Jack Whyte





Jack Whyte

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

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

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 Roman departure from Britain...more


Average rating: 4.10 · 22,259 ratings · 957 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
The Skystone (Camulod Chron...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 3,982 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions
The Singing Sword (Camulod ...
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 2,777 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
The Eagles' Brood (Camulod ...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 2,190 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
The Saxon Shore (Camulod Ch...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,048 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions
The Fort at River's Bend (C...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 1,696 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions
Knights of the Black and Wh...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
Uther (Camulod Chronicles, #7)
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
The Eagle (Camulod Chronicl...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
The Lance Thrower (Camulod ...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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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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3.865336658354115 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 401 ratings

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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

“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

“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”
Jack Whyte, Uther

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