AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Right,finally got round to making this list January Dark Forge by Miles Cameron Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler Dragon Heart by Peter Higgins Vultures by Chuck Wendig The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden Reckoning of Fallen Gods by R. A. Salvatore Soulkeeper by David Dalglish Tides of the Titans by Thoraiya Dyer A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery by Curtis Craddock The Iron Codex by David Mack Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow Through Fiery Trials by David Weber In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire The Hanged Man by K. D. Edwards The Fall by Tracy Townsend The Heirs of Babylon by Glen Cook - Night Shade Books reissue February Kellanved's Reach by Ian C. Esslemont The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie Dark Age by Pierce Brown The Blackest Heart by Brian Lee Durfee Master of Sorrows by Justin Travis Call The Sun's Domain by Rebecca Levene The Light of All That Falls by James Islington No Way by S. J. Morden Firstborn by Michelle West Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Gates of Stone by Angus Macallan In the Land of the Everliving by Stephen R. Lawhead Miss Violet and the Great War by Leanna Renee Hieber The Revenant Express by George Mann Endgames by L. E. Modesitt Jr. The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons Strife's Bane by Evie Manieri Sisters of the Fire by Kim Wilkins The Beast's Heart: A Novel of Beauty and the Beast by Leife Shallcross The Ingenious by Darius Hinks Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock March The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh The True Queen by Zen Cho Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs Wild Country by Anne Bishop A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Hearts of Ice by David Hair The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire A Parliament of Bodies by Marshall Ryan Maresca The Perfect Assassin by K. A. Doore Creation Machine by Andrew Bannister Titanshade by Dan Stout Fray by Rowenna Miller Sanctuary by V.V. James The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton The Orphanage of Gods by Helena Coggan April Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence A Time of Blood by John Gwynne The War Within by Stephen Donaldson Beneath the Twisted Trees by Bradley Beaulieu Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson The Spider by Leo Carew Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes Twilight of the Gods by Scott Oden Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse Nest of the Monarch by Kay Kenyon Inspection by Josh Malerman Fire Season by Stephen Blackmoore The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton Atlas Alone by Emma Newman Emily Eternal by M. G. Wheaton Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle by George R. R. Martin Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu) Knight: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War by Timothy Zahn Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly The Sword and the Dagger by Robert Cochran No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson The Master of Dreams by Mike Resnick Finder by Suzanne Palmer A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford Broken Shadow by Jaine Fenn Pale Kings by Micah Yongo Winds of Marque by Bennett R. Coles The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling May A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay Empire of Grass by Tad Williams The War Ship by Neal Asher The Last Road by K. V. Johansen Dragonslayer by Duncan M. Hamilton The Shattered Realm of Ardor Benn by Tyler Whitesides Electric Forest by Tanith Lee Theater of Spies by S. M. Stirling Five Unicorn Flush by TJ Berry Time's Demon by D B Jackson Shadowblade by Anna Kashina The True Bastards by Jonathan French The Last Astronaut by David Wellington June Crowfall by Ed McDonald Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan Kingdoms of the Cursed by Greg Keyes Knight of Stars by Tom Lloyd The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard The Bone Ships by RJ Barker Lost Acre by Andrew Caldecott July The Wolf's Call: Raven's Blade #1 by Anthony Ryan In Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio Death Goddess Dance by Levi Black Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe The Fifth Ward: Good Company by Dale Lucas August The Burning White by Brent Weeks Where Gods Fear to Go by Angus Watson A Blight of Blackwings by Kevin Hearne September World Engines by Stephen Baxter The God Game by Danny Tobey October November December Tentative publication dates (Amazon): New Joe Abercrombie Novel - April 16, 2019 New K. J. Parker Novel - April 9, 2019 The Broken Heavens by Kameron Hurley - Dec 3, 2019 Unknown publication dates: The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch Endlords by J. V. Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 Two interesting sounding books from non- English writers,one is a fantasy debut from Iceland to be published by Gollancz and the other is a Swedish historical crime novel set in 18th-century Stockholm.Details below. Quote Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson will publish in April 2019. Gollancz is publishing a "genre-defining" fantasy duology by Icelandic debut author Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson. On frost-covered streets beneath the northern lights, a half-caste, guerrilla artist and an outcast, drug-addicted sorcerer will start a revolution.A strikingly original Icelandic debut set in a strangely familiar alternate Reykjavik where wild and industrialised magic meet.Perfect for fans of contemporary fantasy in the style of Lev Grossman's The Magicians or China Mieville's The City & The City Sæmundur the Mad, addict and sorcerer, has been expelled from the magical university, Svartiskóli, and can no longer study galdur, an esoteric source of magic. Obsessed with proving his peers wrong, he will stop at nothing to gain absolute power and knowledge, especially of that which is long forbidden. Garún is an outcast: half-human, half-huldufólk, her very existence is a violation of dimensional boundaries, the ultimate taboo. A militant revolutionary and graffiti artist, recklessly dismissive of the status quo, she will do anything to achieve a just society, including spark a revolution. Even if she has to do it alone. This is a tale of revolution set in a twisted version of Reykjavik fuelled by industrialised magic and populated by humans, interdimensional exiles, otherworldly creatures, psychoactive graffiti and demonic familiars. Shadows of the Short Days is set in a "strangely familiar" yet "alternate" Reykjavík where wild and industrialised magic meet. Billed as perfect for fans of China Miéville, Lev Grossman and Paulo Bacigalupi, it tells a tale of "damaged" characters forging a revolution against an oppressive government. The book, the first in a new saga, was picked up from the slush pile by assistant editor Craig Leyenaar. He acquired world rights to two novels from Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maas Literary Agency. Author Dan Vilhjálmsson, who lives in Reykjavík, writes in both Icelandic and English, translating back and forth as necessary, and is the founder and editor of SFF magazine, Furðusögur (Weird Stories). He is also the vocalist and lyricist for an Icelandic black metal band called Carpe Noctem. He said: "Signing with Gollancz and Jennifer Jackson has been an incredible turn of events for me. When I sent the manuscript in to the open submission I had absolutely zero expectations – it’s been a daydream come true. I am humbled and honoured to have signed not one but two books of the Hrimland Saga with Gollancz. I look forward to working with Craig and the incredible team at Gollancz on these weird Icelandic novels." https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadows-Short-Days-Alexander-Vilhjálmsson/dp/1473224101/ https://www.gollancz.co.uk/2018/02/13/slush-pile-success-assistant-editor-snatches-brilliant-icelandic-fantasy-debut-open-submissions/ . Quote The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag - Feb U.K./March U.S A gripping debut novel immersed in historical noir. In this breathtakingly bold, intricately constructed novel set in 18th century Stockholm, a dying man searches among the city’s teeming streets, dark corners, and intriguing inhabitants to unmask a ruthless murderer—perfect for fans of Perfume and The Alienist. Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793. Over a year has passed since the death of Gustav III of Sweden and the nation is ruled with an iron fist by lord of the realm Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm. In the wake of the old king's passing, trust has turned into a sparse commodity. Paranoia and whispered conspiracies can be found at every corner. A mutilated body is discovered in the malodorous waters of Fatburen Lake on the island of Södermalm. Missing both its legs and arms, the body has been disfigured beyond recognition. Though Cecil Winge of the Stockholm Police is himself marked for an early death by consumption, he takes on the case of solving the mystery of the Fatburen corpse. Cecil soon finds himself entangled in a web of dark secrets and boundless evil, a web with threads reaching all the way to the upper echelons of Stockholm society. In his debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag paints a compelling portrait of late 18th century Stockholm, the frightful yet fascinating reality lurking behind the powdered and painted veneer of the era. https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473682122 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wolf-and-the-Watchman/Niklas-Natt-och-Dag/9781501196775 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Isn't Neal Stephenson due to publish a new book in 2019, called 'Fall'? It's meant to be a retelling of Milton's Paradise Lost, and was scheduled to be published originally in Q3 of 2017, but was pushed back for reasons unknown. (Borough Press is meant to be publishing it, if memory serves.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 TIAMAT’S WRATH Coming in Spring 2019! Quote Fans of The Expanse: We know that you have been looking forward to TIAMAT’S WRATH this December. But because we are now entering the home stretch of this amazing series and we all want to make sure we get it right, we have asked the authors to give our editorial and sales teams some extra time to prepare for the launch. The new publication date will be in March 2019. We know you’re going to love this next chapter, and thank you for your patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 The long-postponed publication of Ember in the Ashes, the sequel to Antoine Rouaud's 2013 The Path of Anger: Book I of The Book And the Sword series (La Voie de la Colere - Le Livre et l'Epee: I), is supposed to happen at the end of this year - start of next year. I've really enjoyed The Path of Anger -- it had so many twists and turns, and it was fun to identify the bits and pieces that went into his world building, including the Holy Roman Empire and the French Revolution. The dragons and other sorts of made-up creatures didn't work so well, or at least not so far. However, at least almost to the end, the first volume is a terrific revenge tale, like those Jacobean blood and thunder plays. This appeals quite a bit to my current slant on political life right now, so there's that. There are understandable echoes in places of The Count of Monte Cristo too. One expects -- hopes? -- the author has learned a great deal about writing in the intervening 5 years that he didn't know when writing his first novel. Or, maybe, he's just another Patrick Rothfuss? Great initial success paralyzes, sometimes, it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James US publication date: Feb 05, 2019 UK publication date: Feb 21, 2019 Quote 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' - Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on myth, fantasy and history to imagine a wholly new world, in which a legendary Tracker is hired to find a missing child... Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say - as well as the eye of a wolf. Engaged to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared three years before, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a rag-tag group that comes together to search for the boy. Full of striking characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard, a witch and the giant-sized Ogo, this unlikely band follow the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers, set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breath-taking adventure that's also an ambitious and involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both. Children of Ruin, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s Children of Time! Due to be published by Orbit in North America (May 2019) and Tor in the UK (May 2019). Quote Long ago, Earth’s terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered. Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Pleased to hear James's fantasy novel is finally ready. I'm really curious to see how his style translates to fantasy and hope it doesn't change for the genre. The fact it's a spin on African mythology and history which I know little about should also add to this being something unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 8 hours ago, red snow said: Pleased to hear James's fantasy novel is finally ready. I'm really curious to see how his style translates to fantasy and hope it doesn't change for the genre. The fact it's a spin on African mythology and history which I know little about should also add to this being something unique. I was just going to post here today that this is one of the fantasy novels of next year that I am really looking forrward to giving a try. The synopsis is intriguing. Great title as well. The other big one I'm interested in in February is Raven's Tower by Leckie, mainly because of the acclaim for her SF work. It's been kept quiet so far what that one will be about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 10 hours ago, Calibandar said: I was just going to post here today that this is one of the fantasy novels of next year that I am really looking forrward to giving a try. The synopsis is intriguing. Great title as well. The other big one I'm interested in in February is Raven's Tower by Leckie, mainly because of the acclaim for her SF work. It's been kept quiet so far what that one will be about. It's definitely the fantasy book of next year I'm most excited about even if some of my regular favourites have stuff coming out I sort of know what to expect. Thanks for pointing Raven's tower out. I've only read the first of her ancillary books and while it didn't click for me that was more to do with the genre than the writing/ideas. Again, I'm very intrigued at what she might conjure up in a fantasy setting. Basically I think I'm becoming a sucker for authors from other genres tackling fantasy especially when they have already demonstrated their writing talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughn Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 On 8/24/2018 at 9:40 PM, IlyaP said: Isn't Neal Stephenson due to publish a new book in 2019, called 'Fall'? It's meant to be a retelling of Milton's Paradise Lost, and was scheduled to be published originally in Q3 of 2017, but was pushed back for reasons unknown. (Borough Press is meant to be publishing it, if memory serves.) Can't wait for his Mary Jane take on Eve, written exactly as if she was a man and with 10k pages of footnotes on the evolutionary development of the apple and snakes. To be fair, I didn't read the book after Readme, because it sounded as terrible as Readme was. Maybe he's pulled out of his encyclopedic tailspin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 16 hours ago, Vaughn said: Can't wait for his Mary Jane take on Eve, written exactly as if she was a man and with 10k pages of footnotes on the evolutionary development of the apple and snakes. To be fair, I didn't read the book after Readme, because it sounded as terrible as Readme was. Maybe he's pulled out of his encyclopedic tailspin. That's quite a funny take on his style. I enjoy his books but there's little escaping that's how he approaches them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Cover reveal for Zen Cho’s The True Queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Cage of Souls by the ever prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, set for an April release date: Quote The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapur, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapur is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will treat with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 On 9/27/2018 at 12:53 PM, Calibandar said: Cage of Souls by the ever prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, set for an April release date: Sometimes I think this author writes in his sleep or has been stockpiling work from the age of 15. It's almost at the point where he needs to slow down as frankly I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of material he has out that I've yet to read. I don't think I've ever complained about an author I like writing too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Yeah his output is insane. Best work by him for me is last year's Dogs of War. So next year he has this one out, Cage of Souls, listed at 600 pages, plus Children of Ruin, sequel to Children of Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 5 hours ago, Calibandar said: Yeah his output is insane. Best work by him for me is last year's Dogs of War. So next year he has this one out, Cage of Souls, listed at 600 pages, plus Children of Ruin, sequel to Children of Time. Is that the mech warrior one? I think I have the ebook for that. It's good the quality does not appear to drop and he seems at home with SF as fantasy although that was clear from his "sea war" book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 No that one is called Ironclad, it's a short novel, Dogs of War is a full size novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Calibandar said: No that one is called Ironclad, it's a short novel, Dogs of War is a full size novel. This is what happens when he has so many books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Longfoot Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Long time no see. Been a while since I posted, but wanted to share something which I don't think was posted yet. So, I had recently seen that K.J. Parker's upcoming book had a synopsis posted on Amazon and now that it has a title too, wanted to share: It's called Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and is set to release on April 09, 2019 Quote The powerful new novel from World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker and the start of a sweeping new epic fantasy series. A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. Their only chance rests with a colonel of engineers - a despised outsider, a genius, a master of military and political strategy with the wrong color skin. He is the City's only hope. But nobody, rich or poor, wants to take orders from a jumped-up Milkface. Saving the City from itself might be more difficult than surviving the coming siege. Link here- https://www.amazon.com/Sixteen-Ways-Defend-Walled-City/dp/0316270792/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538417663&sr=1-1&keywords=k.j.+parker Sounds interesting and that's a seemingly humorous title even though the premise and Parker's other things dealing with sieges suggests something grim. Not sure what I think about the reverse racism aspect of the premise. It's been pretty common in Parker's novels and stories for the aristocratic/Imperial group to have darker skin than outsiders/main characters, but it's always been more of an implicit thing than part of the premise. So, curious where he's going with this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 On 8/25/2018 at 4:40 AM, IlyaP said: Isn't Neal Stephenson due to publish a new book in 2019, called 'Fall'? Here is the blurb for Stephenson's Fall, or Dodge in Hell: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Dodge-Hell-Neal-Stephenson/dp/006245871X/ The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds. In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived. In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem... Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. 880 pages in hardcover. Mike Shackle's debut novel We Are the Dead (Book One of The Last War Trilogy) will be published by Gollancz in July 2019: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-Dead-Last-War-Trilogy/dp/1473225205/ The war is over. The bad guys won. Now it's time to fight back. For generations, the people of Jia - a land where magic has long since faded from the world, clinging on in only a few rare individuals - have been protected from the northern Egril hordes by their warrior caste, but their enemy has not been idle. They have rediscovered magic and use it to launch an overwhelming surprise attack. An invasion has begun. And in moments, the war is over. Resistance is quashed. Kings and city leaders are barricaded in their homes awaiting banishment and execution, the warriors are massacred, and a helpless people submit to the brutality of Egril rule. Jia's heroes have failed it. They are all gone. And yet... there is still hope. Soon the fate of the kingdom will fall into the hands of a schoolboy terrorist, a crippled Shulka warrior and his wheelchair bound son, a single mother desperate enough to do anything she can to protect her baby... and Tinnstra, disgraced daughter of the Shulka's greatest leader, who now lies dead by Egril hands. A brand new epic fantasy: gritty and modern featuring a unique ensemble of characters who will lead a revolution against their overlords. PERFECT FOR readers of Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson, and Peter V. Brett David Wragg's debut novel Articles of Faith will be published by HarperVoyager in August 2019: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Articles-Faith-Book/dp/0008331413/ Vedren Chel holds every oath of service sacred – except his own. His late father’s sermons on the nobility of sworn duty left him ill-prepared for the grind of service to his indolent step-uncle. Chel’s wretched oath has dragged him from home and family across a war-splintered kingdom; he craves an escape from obligation. When foreign invaders heave into port and threaten obliteration, Chel finds opportunity in the chaos – a bargain with a stranded prince. Escort the prince to safety, and in return: release from his oath, a chance to go home. A solemn duty at last. But a bargain with a prince is never a simple thing. Greater forces are at play than Chel realises, and heavy wheels are turning. Assassins and mercenaries lurk in every shadow, many bearing smiles as sharp as their knives. Chel must brave ambush and betrayal, treasonous schemes and lethal terrain – and keep his prince alive. As the conspiracy at the kingdom’s dark heart turns its gaze towards him, Chel must decide just how much he will sacrifice in duty’s name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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