The Silver Hand

Master creator of realms beyond imagination, Stephen Lawhead, re-opens the door into the fantastical reality of Albion - a world intricately entwined with our own yet separate, pulsing with the raw energy and vivid colour of Celtic myth come to life.

Enter Lewis Gillies, an Oxford student whose search for a missing friend leads him through into this other world and unimagined discoveries about life, good and evil, and his own identity and destiny. Here, the words of the prophetess: "Before Albion is one, the Hero Feat must be performed and Silver Hand must reign." foretell a coming king.

But Lewis, now Albion's renowned champion, Llew, has a more immediate concern: retrieving the treacherous Siawn-Hy who has eluded him in the doorway between worlds and who now, lusting for power, has allied himself with the usurper Meldron.

Forced to flee for their lives, Llew and the bard, Tegid, both horribly wounded, find refuge deep in Albion's heartland. Under their leadership, a wilderness citadel arises. In the heat of battle, the miraculous reign of Silver Hand begins.

If you like Tolkien, Celtic mythology, high fantasy, believable fiction written in poetic and gritty prose - or any other fantasy/fiction for that matter - you will definitely love the Albion series.