‘The baron’s men are coming, Brother Kent.’ The youth pointed with his blade out into the Warren Wood. ‘Will you fight beside us?’
Alann shrugged away from the old-stone. He looked once more across the ragged band before him, a family of sorts, pack rather than herd, a band of brothers who knew what lay at the core of him because they shared it, killers all. He looked down at the crimson weapons in his crimson hands and knew that moment of peace that happens when a thing surrenders to its nature.
‘I will.’ [GdM]
Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of whom is severely disabled. His day job is as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. At one point he was qualified to say ‘this isn’t rocket science… oh wait, it actually is’.
Between work and caring for his disabled child, Mark spends his time writing, plying computer games, tending an allotment, brewing beer, and avoiding DIY.
The Prince of Thorns is his first published novel. It is the beginning of a projected trilogy following the fortunes of the Honourus Jorg Ancrath.
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Table of Contents
From the Editor
Grimdark: It’s Here To Stay
The Neutral
An Interview With Joe Abercrombie
Review: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
The Woman I Used To Be
The Red Wraith
An Interview With Graham McNeill
Bad Seed