Arthurian Magic

Seventeen-year-old Vivienne lives in a world of knights and ladies, corsets and absinthe, outlaw magic and alchemical machines. By day, she is lady-in-waiting to the future queen of Camelot - Guinevere. By night, she secretly toils away in the clock tower as apprentice to Merlin, the infamous recovering magic addict. Then she meets Marcus, below her in class, destined to become a knight, and just as forbidden as her apprenticeship with Merlin.

Sir Gadabout is a walking disaster. Voted the 'knight most likely to chop his own foot off in a fight', he shivers in his rusty armour when he has to face the brave Sir Lancelot in a joust.

Wirt is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he's in a school he can't escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities - for what use, he doesn’t know...to save his world or to destroy it.

The Sword in the Stone is the first novel in The Once and Future King, T. H. White's epic fantasy re-telling of the Arthurian legend. A cartoon adaptation by Walt Disney made it into an enduring favourite for the young.

Le roi de Bretagne vient de mourir. Afin d'accéder au trône, le dangereux seigneur Vertigier fait assassiner le prince Moine, héritier naturel. Pour se prémunir contre la vengeance des frères de Moine, Vertigier fait alors construire une tour, qui ne cesse de s'effondrer. On lui parle alors du jeune Merlin, un enfant un peu magicien. Les pouvoirs de ce dernier iront bien au-delà de ce que pense Vertigier.