The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

The novel " Dragon under the Hill " by former newsreader Gordon Honeycombe is set on Holy Island

They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.

The Vehmgericht also appear as antagonists in The Strong Arm, an 1899 novel set in the Holy Roman Empire by British-Canadian author Robert Barr.

The Childermass, after a traditional name for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, is the opening novel of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy The Human Age.

Charles Williams, a prominent member of the 20th-century literary group the Inklings, made Prester John a messianic protector of the Holy Grail in his 1930 novel War in Heaven.

Godfrey also plays a key role in the book The Iron Lance by Stephen R. Lawhead, and in an historical novel Godfrey de Bouillon, Defender of the Holy Sepulchre, by Tom Tozer.

This resulted in him being mentioned in the 1982 pseudohistory book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, and Dan Brown's 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code.

In 1427 he was summoned to Rome to stand trial on charges of heresy himself for his promotion of the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, something of a novel devotion.

He described a visit to the Holy Land in three volumes, The Desert, Jerusalem, and Galilee, ( 1895 – 1896 ), and wrote a novel, Ramuntcho ( 1897 ), a story of contraband runners in the Basque province, which is one of his best writings.

* Holy Wood ( novel ), an unpublished novel by Marilyn Manson

The movie The Dreamers of Bernardo Bertolucci, based on the novel The Holy Innocents of Gilbert Adair tells the story of an American university student in Paris during the protests.

The Holy Innocents ( novel ).

The science fiction novel Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling deals with a future society, in which life expectancy has been expanded to more than two centuries by means of medicine and technology ( see transhumanism ) to the effect that the gerontocrats wield almost all capital and political power.

Bedivere appears as main character in the novel Grailblazers by Tom Holt although he is often referred to by his companions ( other Arthurian knights ) as Bedders during their search for the Holy Grail.

He is hired by Prince James of Albany ( in the GK3 graphic novel ) to protect his infant son, Charlie, from a group of vampires called " The Night Visitors ", later revealed to be the " Adepts of the Holy Blood ".

* Georgi Iliev, AUBG graduate, Class of 1996, author of The Life and Death of Mr. Iliev ( 2006 ) and Holy Fool: Dogtown ( 2010 ), recipient of the 2010 Book of the Year award in Bulgaria for his novel Holy Fool.

The novel was adapted as four 45-minute radio plays from 17 – 20 September 2007 on BBC Radio 4, having been chosen as a popular ' Book of the Week ' on the same station some years earlier.

In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week ( NBC ) (" The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon "), an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way.

The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère ( The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry ), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.

Poe's story " Three Sundays in a Week " may have inspired Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 ).

* Estelle Green, a character in Diana Wynne Jones ' fantasy novel Witch Week

Faulks ' 2009 novel, A Week in December, takes place, in the seven days leading up to Christmas in December 2007.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders () is a 1970 Czechoslovakian surrealist film directed by Jaromil Jireš and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval.

: This is an article on the 1945 novel, for the 1970 film see Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( film ).

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( or Valerie a týden divů ) is a novel by surrealist Czech writer Vítězslav Nezval, first published in 1945.

In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week ( NBC ) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way.

The novel depicts the friendship between Alexander II and Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar.

The novel depicts the " Norse invasion of Scotland " ( 1262 – 1263, part of the Scottish – Norwegian War ) and the Battle of Largs.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.

Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and William Shatner's novel set in the Shatnerverse The Ashes of Eden ( 1996 ) depicts the Enterprise-A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

* Outside the genre of science fiction, 1994's Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas ( based on the Michael Crichton's novel ) depicts a VR headset being used as a navigation device for a prototype computer file system.

The novel Queen of the Slayers ( 2005 ) by Nancy Holder offers a potential follow-up to the television series ; set after season seven, it depicts Buffy living in Italy with the morally ambiguous Immortal.

" Early in the novel, Amerigo Bonasera declares “ I believe in America .” The novel then depicts a nation where Mafia and big business are two sides of the same coin: both are corrupt, tell the truth selectively, and do exactly as they wish.

The novel depicts a world where genetic selection for increased health, longevity, and intelligence has become so widespread that the unmodified ' control naturals ' are a carefully managed ( and protected ) minority.

Rosemary Sutcliff's 1976 historical fiction novel Blood Feud depicts Basil II from the point of view of a member of his recently created Varangian Guard.

A novel about nineteenth-century Canadian farmers by Louis Hemon, entitled Maria Chapdelaine, depicts pea soup as common farmhouse fare:

* Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles depicts Martians as a refined and artistic race of golden-skinned beings who closely resemble humans.

* Rebecca Bloomer's novel ' Unearthed ' ( 2011 ), the first in a series, depicts a futuristic human colony on Mars.

The novel mainly depicts Northumberland in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII of England.

In his later novel Anathem, Stephenson more explicitly depicts this idea.

The novel Ella Minnow Pea depicts a fictional country set off of the South Carolina coast that idealizes the " Quick Brown Fox " pangram and its inventor.

The novel depicts the captivity of James I in the Kingdom of England, with the main events taking place in 1421-1422.