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  • Published: 31 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448152421
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Black Horses For The King



An epic and entertaining historical adventure, from the award-winning creator of the Dragons of Pern series.

Lord Artos is on a historic quest - to search out the finest black horses ever known to man. He has vowed to drive the invading Saxons out of Britain, and he needs big, strong, powerful horses to carry his army into battle.

Galwyn, a young Roman-Celt, leaps at the chance to accompany the group, little guessing the adventure ahead of him - or the price he will have to pay for his loyalty...

  • Published: 31 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448152421
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series. Her website is www.pernhome.com.

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Praise for Black Horses For The King

A tuly epic historical tale . . . Entertaining and informative

The Times

Enthralling

The Times

Well-woritten and throughly researched . . . An entertaining adventure story with a real sense of the past

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