The Table Of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others so that it has to be propped up with a folded napkin doesn't do quests ...
As if Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett: snorts and chortles plus elegant eyebrow-raising… Bold literary and historical misadventures, told with a twist and a lightness of touch-- Ian Sansom * Guardian *
The reader can enjoy the same level of affectionate detail that the Pythons brought to Monty Python and the Holy Grail… Phillips clearly delights in the world of [King Arthur] and…subverts fantasy motif in refreshing and absurd ways… Very good fun. -- Leonora Craig Cohen * Literary Review *
The Table of Less Valued Knights infects Arthurian legend with a brio not seen since Monty Python and the Holy Grail * New Statesman *
The Table of Less Valued Knights infects Arthurian legend with a brio not seen since Monty Python and the Holy Grail * New Statesman *
Very funny… It’s a real joy to read a novel that makes you snort out loud with laughter. * Skinny *
The reader can enjoy the same level of affectionate detail that the Pythons brought to Monty Python and the Holy Grail… Phillips clearly delights in the world of [King Arthur] and…subverts fantasy motif in refreshing and absurd ways… Very good fun. -- Leonora Craig Cohen * Literary Review *
The Table of Less Valued Knights infects Arthurian legend with a brio not seen since Monty Python and the Holy Grail * New Statesman *
The Table of Less Valued Knights infects Arthurian legend with a brio not seen since Monty Python and the Holy Grail * New Statesman *
Very funny… It’s a real joy to read a novel that makes you snort out loud with laughter. * Skinny *
Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. Her first novel, Gods Behaving Badly, was published in 2007. Widely acclaimed, it was translated into over fifteen languages and made into a feature film. She is also the writer, with fellow novelist Robert Hudson, of the BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099555872 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099555875 |
| Title | The Table Of Less Valued Knights |
| Author | Marie Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK) |
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