In its northern fastness Britannia - despite all the benefits of the Pax Romana, with its technology and brutally rationalist philosophy - has kept its mysterious secrets, hidden deep in the wild forests that still cover much of the land.
As the Empire gathers its forces, three young people hold the future in their hands: the Roman Viti, now known as Coll, Angus the mechanic-turned-revolutionary and Mirana the student, now in touch with strange powers.
And as the cold, rational imperatives of Rome meet the wild magic of an older world, the Empire's dominion will at last be challenged.
The Burning Forest: the triumphant conclusion to the magical epic A Land Fit for Heroes.

The Burning Forest

Britannia is a land of forests - it is said a man can walk from the walls of Eboracum to the southern sea without leaving the shade of the greenwood - inhabited by wildcats, wolves and bears, as well as by the descendants of the folk who built Stonehenge. Traversing the forests, linking the Roman cities, are the straight Roman roads on which solar-powered aircars travel from the far north of Britain to expressways that link with London, Rome, Constantinople and beyond.
In this world Rome never fell to the Barbarians, the legions never left Britain and now, in the late twentieth century, Rome is the capital of a vast global civilisation.
Outside Eboracum, (or York as we know it), and dominating the city, is the Battle Dome, a vast hemisphere enclosing the artificial landscapes where the Games - as brutal, deadly and colourful as ever - are held. Here the destinies of three young people come together when a jealous feud forces them to flee the Dome and take refuge in the forest. There, Viti, Miranda, and Angus discover that the older Britain that has endured for two millennia, where the assumptions of rational Romans and city-dwellers no longer apply. And it is there they find they must learn new lessons about their world - if they are to survive.
This first volume of A Land Fit for Heroes is a superb, lyrical novel of cultures clashing in a wonderfully evoked alternate world, filled with magic, wonder and haunting sense of place.

Escape to the Wild Wood

Il est préférable d'avoir un droit détruit que de l'abandonner à cause de la peur.

Y a-t-il une sagesse dans l'innocence? Je pense qu'il y en a, mais il y a maintenant un culte d'hommes et de femmes ternes, pour qui le monde, et même la vie lui-même, est une sorte de marchandise. Ces critiques, ayant mangé, étudient maintenant leurs excréments pour voir ce qu'ils ont consommé. À ce sujet, ils fondent certaines conclusions. Leur ignorance est sans compromis. Plutôt que nous nous tenons devant l'inconnu, dans une observation très humble et silencieuse et attend pendant qu'elle se révèle.

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