Forthcoming Books: 2013 edition

[emr]

Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities, Tyrant series #5 (I think) by Christian Cameron January 1st 2013

Demetrius, son of Alexander's former comrade, Antigonus One-Eye, was perhaps the most dashing and charismatic of the Successors, the Macedonian generals who fought a bitter war for the spoils of Alexander's short-lived empire. Still smarting from his epic defeat at the hands of Ptolemy, Demetrius has his eye on one of the richest prizes in the ancient world - the naval superpower of Rhodes. But the Rhodians know that defeat will mean annihilation, and Demetrius's campagin will entail five separate naval battles over several years before he can begin to breach the city walls - leading him to employ an array of fantastic war machines: ancient super-weapons like his gigantic lens of polished bronze used to focus on the city's wooden ramparts and set them ablaze. If she is to survive against such a merciless assault, Rhodes will need the help of every ally she can muster - including the newly crowned King of the Bosporus, Satyrus, and his fiery twin, Melitta...

[SonjaMarie]

Geez, I can't even think that far in the future, LOL!

SM

[Divia]

We are all gonna be gone by 2012 anyway.

[Vanessa]

LOL. Better try and get all my books read, then!

[Berengaria]

Originally Posted by Divia

We are all gonna be gone by 2012 anyway.

Well, yeah, it's my birthday the day before, so I'll be able to party right up to Doomsday!

[Tanzanite]

Shadow of the Wolf by Tim Hall. UK release February 7, 2013.

So many tales have already been told of Robin Hood. Already he's the hero with a thousand faces. First, forget everything you've heard. Robin was no prince, and he was no dispossessed lord; he didn't fight in the Crusades; he never gave a penny to the poor.

His real name wasn't even Robin Hood. Marian called him that as a kind of joke. Sir Robin of the Hood. A name Robin would cling to when he was losing grip of everything else. Mind you, one thing you've heard is true. He was blind.

No, that's not right. Let me put that another way. Truer to say, Robin Hood didn't see with his eyes. In fact he was the only one who saw clearly in this place of illusion and lies.

The first book of the trilogy, Shadow of the Wolf, is set in Sherwood Forest in medieval England. In it, Tim Hall presents a Robin Hood more heroic and horrific than ever before: a fourteen-year-old, blind, ruthless assassin and elemental creature of the forest, hell-bent on a mission to avenge his father's death and the brutal abduction of his soul mate Marian. It is a breathtakingly original - and utterly compelling - retelling of the Robin Hood legend.

[DanielAWillis]

Originally Posted by Berengaria

Well, yeah, it's my birthday the day before, so I'll be able to party right up to Doomsday!

I'll be partying rigth along with you (but from a distance). I am going to be at the Mayan temple at appointed hour on 21 Dec. It's part of a "not the end of the world" cruise I am taking.

[Vanessa]

Shadow the Wolf looks a little creepy!

[Berengaria]

Originally Posted by DanielAWillis

I'll be partying rigth along with you (but from a distance). I am going to be at the Mayan temple at appointed hour on 21 Dec. It's part of a "not the end of the world" cruise I am taking.

How was your trip?

[Tanzanite]

Bosworth: The Rise of the Tudors by Christopher Skidmore. Non-fiction. UK release May 13, 2013.

The Battle of Bosworth has a legendary significance in British history. The last battle fought on English soil until the seventeenth century, and the last occasion that an English king would die on the battlefield, it was also the battle that brought an end to the dynasty of Plantagenet kings who had ruled since 1154, and heralded the birth of the Tudor dynasty. Yet the story of Bosworth is more than just the result of a few hours bloodshed on the battlefield. It is the culmination of the rise of the House of Tudor, a remarkable story which began fifty years earlier, when a page of Henry V's ran off with his widow.

It is the tale of the turbulent life of Henry Tudor, who, against the odds, rose from relatively humble origins and exile in France to overthrow the deeply unpopular Richard III. When this inexperienced young soldier landed in England in 1485 with 2,000 French mercenaries and a handful Lancastrian lords and knights, few could have predicted his campaign would end in with him seizing the throne of England. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished sources as well as new research that has only recently come to light, Chris Skidmore will disentangle fact from legend and relate the compelling story of the battle in full. BOSWORTH will also set the battle against the background of the storms of the Wars of the Roses, and paint a vivid portrait of this time of immense political ferment and social change.

ETA: woops - guess this one belongs on the 2013 thread if the mods can move it...