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Nona ist kein gewöhnliches Kind: Sie hat auffällig schwarze Augen und schwarze Haare und kann sich mit übernatürlicher Geschwindigkeit bewegen. Und sie ist erst acht, als sie ihren ersten Mord begeht. Das Mädchen steht schon im Schatten des Galgens, als sie von der Äbtissin des Klosters zur barmherzigen Gnade gerettet wird, wo sie man sie zur Kriegerin ausbildet. Doch der Mann, den sie getötet hat, gehörte einer der mächtigsten Familien des Reiches an - die alles daransetzt, sich an ihr und den Schwestern des Konvents zu rächen. Allerdings ist Nona alles andere als leichte Beute.

Als Novizin der Mystischen Klasse wird Nona in die tieferen Geheimnisse des Universums eingeweiht. Allerdings gelten im Konvent zur süßen Gnade harsche Regeln, und als dann auch noch die Inquisition den Arm nach dem Kloster ausstreckt, muss Nona fliehen. Ihr auf den Fersen sitzt nicht nur eine ehrgeizige Assassine, sondern obendrein der ebenso einflussreiche wie rachsüchtige Thuran Tacsis. Doch Nona wird in noch größere Konflikte hineingerissen: Während Sherzal, die rücksichtslose Schwester des Kaisers, nach der Macht greift, schmiedet Äbtissin Glas ihre eigenen Ränke, die das Reich in seinen Grundfesten erschüttern.

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.

In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz's people call it the Pit of the Missing, and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would. 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.

The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat, and a womaniser; and 10th in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axe man, and dragged against his will to the icy north.

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes 10 years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder - guilty of worse.

Lawrence brings the Broken Empire series to its devastating conclusion. The path to the throne is broken - only the broken can walk it. The world is cracked and time has run through, leaving us clutching at the end days. These are the days that have waited for us all our lives. These are my days. I will stand before the Hundred and they will listen. I will take the throne no matter who stands against me, living or dead, and if I must be the last emperor then I will make of it such an ending. This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God.

From the critically acclaimed author of Prince of Fools comes the second volume of the brilliant new epic fantasy series The Red Queen's War. "If you like dark, you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through, and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous." (Robin Hobb) 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.

A volume of short stories by the best-selling author of The Broken Empire series, Mark Lawrence. This is a collection of 14 stories of murder, mayhem, pathos, and philosophy, all set in the world of the Broken Empire. Within this audiobook, 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.

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.

Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a powerful new epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging. 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.

Devenu roi de sept nations, Jorg Ancrath convoite désormais l'Empire Brisé tout entier... or, si le jeune souverain veut atteindre son but suprême, ce n'est pas par l'épée mais par le vote qu'il gagnera. Personne n'a jamais réussi cet exploit, et l'Empire reste sans dirigeant depuis des siècles. Mais Jorg a découvert les secrets du savoir oublié et compte bien s'en servir. Il n'avait pas compté avec un nouvel adversaire de taille : le Roi Mort, un nécromancien encore plus craint que Jorg lui-même.

L'Empire Brisé est agité par des affrontements sans fin. Sur le long chemin de sa quête de vengeance, l'honoré Jorg Ancrath a découvert les responsables de cette éternelle guerre, et il s'est mis en tête de les défier. Or une armée de six nations coalisées, forte de vingt mille soldats, marche sur le château de Jorg. Les bons rois savent ployer l'échine devant une défaite annoncée, ne serait-ce que pour protéger leurs sujets et leurs terres. Jorg n'est pas un bon roi.

Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. Livira has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never noticed them. That’s about to change.

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war.

La suite de la nouvelle captivante série de Mark Lawrence, nommée au prix Goodreads du Meilleur roman de Fantasy ! Sur les territoires blancs d'Abeth, tout n'est plus que glace à perte de vue. À l'exception du Roc Noir. Cela fait des générations que, du haut de leur montagne, les prêtres du Dieu Caché commandent le destin des tribus par la magie et le fer. Leur autorité n'avait jamais été contestée. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de Yaz, enfant de la glace arrachée à la seule vie qu'elle connaissait pour tracer son propre chemin.

Les étoiles ne brillent jamais plus fort que dans les ténèbres. Au coeur de la glace, sur les flancs du Roc Noir, existe un puits dans lequel on précipite les enfants trop différents. On le nomme le Gouffre des Absents, une menace qui a toujours plané sur la vie de Yaz. Car, pour endurer les mois de nuit, l'air presque figé par le gel, il faut appartenir à une espèce à part. Et Yaz n'en fait pas partie.

The Sounds of Crime is an exclusive collection of five brand new short stories by some of the best crimewriters around. Using the theme of 'audio', this unique collection features brand new stories by Lawrence Block, Peter James, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham and Christopher Fowler.

When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation.