"This book is a beautiful artefact in its own right ... a total Gawain experience for the contemporary reader"
Shiny New Books
Send a signed copy of Michael's acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to a friend or loved one. This beautifully illustrated hardback book comes with a special Christmas card for you to enclose with your gift.
FREE P&P to UK customers.
About the book...
It is New Year at Camelot and a mysterious green knight appears at King Arthur’s court. Challenging the knights of the Round Table to a Christmas game, he offers his splendid axe as a prize to whoever is brave enough to behead him with just one strike. The condition is that his challenger must seek him out in a year and a day to have the deed returned. Sir Gawain accepts and decapitates the stranger, only to see him pick up his head, walk out of the hall and ride away on his horse. Now Gawain must complete his part of the bargain, search for his foe and confront what seems his doom…
The book is beautifully illustrated by throughout with detailed recreations of the illuminated lettering in the original manuscript and the author’s own linocut prints, each meticulously researched for contemporary accuracy. This is an exciting new edition that will appeal both to students of the Gawain-poet and the general reader alike.
ISBN-10: 1783525606
ISBN-13: 978-1783525607
William and the Werewolf (William of Palerne)
Michael Smith is currently working on an illustrated translation of William and the Werewolf, one of the earliest examples of the Alliterative Revival of the fourteenth century. If you woudl like to support this book (and have your name in the back as a patron), click here
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Book - signed with Christmas Card
Postage and Packing is FREE to UK customers. Overseas customers, air mail costs added in the checkout,
Because this book is signed, I regret that returns and refunds are not possible.