The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

by Bernard Cornwell

When you get to the Otherworld, boy’ – he had turned back to me – ‘you won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.’

‘And since when, Derfel, was a throne handed from father to son? It was never thus in the old days! The best man of the tribe took the power, and that is how it should be today.’