Joe Abercrombie

Happy Monday! It might be a bit (ok, a lot) gloomy here in London, but we’ve got something exciting to share with you. Earlier this month Joe Abercrombie was at Gollancz Towers and we asked (politely demanded) that we film him for the upcoming publication of Red Country (out where all good books are sold on the 18th October).

So, as a special Monday treat we’ve got an exclusive extract of Joe reading from Red Country, but that’s not all! Watch the film and listen carefully to the question Joe asks at the end. Then send the answer to the question to: competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: RED COUNTRY by 23.59 on the 15th October 2012 for your chance to win a limited edition signed proof copy of Red Country. Visit our site for our terms and conditions.

See, we said we had something exciting to share.

Good luck!

Gollancz is delighted to be able to bring you the trailer for Joe Abercrombie’s  brilliant new adventure RED COUNTRY which will be available where all good books are sold on the 18th October 2012! To celebrate the launch of the trailer we are giving five lucky people a chance to win an early reading copy! To enter, watch the trailer and send your answer to this question: What is the name of the outlaw on the wanted poster? to: competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: RED COUNTRY. All entries must be recieved by 11.59pm on the 3rd September 2012. Good luck!

About RED COUNTRY:

They burned her home.

They stole her brother and sister.

But vengeance is following.

Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb’s buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust. . .

The past never stays buried . . .