A Good Deliverance

´The most enthralling kind of historical fiction.´ HILARY MANTEL From the author of the Kingmaker series, an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and the creation of one of literature´s greatest stories. Warwick, 1468. One drowsy summer afternoon, Sir Thomas Malory - politician, courtier, outlaw, renowned author of Le Morte D´Arthur - is seized from his garden and dragged to Newgate Prison for reasons unknown. Shivering in his foul-smelling, filthy old cell, Malory mourns his misspent life as he awaits the execution bell. But when the locking bar lifts, he is greeted by a boy of about twelve winters: the gaoler´s son. Giddy with relief, Malory seizes the opportunity to recount his deeds to an audience. So begins a prison confession of a perilously exciting life full of sieges, battles and court intrigue. A Good Deliverance is the captivating tale of a man at odds with his past and the events that inspired him to write the first great work of prose fiction in English. Praise for the Kingmaker series: ´Enthralling, honest . . . the past, here, is imagined with ferocity, with hunger to engage.´ HILARY MANTEL ´Clements is so convincing on the detail of his characters´ lives that it is difficult to believe that he never walked in the brutal, messy world he conjures up on the page.´ THE TIMES ´Magnificent. A historical tour de force.´ BEN KANE