Loveday's Last Stand: Dan Jones's brilliant medieval novel Winchelsea, 1350: Former mercenary leader Loveday has built a new life for himself with a tavern, together with his beloved Gilda. But the southern English port city is the wrong place to find peace. Off the coast, Castilian pirates are attacking English ships. Loveday is drawn into the black market for the finest Flanders cloth – until the English king decides to attack the Castilian galleons in broad daylight, and Loveday has to fight his last battle. With Lionhearts, Dan Jones has written his best, most complex, and most gripping novel to date. He immerses us deeply in medieval England after the Great Plague. The harsh, quietly hopeful lives of ordinary people clash with the unashamedly reveling court in Windsor. The shadowy world of pirates and profiteers lures with easy but dirty money, while impoverished knights, on a timeless quest for love, glory, and gold, try to survive in a world that is slowly but surely coming to an end. Presiding over everything and everyone is the long-reigning King Edward III, who seems serenely true to his oft-quoted motto: "It is as it is." New product