The King's Name
The peace of the nation of Tir Tanagiri has been bitterly won. But after years of fighting against rival kingdoms and Jarnish invaders, the warrier Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo had finally won it, through great strength of arms – and greater strength of vision. For Sulien was inspired by Urdo's dream of a kingdom ruled by justice, whose subjects all were equal under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others sense the seeds of a new tyranny.
Soon the land faces civil war, and Sulien must take up arms once more. Where once her enemies were invaders and usurpers, now they are former comrades and loved ones. As the conflict tears her country and her family apart, and lifelong friends meet their destinies, Sulien must fight harder and harder to hold on to Urdo's shining dream.
Continuing the epic begun in The King's Peace, this new novel in the saga of Tir Tanagiri brings the poignant and powerful story of Sulien ap Gwien to a rousing and deeply moving conclusion.
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Jo Walton
Jo Walton has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. A fourteenth, Poor Relations is due out early in 2018. She has also published three poetry collections and an essay collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She gets bored easily so she tends to write books that are different from each other. She also reads a lot, enjoys travel, talking about books, and eating great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year. She takes writing biographies of herself terribly seriously at all times.
Tir Tanagiri
The King's Peace and The King's Name are alternate world retellings of the story of King Arthur, woven in with references to The Tain, which is retold in The Prize in the Game.
The events of The Prize in the Game occur during The King's Peace. It is readable alone or separately, before or after the duology.
Tir Tanagiri consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
