paradis.
For readers of Arthurian fantasy and historical fiction interested in the character of Gawain reimagined as Gwalchmai.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
