The Table of Less Valued Knights

Phillips, Marie

ISBN 10: 0307359948 / ISBN 13: 9780307359940

Published by Random House Canada, 2014

About this Item

Very minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Small dent on top edge of front cover. Some darkening and foxing to edges of text block. Overall in excellent condition. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Inscribed by author on title page: "For Amanda, with honour and chivalry, Marie Phillips, 24th August 2014, Medieval Times". First Canadian edition with full number line.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1669495472516

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Table of Less Valued Knights
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307359948
• ISBN 13: 9780307359940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Women Authors/Artists

About this title

Synopsis

From Marie Phillips, author of the #1 national and international bestseller Gods Behaving Badly, comes a charming, funny story about a down-on-his-luck knight of Camelot, his eccentric band of misfits and their madcap quest to restore order to their lives, and the realm.
          Sir Humphrey du Val has had enough. Relegated to the Table of Less Valued Knights--Camelot's least prestigious spot, boringly rectangular in shape and with one leg shorter than the other so that it has to be propped up with a folded napkin to stop it from rocking--he has been banned by King Arthur from going on quests, and hasn't left the castle in 15 years. After a chance meeting with Elaine, a young maiden in search of her kidnapped fiancé, Sir Humphrey, along with his squire Conrad (an undersized giant) and Jemima (Conrad's elephant), sets off on a journey to find the distressed damsel's betrothed, hoping to restore himself to a place of honour at the Round Table.

          Meanwhile, Martha, an errant queen on the run from her new power-hungry husband, is in disguise and on a quest of her own to find her long-lost brother, the true ruler of her realm. Martha soon runs--literally--into Humphrey's eccentric group, who take the incognito queen captive, believing her to be a boy. As they journey through countryside, castles and villages, they gather unlikely friends and enemies along the way. While each member of the party secretly harbours their own ambitions for the quest, their collective success, and the fate of the realm, rests on their grudging cooperation and unexpectedly interconnected lives.

          The Princess Bride meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail in this funny, charming, and delightful tale about lesser-known heroes in Arthurian England.

About the Author

MARIE PHILLIPS was born in London in 1976. She is the author of the #1 national and international bestseller Gods Behaving Badly, the writer, with Robert Hudson, of the BBC Radio 4 series and book Warhorses of Letters and the co-author, as Vanessa Parody, of the erotic spoof Fifty Shelves of Grey. The author lives in London, UK.