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Jack Whyte


Born
in Johnstone, Renfrewshire,Scotland, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1939

Died
February 22, 2021

Website

Genre
Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Memoir


Jack Whyte is an author and writer born and raised in Scotland, but has been living in western Canada since 1967, and in Kelowna, British Columbia, since 1996.

Whyte's major work to date is the A Dream of Eagles series (as it is titled in Canada, but known as The Camulod Chronicles in the United States and elsewhere). This series of historical novels presents the tale of King Arthur set against the backdrop of Roman Britain. This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic (as in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone) to explain Arthur’s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition (with some artistic license) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Ro ...more

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Don’t Let Them Get You Down! UK Version of “Forest Laird.”

You might have noticed, after the past couple of months of isolation, that you can go a bit stir-crazy once you’ve exhausted all your avenues of self-distraction… Your  reserves of resilience start dwindling and your capacity for patience starts drying up. I reached that point a few days ago, having managed to keep myself active prior t

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Average rating: 4.16 · 59,098 ratings · 2,470 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors
The Skystone (Camulod Chron...
4.19 avg rating — 10,312 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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The Singing Sword (Camulod ...
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4.28 avg rating — 5,672 ratings — published 1994 — 45 editions
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Uther (Camulod Chronicles, #7)
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Series by Jack Whyte

The Skystone The Singing Sword The Eagles' Brood The Saxon Shore The Fort at River's Bend The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis Uther
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Knights of the Black and White Standard of Honor Order in Chaos
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“She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.”
― Jack Whyte, Uther
tags: attraction, love, passion
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“Their sudden intimacy was like the explosive combustion that engulfs and consumes a moth that has fluttered too close to a candle flame; a completely unexpected turn of events that took both of them unawares and swept them irresistibly up and out of themselves as it hurled them into each other’s arms.”
― Jack Whyte, Uther
tags: attraction, love, passion
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“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”
― Jack Whyte, Uther
tags: ignorance
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