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George R. R. Martin A Feast for Crows

Book 4 of A Song of Ice and Fire

Published 2nd  May 2006, PB £12.99

May 2006 sees the paperback release of the long-awaited continuation of the most ambitious and imaginative epic fantasy since The Lord of the Rings. A Feast For Crows went straight to number one in the US and number 9 in the UK bestseller lists in hardback in 2005 . Now in paperback for the first time, George R R Martin’s epic new work is not to be missed.

Last year, not one week at HarperCollins passed without the obligatory bookshop calling in. ‘I have a customer here asking for the next George R R Martin …When is it out?’ One bookseller said that there are actually people out there who would kill for this book.  In October 2005, after a long six years the wait was over: The fantasy writer of the superlatives delivered book 4 of the most ambitious fantasy series around and is made publishing history, as his books stormed the bestseller lists across the world.

No wonder it took him that long: George R R Martin is juggling with 8000 years of history, nine dynasties, and thirty-odd main characters, some of them who he occasionally kills off, just after the reader got to identify with them. Card and board games have been invented, a gallery of figures and paintings has come to life and there are currently 37 fansites around the author and the novels. There is also a quest to track down characters from this bestselling series hidden across the Internet. George R R Martin is not an author, he is a publishing phenomenon.

The Plot

A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic, intrigue and terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne, with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding, so called for the massacre of the guests, their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crow’s Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn.                                                                   No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell and the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead. And the last of the Targaryens, Daenerys Stormborn, will bring fire and blood to King’s Landing when her young dragons reach their terrifying maturity. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula, now a smoking, demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea.
Against a backdrop of alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel … and the coldest hearts.

About the author

George R.R. Martin is the author of eleven bestselling novels, including the highly acclaimed ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ series. Born in New Jersey in 1948, New Jersey, Martin began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighbourhood children for pennies. In Highschool he became a comic book fan and collector, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines. In the next years, Martin studied Journalism, directed chess tournaments, worked as a teacher and wrote part time. In 1979, Martin became a full-time writer and, seven years later, moved on to Hollywood, by signing on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television. During the next decade, he became Co-

supervising producer for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. He was also Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93. Martin currently lives in Santa Fe New Mexico.

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