England, 1848: A huge, civilisation-ending meteor, Astraea, is on a collision course with Earth. Outside of the British establishment no one knows… except a downtrodden young woman named Sarah Buckman. Desperate and alone, Sarah teams up with enigmatic Frenchman Jacques and a band of anarchists and criminals called the Lambeth Rats. Their plan is to tell the world of the coming disaster but sinister government agents – Hushers – dog their every step and plan to silence them for good.
Arthur Bright only ever dreamed of one thing – being a world-famous pop star. Thing is, just recently, there are certain elements of Arthur’s life that have started to get a bit… strange. A man calling himself Merlin, who Arthur considers quite mad, is following him around the country. Merlin is convinced Arthur is King Arthur and is keen he wakes up to this undeniable fact. Merlin even has a sword he believes is Excalibur, a group of men loyal to him – Knights of the Round Table – and an adult...
