Kevin Crossley-Holland has won accolades all over the world for The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing Places, the first two volumes in his Arthur trilogy. The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Tir na n-Og Prize and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He lives on the North Norfolk coast.
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Thousands of knights and foot soldiers are mustering in Venice for the launch of the fourth Crusade. Among them in young Arthur de Caldicot, soon to dubbed a knight. He is thrilled to be part of this huge gathering; but all too soon the crusade falls in... SEE MORE