Long before King Arthur and the Round Table, in the land of Lyonesse, a sword stood plunged in a stone…

Once, Lyonesse was green and pleasant. Now the land is sinking, and the sea batters its walls. Lyonesse has become a place of poison and danger, and its people live in an uneasy truce with the monsters that inhabit its bottomless Wells.

Idris Limpet is an ordinary boy, until the day he is rescued from a terrible death and finds himself thrown into an astonishing new adventure. Can it be that it is his destiny to save Lyonesse? And can one boy and one girl stand in the way of a colossal evil with its roots sunk deep in ages of wickedness?

‘Quietly superb prose and a memorable, unassuming hero make this Arthurian-flavoured world fresh and beautiful even when it’s bitterly ugly… Llewellyn writes with a gentle hand, neither minimizing nor bombarding readers with moral interpretation...
A rich and unpretentious gem’ Starred Kirkus Review

‘Sam Llewellyn is a brilliant writer. This man is destined to be big…
This book has magic and adventure and myth and environmentalism and intrigue and shady government affairs and war and strong families and laughter and sorrow AND a strong female character…seek it out’ www.kidliterate.com

Monsters of Lyonesse: The Well Between the Worlds
A drowning land holds a dark secret. Lyonesse is sinking. Every year the water gets a bit higher, and the walls of the land must be raised to keep it out. A fisherman's son, Idris Limpet is forced to leave his seaside home and make a new life amid the secrets and whispers of a dangerous city. He will train the monsters that inhabit the watery world under the wells of Lyonesse - and learn that his wits, his courage and his friends could be all that stand between him and certain death.

ISBN: 978 1407 10240 5. Paperback. £6.99