Heretic: The Grail QuestThe eagerly anticipated follow up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a

Hervey must leave behind his love

But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty

is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work

The writing moves from horror to humour with terrifying ease

His mission is dramatically thrown off course by a series of grisly murders and a spirited and beautiful young woman

She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company

there were now three men on horseback

and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part

A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro

the question for Thomas and Sophie is whether or not he should be the one to speak out

pragmatic - and reluctantly heroic - hero

failed actor Timothy Salt is not optimistic