Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, studied psychology at Manchester University, and worked as an editor of documentaries and live music before his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006. Two further instalments of the First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings, followed, along with three standalone books set in the same world: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country. He has also written the Shattered Sea trilogy for young adults, the Age of Madness trilogy for old adults, and Sharp Ends, a collection of short stories. He lives in Bath, England, with his wife and three children.
Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically
energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out
*Joe Hill*
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 worldweary wisdom about the weaknesses of the
human race. Brilliant
*Guardian*
[The Heroes is a] blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection ofa
three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First
Law Trilogy but stands very well alone . . . Abercrombie never
glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror ofwar,
nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular
heroes
*Publishers Weekly*
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