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Now, perhaps most troubling of all, there are signs that the Norns are beginning to be active again in the North. Simon has not heard from his friend Prince Jiriki of the Sithi for years, in spite of hopes for closer ties between humans and the Fair Ones. The Thrithings men are attacking Nabbani settlers encroaching on their territory. The Duke of Nabban is being challenged by other lords of the Nabbani noble houses. The king of Hernystir subtly slights Simon and Miri on a state visit.

King Simon and Queen Miriamele have ruled wisely and well, but problems have started to crop up in the outlying provinces. Its been over 30 years since Ineluki the Storm King and the Norns were defeated. Well, both the worldbuilding and the storytelling are still wonderful, even if this first book didnt quite grab me the same way The Dragonbone Chair did. So when I heard that Tad Williams was finally going to write a follow up to his original Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, I was both excited and worriedexcited that I would get to revisit his world and its characters, worried that it wouldnt live up to the earlier series.

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We have been immensely privileged to publish the Bobby Dollar series and are absolutely delighted that one of the landmark fantasy series of the coming years will appear on our list.Decades ago, I bought a paperback copy of The Dragonbone Chair and fell in love with the story and the characters. So the news of this series seems like a beautiful homecoming to me and all the other fans of that classic series at Hodder. ‘The Memory Sorrow and Thorn books form some of my fondest memories of publishing and are as fresh and vibrant today as they were when I came across them in the 80s when I was lucky enough to be working on the Legend imprint which acquired them. Oliver Johnson, Associate Publisher at Hodder and Stoughton says: And I’ll do my absolute best to make all the kind responses I’ve already had justified.’ More than that, I feel I can do something that will stand up to the best books in our field. I believe I can now write a story worthy of those much-loved settings and characters, one that people who haven’t read the originals can enjoy, but which will of course mean more to those who know the original work. In fact, it sprang out of a conversation with wife Deborah Beale late last spring, and it’s been coming together for most of a year now, so we kept it secret pretty long. (That’s called “franchising” and I don’t like it much, personally.) I always said, “If a story ever comes to me that wants to be written, then yes, I’ll consider it.” And it finally did. ‘I haven’t gone back to my old worlds very often, precisely because I never wanted to be doing so simply to be doing it.

In this new trilogy, Williams journeys back to the magical land of Osten Ard and continues the story of beloved characters King Simon and Queen Miriamele, married now for thirty years, and introduces newcomer Prince Morgan, their heir apparent. Since the release of this classic trilogy, Williams has authored many critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and comic books, including the Otherland, Shadowmarch, and Bobby Dollar series.

This first installment and the subsequent books- Stone of Farewell and To Green Angel Tower-sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He took the fantasy community by storm in 1988 with the first novel in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, The Dragonbone Chair. Tad Williams has been one of the most respected names in speculative fiction since the release of his debut novel, Tailchaser’s Song, in 1985. The series will begin with The Witchwood Crown, continue with Empire of Grass, and conclude with The Navigator’s Children. Hodder and Stoughton have acquired three books by Tad Williams that are sequels to the New York Times bestselling sensation of the 1980s and 1990s, the Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, which inspired George R R Martin to write A Song of Ice and Fire and launched Christopher Paolini’s writing career.