The Tyrant and the Squire

The Squire's Adventures #3

by Terry Jones

Deep in the Crusades, Tom has run away from home to discover what the noble life of a knight is really like. But now that his dreams have come true and he has been knighted, all is not as rosy as he'd hoped.Terry Jones is known for his work with Monty Python, his stories for children (which won him the Children's Book Award) and his medieval books. In The Tyrant and the Squire he uses his inimitable comic imagination and originality to combine all three of these elements and create a perfect story for children and grown-ups alike.The Tyrant and the Squire is a glorious adventure from one of the UK's beloved comic performers.

Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction

299 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

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Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle and American animator-filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Jones was largely responsible for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. He made his directorial debut with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthology series Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson's film Labyrinth and is credited with the screenplay, though little of his work actually remained in the final cut. Jones was a well-respected medieval historian, having written several books and presented television documentaries about the period, as well as a prolific children's author. In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from frontotemporal dementia.

Reviews

[Thomas Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Back and forth between "present-day" 1387, when the squire of the first two books is a grown knight, and a 1361 back story that's never finished. We don't find out what happened to Ann. Not as much fun as The Knight and the Squire and The Lady And The Squire.

[Peter T · Rating 4 out of 5]

I light read running 2 stories. The character interactions keep you in the story wondering how things will unfold.

All is not what it seems.

Every now and then a pythonesque passage of contorted logic made me smile.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Something fun to pass the time

I enjoyed this book but it is not a work of great literature or one I'm likely to read again,however I did enjoy it.

[Sharla]

I read the first two books in the series when I was younger and was waiting for years for this third one to come out!

So excited, I found out about this on accident.

[Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book ever. Factual but entertaining at the same time.