Last Knight
The first novel written by Bosco and Jordan was Last Knight, based on the myths and legends of King Arthur. The story begins at Arthur’s final battle at Camlann, but instead of the death of the King and his Knights of the Round Table, as in the traditional stories, the fight is ended prematurely and the majority of those engaged in battle survive. It is an older Arthur that returns to a broken Camelot, seeking a way to unite his kingdom once again, while he yet has sufficient strength left to do it.
Having both grown up reading tales of knights and chivalry, it was an easy choice for subject matter when Bosco and Jordan first decided to collaborate creatively. Rather than retelling familiar stories, they wanted to use them as the foundation for a new tale about Camelot in its final days. A classic adventure story with a large cast of characters, the pair have described this as “Camelot not as it was, but as it should have been”.
Never
The second novel by Bosco and Jordan was Never, a fantasy tale of a young boy and his imaginary friend having adventures on a far away island. Or is it? The childhood dreams of fun and frivolity soon give way to the darkness of nightmare as the very world reshapes itself into new forms around the boy. Who is real and who is imaginary? And in the end does it really matter either way?
For their second novel Bosco and Jordan were interested in using the adventure genre and concepts of heroes and villains to explore the nature of reality and the power of the human imagination. It continues many of the ideas previously explored in Last Knight, but pushes them in a much more surreal direction.
Everyman
The third novel by Bosco and Jordan was Everyman, the story of one man who is reborn time and again throughout history, used by strange otherworldly powers to judge the right of humanity to exist. From the morality plays of medieval England to the gaol cells of revolutionary France, from the cells of an enlightenment prison to the battlefields of Europe, the story crosses times and experiences as the human condition desperately seeks meaning in a world of chaos and pain.
The most surreal of their three novels, Everyman nonetheless manages to succeed in distilling the core themes that had run through the first two books by Bosco and Jordan. The dichotomy of fathers and sons, heroes and villains, life and death are each tackled throughout the pages of this strange story.
