New and unconventional writer, L.A. Wilson has self-published a volume of extraordinary works called "The Silurian."
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 by 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/reader on HarperCollins’ Authonomy.com
CONTACT L.A. WILSON AT thefox12@gmail.com
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eBook: FREE 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 graphic detail of the life of Arthur by his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox. 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.
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Print: $10.00 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 graphic detail of the life of Arthur by his closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr The Fox.
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.
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Print: $10.50 Download: $3.00 Arthur is now Supreme Commander of Armies in Britannia and just about to lead his first major engagement, north of Hadrian's Wall against the Picts; he is eighteen years old. His battles and victories will make Bedwyr the Fox a hero. Fighting with a crippled left arm, the Fox tells of his one-armed struggle to stay alive in his first Pictish battle; the greatest of his young life. Yet battle after battle wears him down, and fighting to know his own identity, he strives through Arthur's growing power to understand himself and who he loves. The Clan Bear return south, victorious, where again, Arthur destroys the Saxons in more intense battles - and yet Arthur the soldier, the fighter, becomes a lover when he meets his future wife ... and the Fox falls into darkness...
Book Two: The King of Battles opens the door on both their lives, setting the pace for all that will come...
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Print: $10.00 Download: $3.00 Here begins Arthur’s brilliant and annihilating South Saxon campaign; where he destroys the Saxons of the south coast weald in battle after battle. Yet does he push his cousin, Medraut, too far? Traitors begin to arise from within the ranks of his army as he takes his warriors to the limits of their endurance. With the success of his campaign, Arthur finds the time during a reign of peace to go home. To Siluria, where he was born, and there find the last living souls of his mother’s people; those who survive in the Bear Clan from their battles against Arthur’s father, Uthyr. And once home, the grief and the power that is his overwhelms him. Only Bedwyr can witness the suffering of his foster-brother and hold true at his side.
Book Three: Arthur's Army charges the two young warriors into the sinister hearts of traitors and the glory of their own power … power that brings consequences too dark to suffer…
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Print: $10.50 Download: $3.00 The hunt begins for Cynan Aurelius, Arthur’s greatest traitor, the murderer of his first wife, Rhonwen. And it is Bedwyr who risks his life to track the traitor into the land of the Picts. Arthur may be dying: ambushed outside of Luguvalos, where he married his new bride, and going home to Caer Cadwy, he is attacked and seriously wounded by Aurelius and the Caw Clan. Too ill to track the traitor himself, Arthur allows the Fox take on the task, bringing Medraut with him; both of them leading a small hunting party up into the snowbound highlands in winter ... here Bedwyr again throws himself into danger for Arthur's sake, capturing Aurelius alive to be returned for cold-blooded execution at Arthur’s own hand.
The Silurian, Book Four: Hunters and Killers brings Arthur and Bedwyr to their greatest suffering until the next horrendous battle…
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Print: $10.50 Download: $3.00 Taken from the Clan Bear, the Fox is forced into the army of Cadwallon Llawhir to fight for the Men of Gwynedd. Longhand needs Bedwyr’s help to destroy Arthur’s rise to Imperator of Britain, for only Bedwyr knows how Arthur fights and wins. Longhand takes the Fox prisoner in his stronghold; here Bedwyr is forced to marry into the Dynasty of Longhand and White-tooth. Here he is abused and beaten, yet rises above all things to somehow join again with Arthur – now called the Red Ravager; the leader who hammers the Angle, Colgrin, in battle after battle. Away from these battles, the Fox’s journey is no less painful, and the wait is arduous; he waits for the Silurian to come into Gwynedd and tear down the armies of Owen White-tooth, who will kill the Fox if his wishes are not carried out. White-tooth wants Bedwyr to kill Arthur for him...
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Print: $10.00 Download: $3.00 Freshly broken from his time in Cadwallon Longhand’s war-host, reunited with Arthur, it is time for the Fox to begin the long journey to regain his place in the Clan Bear – and go to war against the mighty Angle warlord, Colgrin.
Is Bedwyr fully recovered enough to survive this massive battle? What will he lose that will change him so deeply? For if Cadwallon Longhand failed to make Bedwyr his, what will come to him now to cause so much trauma?
The Silurian, Book Six: Bedwyr’s Loss, continues the intense and dangerous life of Prince Bedwyr the Fox, back at Arthur’s side and fighting for his very life.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $3.00 The Blacksmith's Hammer - after his terrible loss in battle, Bedwyr is healed in body, but not in mind. His confidence is broken, and he pushes Arthur too far in rebellion, and loses again. Until he meets the blacksmith who helps him mend his heart and soul, forging him anew, strong again, so strong, Bedwyr will now fight battles of his own, for his clan of the Stags. A battle that will once again pit him against Cadwallon Longhand, King of Gwynedd. What is it that Bedwyr has done so wrong that Longhand threatens him again? What has he done so wrong to force Arthur to throw him out of the Clan Bear? Winning battles, finding love, and almost getting killed at the hands of the Romani churchmen, The Blacksmith's Hammer is the place where Bedwyr triumphs through his broken-hearted turmoil to become again the Fox...
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Print: $12.00 Download: $3.00 Here begins Arthur's greatest battle and Britain's greatest victory over the Saxon and Angle alliance as they seek to wipe Arthur's forces from the land. The Angles, led by Arthur's old enemy, the Atheling Colgrin, begin their invasion at Badon Hill, where Colgrin and his force of eight thousand Saxon war-dogs face the Bear's two thousand in their last and devastating conflict.
Will Arthur stand up to the unbelievable pressures of his command? Or is this the end of his sense of duty to Britain?
The final astounding book in The Silurian series, Facing the Bear, will take Arthur, Bedwyr and Medraut to the summit of power, then level them as they take their last steps to Afalon when Arthur finally elevates Medraut to King of the Lothians.
From the Snake's king-making, Arthur leaves the Fox behind as he disappears into the outer world, opening the way for Bedwyr's own saga, the journey to The Last Man.
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Print: $8.50 Download: $2.00 This is the story of Bedwyr's years without Arthur. Will the Fox endure? What happens to him, and to Arthur on his Armorican campaign?
The Last Man is Bedwyr, and this is his story in the wake of Arthur leaving Britain to fight for his Armorican brothers across the water.
The Last Man is the series that takes Arthur and Bedwyr to their final battlefield: Camlann, where Arthur dies...and Bedwyr is left alone to cast Arthur's sword, Escalibor, into the water...into the lake...
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