Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights Camelot's least prestigious table with one leg shorter than the others so that it has to be propped up with a folded napkin doesn't do quests ... until he meets Elaine a damsel in distress with a secret to hide.

Meanwhile Queen Martha of Puddock is on the run from an arranged marriage to the odious Prince Edwin of Tuft. But an encounter with the Locum of the Lake (standing in for the full-time Lady) leaves her with a quest of her own: to find her missing brother long believed dead.

The two quests collide introducing a host of Arthurian misfits including a freakishly short giant a twelve-year-old crone an amorous unicorn and a magic sword with a mind of her own.

With Gods Behaving Badly Marie Phillips showed that she has a rare gift for comedy giving the Greek Gods an ingenious contemporary twist. In The Table of Less Valued Knights it's Camelot's turn and you'll never see a knight in shining armour in the same way again.