Tag: Joe Abercrombie

Chaos is not easy to control, but it is simple to incite, and it has an advantage: it is difficult for a rabble to organise and overthrow those

The squabbles in the north subdued and the strife in Valbeck quelled, the trouble with peace is that the petty disputes overshadowed by the threat of war or

It’s been four years since Joe Abercrombie last published a novel, Half a War, the concluding volume of his Shattered Sea trilogy, and other than the short story

It was in his series of linked novels collectively known as the First Law where Joe Abercrombie made his name, yet he has not visited those lands in

The waves smash mercilessly against the ravaged lands which line the Shattered Sea, and while anger and envy overflow, trust and forgiveness are in short supply in the

Hild “Thorn” Bathu is the first woman in a generation to be accepted into training for the king’s raid, but as ever, pain, bad timing and misfortune plague

The wind is harsh in Thorlby, capital of Gettland on the western shore of the Shattered Sea, and the news carried on the wings of the messenger birds

Novelist Joe Abercrombie burst on the British fantasy scene with his trilogy The First Law, a grim and bloody epic of characters equally damaged and damaging. His reputation

Like the characters in his novels, Joe Abercrombie is not a man to be taken lightly. Launching his writing career in 2006 with The Blade Itself, his First