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Joe Abercrombie

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Robert Kirby

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Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, on the last day of 1974. He was educated at the stiflingly all-boy Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he spent much of his time playing computer games, rolling dice, and drawing maps of places that don't exist. He went on to Manchester University to study Psychology. The dice and the maps stopped, but the computer games continued. Having long dreamed of single-handedly redefining the fantasy genre, he started to write an epic trilogy based around the misadventures of thinking man's barbarian Logen Ninefingers. The result was pompous toss, and swiftly abandoned. Joe now lives in North London with his wife, Lou, and his daughter, Grace. He splits his time between film editing and writing edgy yet humorous fantasy novels... Joe's books have been sold in over 20 countries, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Germany. Earlier this year he signed a 6 figure 4 book deal with Gollanz. Joe's BEST SERVED COLD won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award for best cover art. He is currently working on his latest book A RED COUNTRY (working title) due for publication early Summer 2012. THE FIRST LAW TRILOGY (2006-2008) Publishers: US: Pyr/Prometheus \| Bulgarian: Colibri \| Czech: Polaris \| Croatian: Algoritam \| Danish: Klim \| Dutch: MYNX \| Finnish: Kirjava \| French: J’ai Lu \| German: Heyne \| Greek: Anubis \| Hungarian: Könyvmolyképzo Kiado \| Polish: ISA \| Portuguese: Gailivro \| Romanian: Nemira \| Russian: Eksmo \| Serbian: Laguna \| Spanish: Alianza \| Swedish: Damm \| Turkish: Artemis BEST SERVED COLD (2009) Publishers: US: Orbit \| Czech: Polaris \| German: Heyne \| Spain: Alianza \| Turkish: Artemis THE HEROES (2011) Publishers: US: Orbit \| German: Heyne THE HEROES follows three principal characters, in a cast of more than 50, embroiled in a bloody conflict between the Northmen and the Union to take strategically worthless land around the village of Osrung. Seen-it-all veteran Curnden Craw is an honest man sickened by warfare; psychopath Bremer dan Gorst was dishonoured in battle and seeks redemption; while treacherous Prince Calder lusts after power and will do anything to gain it. Over three days the battle ebbs and flows, and Abercrombie graphically illustrates the pointlessness of a conflict in which each combatant assumes that right is on his side.The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it's imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant. THE GUARDIAN THE HEROES is out now.	http://www.joeabercrombie.com

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Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, on the last day of 1974. He was educated at the stiflingly all-boy Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he spent much of his time playing computer games, rolling dice, and drawing maps of places that don't exist. He went on to Manchester University to study Psychology. The dice and the maps stopped, but the computer games continued. Having long dreamed of single-handedly redefining the fantasy genre, he started to write an epic trilogy based around the misadventures of thinking man's barbarian Logen Ninefingers. The result was pompous toss, and swiftly abandoned.

Joe now lives in North London with his wife, Lou, and his daughter, Grace. He splits his time between film editing and writing edgy yet humorous fantasy novels...

Joe's books have been sold in over 20 countries, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Germany. Earlier this year he signed a 6 figure 4 book deal with Gollanz.

Joe's BEST SERVED COLD won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award for best cover art. He is currently working on his latest book A RED COUNTRY (working title) due for publication early Summer 2012.

BEST SERVED COLD (2009) Publishers: US: Orbit | Czech: Polaris | German: Heyne | Spain: Alianza | Turkish: Artemis

THE HEROES (2011) Publishers: US: Orbit | German: Heyne

THE HEROES follows three principal characters, in a cast of more than 50, embroiled in a bloody conflict between the Northmen and the Union to take strategically worthless land around the village of Osrung. Seen-it-all veteran Curnden Craw is an honest man sickened by warfare; psychopath Bremer dan Gorst was dishonoured in battle and seeks redemption; while treacherous Prince Calder lusts after power and will do anything to gain it. Over three days the battle ebbs and flows, and Abercrombie graphically illustrates the pointlessness of a conflict in which each combatant assumes that right is on his side.The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it's imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant. THE GUARDIAN

THE HEROES is out now.

http://www.joeabercrombie.com

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The Heroes
Best Served Cold
The Blade Itself: Book 1 of The First Law
Before They are Hanged: Book 2 of The First Law
Last Argument Of Kings: Book 3 of The First Law
The Blade Itself: Book 1 of The First Law
Best Served Cold Audio CD

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THE HEROES 2011 Gollanz	Joe Abercrombie is the most successful fantasy novelist of his generation, with a remarkable, cynical and powerful voice cutting through the cliches of the fantasy genre to create something compelling and exceptionally commercial. With a strong core readership already behind him, each new novel breaks new ground - the epic fantasy quest in The First Law Trilogy, revenge fantasy with the hit BEST SERVED COLD, and now, with THE HEROES, venturing into the dangerous and topical territory of war. Set over three days, in the same world as BEST SERVED COLD, the action is compelling and fast, the battlefield is muddy, bloody and horrible and Joe Abercrombie uses his fantasy setting to explore violence and ambition, strategy and the truism that no plan survives contact with enemy. The characters are the stars, as ever, and the message is dark: when it comes to war, there are no heroes . . .
THE HEROES PAPERBACK 2012 Gollancz
BEST SERVED COLD 2009 Gollancz	Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white.
LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS: BOOK 3 OF THE FIRST LAW 2008 Gollancz	The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but its going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and theres only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. Its past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war.
BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED: BOOK 2 OF THE FIRST LAW 2007 Gollancz	Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces.
THE BLADE ITSELF: BOOK 1 OF THE FIRST LAW 2007 Gollancz	Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.