Bliss & Blunder
Book description
'Exquisitely written and structurally bold ... a deeply impressive novel' Eva Dolan, author of This Is How It Ends
Selected for TLS Summer Books 2023
Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech…
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In Bliss and Blunder, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table return to England as a group of entitled, insecure techbros.
It might sound unlikely, but there’s true, literary magic at work as Gosling weaves England’s best-loved legends into the fabric of our present moment. Strange, fearless, and utterly convincing, there’s fun to be had in imagining (Sir Ga)Wayne drinking in the Green Knight or rummaging through Guinevere's Instagram account – but there’s anger, too.
Beneath the mythmaking, the story of Arthur is a story of power – the way it oozes and where it pools,…
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