Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Dec 19th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price good in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions (actually probably geo-restricted since it looks like Orion's Gateway imprint still has the UK rights), etc.):
Parsival or A Knight's Tale by Richard Monaco (
ISFDB), 1st in his Saga of Parsival vintage Arthurian fantasy quartet originally out from Macmillan in 1977. This is another one I missed during a previous sale which has now gone cheaper and will be purchasing shortly. Sometimes apathy does pay off.
Richard Monaco has taken a slice of the Arthurian legend and created a thoroughly modern-minded re-imagining of the classic tale. Colorful medieval settings blend with a hard-edged look at human foibles and a romantic story of love and loss is narrated with a lean, contemporary sensibility to form a new, but still ageless, adventure that anyone can enjoy.