THE SERIES / A READER’S COMPANION
The Broken
Island
Britain before the familiar legend. A country of old walls, competing loyalties and things beneath the surface.
BEGIN WITH BOOK ONE
The Silent Summer
Britain, AD 505. Something waits among the stumps of a drowned forest. Arthur has forty horsemen, no crown, and ten weeks until the first hard frost.
A war-leader comes for a contract. A farm girl knows the shore well enough to see the change. People divided by older hostilities find themselves facing a shared danger.
01 / PEOPLE BEFORE LEGENDS
A name is
only a beginning.
Arthur is twenty-five, with forty horsemen and no crown. Cai is his foster-brother; Bedwyr his oldest friend. The companion introduces the people through the relationships and details with which the novel introduces them.
Meet the people ↗02 / THE OLDER MATERIAL
Three names.
A story behind each.
Griffin Pendry identifies the Welsh Triads as a major influence on the book. His reference edition is Rachel Bromwich’s fourth edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein.
The archive explores selected triadic traditions alongside the novel’s opening questions: reputation, knowledge, protection and what a landscape remembers. The source notes and the reading connections have their own places in each file.
Enter the Triads archive ↗CONTINUE YOUR READING