Mark Lawrence
The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The Red Queen has set her players on the board...
Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the longed-for luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North may be home to his companion, the warrior Snorri ver Snagason, he is just as eager to leave. For the Viking is ready to challenge all of Hell to bring his wife and children back into the living world. He has Loki’s key – now all he needs is to find the door.
As all wait for the ice to unlock its jaws, the Dead King plots to claim what was so nearly his – the key to the underworld -- so that his dead subjects can rise and rule.
Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)
Mark Lawrence
Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.
From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.
Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.
Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)
Mark Lawrence
King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb.
Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote. And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader. Jorg plans to change that. He’s uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won’t hesitate to use it.
But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced—a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.
Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)
Mark Lawrence
The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign, she has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind nations, for higher stakes than land or gold. Her greatest weapon is The Silent Sister—unseen by most and unspoken of by all.
The Red Queen’s grandson, Prince Jalan Kendeth—drinker, gambler, seducer of women—is one who can see The Silent Sister. Tenth in line for the throne and content with his role as a minor royal, he pretends that the hideous crone is not there. But war is coming. Witnesses claim an undead army is on the march, and the Red Queen has called on her family to defend the realm. Jal thinks it’s all a rumor—nothing that will affect him—but he is wrong.
After escaping a death trap set by the Silent Sister, Jal finds his fate magically intertwined with a fierce Norse warrior. As the two undertake a journey across the Empire to undo the spell, encountering grave dangers, willing women, and an upstart prince named Jorg Ancrath along the way, Jalan gradually catches a glimmer of the truth: he and the Norseman are but pieces in a game, part of a series of moves in the long war—and the Red Queen controls the board.
The Wheel of Osheim (The Red Queen's War, #3)
Mark Lawrence
From the critically-acclaimed author of PRINCE OF FOOLS comes the third volume of the brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN’S WAR. All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued.For Jalan Kendeth getting out alive and with Loki’s Key is all that matters. The key can open any lock and possession of it may enable Jal to to return to the three Ws that have been the core of his debauched life: wine, women, and wagering.But the Wheel of Osheim is turning ever faster and it will crack the world unless it’s stopped. When the end of all things looms, and there’s nowhere to run, even the worst coward must find new answers
Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
Mark Lawrence
The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors...
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.
A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies.
Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.
Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.
Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The second novel in a brilliant fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.
Behind its walls, the Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the convent, Nona must choose which order to dedicate herself to—and whether her path will lead to a life of prayer and service or one of the blade and the fist.
All that stands between her and these choices are the pride of a thwarted assassin, the designs of a would-be empress wielding the Inquisition like a knife, and the vengeance of the empire's richest lord.
As the world narrows around her, and her enemies attack her through the system she is sworn to, Nona must find her own path despite the competing pulls of friendship, revenge, ambition, and loyalty.
And in all this only one thing is certain: there will be blood.
Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #3)
Mark Lawrence
Nona Grey's story reaches its conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor.
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman.
The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor's armies are in retreat.
Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona and her friends will have time to earn a nun's habit before war is on their doorstep.
Even a warrior like Nona cannot hope to turn the tide of war.
The shiphearts offer strength that she might use to protect those she loves, but it's a power that corrupts. A final battle is coming in which she will be torn between friends, unable to save them all. A battle in which her own demons will try to unmake her.
A battle in which hearts will be broken, lovers lost, thrones burned.
The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
Mark Lawrence
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown.
On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
Yaz is torn from the only life she’s ever known, away from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her days with, and has to carve out a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of difference and mystery and danger.
Yaz learns that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined. She learns that her weaknesses are another kind of strength. And she learns to challenge the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people.
Only when it’s darkest you can see the stars.
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)
Mark Lawrence
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.
The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change.
Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.
One Word Kill (Impossible Times, #1)
Mark Lawrence
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.
Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help—now.
He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.
Challenge accepted.
King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.
To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood…
The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.
A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. Every omen says he will. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. But King Jorg is not a good king.
Faced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But playing fair was never part of Jorg’s game plan.
The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.
Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he's never seen, Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.
And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira's old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.
Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it's also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.
The Book That Held Her Heart (The Library Trilogy, #3)
Mark Lawrence
The secret war that defines the Library has chosen its champions and set them on the board
The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, and the world seem certain to fail.
The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space, lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow, she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library’s war. The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. Can it hold at the end, when things fall apart? Can it bring them together against impossible odds? This is the last chapter, the final page. The end threatens and no one, not characters, readers, or even the author, will emerge unscathed.
Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)
Mark Lawrence
Two short stories associated with The Library Trilogy.
These are tangential and don't have to be fitted into the main narrative. You can read them at any time.
Returns (~8,000 words) - explores the journey of a book through many hands.
Characters featured from The Library Trilogy: Livira, Yute, Heeth Logaris, Wentworth
About Pain (~6,000 words) - explores a relationship with a book through the course of a life.
Characters featured from The Library Trilogy: Livira, Clovis, Volente
Overdue (The Library Trilogy, #1.5)
Mark Lawrence
This is a 12,000 word short story featuring Yute and Wentworth from The Book That Wouldn't Burn. It can be read as a standalone or between books 1 and 2 of The Library Trilogy. Yute and Wentworth investigate a strange connection between several bookshops.
Bound (Book of the Ancestor, #2.5)
Mark Lawrence
This is a 16,000 word short story, primarily featuring Nona, Ara, Kettle, Regol. It should be read between Grey Sister and Holy Sister. Again, I stress SHORT STORY.
Gunlaw
Mark Lawrence
Only on Wattpad
Technically ... a weird western. Gunslingers, hex witches, dogmen, minotaur, trains that run further than you can imagine ...
Mikeos Jones is a gunslinger, faster than thinking, part of the gunlaw, a man who can seldom afford the luxury of looking past the end of any given day.
Jenna Crossard is a hex-witch, but her ambitions are larger than spells and charms - the need to understand the world consumes her. They say the gunlaw keeps men safe from the endless horror of the sect, but to Jenna it's a cage and she wants out. If that means breaking open the world and killing a few gods ... so be it.
Road Brothers
Mark Lawrence
A volume of short stories by the bestselling author of THE BROKEN EMPIRE series, Mark Lawrence.
An extended version of the earlier collection of the same title - 50% longer.
This is a collection of fourteen stories of murder, mayhem, pathos, and philosophy, all set in the world of the Broken Empire.
Within these pages, you will find tales of men such as Red Kent, Sir Makin, Rike, Burlow and the Nuban, telling of their origins and the events that forged them. There is Jorg himself, striding the page as a child of six, as a teenage wanderer and as a young king. And then there is a tale about Prince Jalan Kendeth – liar, cheat, womaniser and coward.
To the new reader, welcome to a lawless world where wit and sword are the most useful weapons, and danger lurks as much in candle-lit palaces as in dark alleys and dense woodland. To those who have already journeyed with Jorg, we hope you will enjoy renewing old acquaintances with your favourite characters.
The Girl and the Mountain (Book of the Ice, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The second novel in the thrilling and epic new fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.
On the planet Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock.
For generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the fate of the ice tribes. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been questioned. But when ice triber Yaz challenged their authority, she was torn away from the only life she had ever known, and forced to find a new path for herself.
Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has a mountain to climb, and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power, her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south, across a vast emptiness of ice. Before the journey can even start, she has to find out what happened to the ones she loves and save those that can be saved.
Abeth holds its secrets close, but the stars shine brighter for Yaz and she means to unlock the truth.
Sœur écarlate (Le Livre des Anciens #1)
Mark Lawrence
Au couvent de la Mansuétude, on forme des jeunes filles à devenir des tueuses. Dans les veines de certaines d’entre elles coule le sang ancien, révélant des talents qui ne se manifestent plus que rarement depuis le jour où les Anciens ont accosté sur le rivage d’Abeth. Mais les maîtresses de la lame furtive ne mesurent pas tout à fait ce dont elles ont hérité à l’arrivée de Nona, une enfant de huit ans qui a déjà du sang sur les mains ; accusée de meurtre, la fillette s’est rendue coupable d’un acte plus odieux encore. Ayant échappé à la potence, elle est recherchée par de puissants ennemis aux mystérieux desseins. Au cours du long apprentissage de la voie de la lame et du poing, elle sera rattrapée par les secrets d’un passé hanté par la violence. Et tandis qu’un soleil mourant se lève sur un Empire en décrépitude, Nona devra affronter ses démons et devenir une redoutable guerrière si elle entend rester en vie...
Prinţul Spinilor (Imperiul Fărâmițat, #1)
Mark Lawrence
Święta siostra (Księga przodka, #3)
Mark Lawrence
Szara siostra (Book of the Ancestor, #2)
Mark Lawrence
Czerwona siostra (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
Mark Lawrence
Una palabra mortal (Impossible Times #1)
Mark Lawrence
Hermana roja (Primer libro del Ancestro, #1)
Mark Lawrence
En el convento de la Dulce Misericordia, las jóvenes aprenden a matar. Sus antiguas sangres de tribu se manifiestan en ellas dotándolas de extraordinarios talentos que las Hermanas les enseñan a perfeccionar. Pero ni siquiera las maestras de los Cuchillos y de las Sombras entienden lo que Nona Gris, una niña rescatada en el último momento de la horca por la abadesa, es realmente.
El pasado de Nona, manchado de sangre y violencia, la perseguirá hasta las puertas del mismísimo convento y desatará una encarnizada lucha entre las facciones enfrentadas en el seno de la Iglesia y del imperio que atraerá incluso la atención del propio emperador.
Bajo el sol moribundo de un imperio que se desmorona, Nona deberá aprender a dominar sus demonios interiores y, luego, lanzarlos contra quienes se interpongan en su camino.
The Girl and the Moon (Book of the Ice #3)
Mark Lawrence
Bolondok hercege
Mark Lawrence
During the Dance
Mark Lawrence
A short story (2000 words)
A story of love, loss, and the dance in between. Absolutely not a romance.
A short story about a child with a gift for seeing past the world.
La Trilogie de la Bibliothèque, T1 : Le livre qui refusait de brûler (French Edition)
Mark Lawrence
Sœur sainte (Le Livre des Anciens #3)
Mark Lawrence
La conclusion fracassante de l’histoire de Nona Grisaille
Les glaces rongent peu à peu l’Empire aux abois, menacé sur tous les fronts. Partout, les armées de l’empereur reculent.
Nona doit surmonter les derniers obstacles de son noviciat avant de choisir son ordre de prédilection. Mais il semble peu probable que ses alliées et elle puissent prendre l’habit avant que la guerre parvienne aux portes du couvent.
Déchirée entre ses loyautés, Nona se prépare à livrer son ultime bataille. Une bataille au cours de laquelle ses propres démons chercheront à causer sa perte. Une bataille de cœurs brisés, d’amours condamnées, de trônes incendiés.
Je m’appelle Nona Grisaille, et si vous me menacez, je ferai de votre vie une désolation.
Sœur grise (Le Livre des Anciens #2)
Mark Lawrence
Depuis des siècles, les novices du couvent de la Mansuétude affinent leurs talents à l'abri de ses murs. Avant de quitter le couvent, la jeune Nona doit choisir à quel ordre se consacrer... Mènera-t-elle une vie de prières au service de l'Ancêtre, ou optera-t-elle pour la voie du poing et de la lame?
Mais sa décision dépend d'une meurtrière arrogante dont elle a un jour arrêté la main et du seigneur le plus riche de l'Empire. Sans compter l'influence d'une femme qui convoite le trône impérial, et a fait de L'Inquisition son bras armé.
Alors qu'autour d'elle le monde semble rétrécir, Nona doit tracer son propre chemin, déchirée entre l'amitié, la vengeance, l'ambition et la loyauté.
Une seule certitude demeure : le sang coulera.
The New World (The Red Queen's War, #3.5)
Mark Lawrence
This is the novella that appeared in omnibus for Jalan and Snorri's trilogy.
It's a 25,000 word story that takes place after that trilogy and was the start of a sequel I was writing but put aside in favour of other projects.
It covers a sea voyage to the New World and is a pretty self-contained tale, re-introducing us to the delights of Jalan's cowardly womanising and Snorri's good hearted Viking vibe. If you recall how much Jalan hates boats ... you'll get a sense of what's to come.
I had great fun writing this one - I hope you'll enjoy the read.
Limited Wish (Impossible Times, #2)
Mark Lawrence
One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance.It’s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wants to be a regular student, but regular isn’t really an option for a boy-genius cancer survivor who’s already dabbled in time travel.When he crosses paths with a mysterious yet curiously familiar girl, Nick discovers that creases have appeared in the fabric of time, and that he is at the centre of the disruption. Only Nick can resolve this time paradox before the damage becomes catastrophic for both him and the future of the world. Time is running out—literally.Wrapped up with him in this potentially apocalyptic scenario are his ex-girlfriend, Mia, and fellow student Helen. Facing the world-ending chaos of a split in time, Nick must act fast and make the choice of a lifetime—or lifetimes.Game on.
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