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Mark Lawrence (born January 28, 1966) is an American-British novelist who wrote The Broken Empire trilogy. In 2014, Lawrence won the David Gemmell Award for Fantasy for best novel for Emperor of Thorns. He operates the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Biography Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom. Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. Since 2015, Lawrence has operated the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, a literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. Reception Lawrence's first work, Prince of Thorns, was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2011", a David Gemmell Morningstar Award Finalist in 2012 and short listed for the Prix Imaginales (Roman étranger) in 2013. Prince of Thorns was also one of Barnes & Noble's "Best Fantasy Releases of 2011". His second book, King of Thorns was again a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2012." King of Thorns was also one of Barnes & Noble's "Best Fantasy Releases of 2012", and a David Gemmell Legend Award Finalist in 2013. The final book in The Broken Empire trilogy, Emperor of Thorns, was published in August 2013 and was on The Sunday Times Bestseller list. It also made the final of the Goodreads Choice Award (2013) and won the David Gemmell Legend Award (2014). His second trilogy, The Red Queen's War, is set in the same world as The Broken Empire trilogy. Prince of Fools was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2014" in an expanded category. It was also a David Gemmell Legend Award Finalist in 2015. The Liar's Key was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2015", and won Lawrence a second David Gemmell Legend Award (2016). The Wheel of Osheim was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2016". Lawrence's books have been in the Goodreads Choice Award category for "Best Fantasy" 11 times and in the "Best Science Fiction" category once (One Word Kill). In addition, he was the artist for Wheelmouse and All the Crazy Robots, which was included in the award's "Best Picturebook" category. In April 2015, Harper Voyager acquired the rights for his next fantasy trilogy – The Red Sister Trilogy – for a six-figure sum from Ian Drury at Sheil Land. This trilogy is not set in the world of the Broken Empire. His work is translated into 28 languages and he has sold around two million books worldwide. Bibliography The Broken Empire Prince of Thorns (August 2011) King of Thorns (August 2012) Emperor of Thorns (August 2013) A short story entitled Sleeping Beauty set in the Broken Empire was released in April 2014. The Red Queen's War Prince of Fools (June 2014) The Liar's Key (June 2015) The Wheel of Osheim (June 2016) Book of the Ancestor trilogy Red Sister (April 2017) Grey Sister (April 2018) Holy Sister (April 2019) Impossible Times One Word Kill (May 2019) Limited Wish (June 2019) Dispel Illusion (November 2019) The Book of the Ice The Girl and the Stars (April 2020) The Girl and the Mountain (April 2021) The Girl and the Moon (April 2022) The Library Trilogy The Book That Wouldn't Burn (May 2023) The Book That Broke the World (April 9. 2024) Short and standalone works Dark Tide (2012) released in Fading Light Anthology Quick (2013) released in Triumph Over Tragedy Anthology "Select Mode" (2013) released in Unfettered "Bad Seed" (2014) released in Grimdark Magazine issue No. 1 During the Dance" (2014) A free standalone short story that is available on his Website "A Rescue" (2015) Available in Legends II: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell "The Dream-Taker's Apprentice" (2015) First published in Fantasy Faction's 2015 anthology and one of three winners to be included in the Remastered Words 2017 audio anthology, eventually titled "Fabled Journey II" "Christmas Tale" - A free standalone short story that is available on his website "Locked In" - A free standalone short story that is available on his website "No Second Troy" - A short story that is available in the Broken Empire Omnibus Road Brothers - A short story collection that has 10 stories all set in The Broken Empire world. Gunlaw (2015) A Standalone book that is serially released on Wattpad Blood of the Red - A standalone books that is serially released on Wattpad "The Hero of Aral Pass" (2017) released in Art of War: Anthology for Charity "Overdue" (2023) - A short story that takes place in the Library trilogy world Returns (2024) - Two short stories ("Returns" and "About Pain") that takes place in the Library trilogy world Poetry Free poems available on his website: "Sea Song" "Stumble" "Blue" "Shouting for the Echo" "High, Cold, Silent, Alone" References External links Mark Lawrence Homepage Personal Blog Mark Lawrence Goodreads Page The Unofficial Website of Mark Lawrence Interview with Isaac Hooke Interview with Shadowlocked Grimdark Magazine interviews Mark Lawrence. Discover the Mark Lawrence popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mark Lawrence books.
Best Seller Mark Lawrence Books of 2024
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The Girl and the Stars
Mark LawrenceA stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister. In the ice, east of the ...
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Godblind
Anna StephensThe Mireces worship the bloodthirsty Red Gods. Exiled from Rilpor a thousand years ago, and left to suffer a harsh life in the cold mountains, a new Mireces king now plots an invas...
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The Mystery of the Stolen Brides
Robin SquireIt is the summer of 1891 and a young, beautiful bride is snatched from her wedding, leaving her guests shocked and her new husband distraught. A search is hurriedly mounted, but as...
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The Fall of Dragons
Miles CameronMiles Cameron is the master of intrigue and actionpacked battles in this epic tale of magic and mercenaries, war, depravity, and politics, the final book of the Traitor Son Cycle.I...
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Conan in the City of the Dead
John C. HockingTwo epics in one hardcover as Conan the mercenary faces hideously transformed wizards and undead creatures in actionpacked fantasy combining Robert E. Howard’s trademark sword and ...
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The Wind that Sweeps the Stars
Greg KeyesA taut high fantasy as an assassin must destroy an empire from within, eliminating wizards, their demons, and even the emperor. For the livesfor the very soulsof her people, she mu...
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Red Sister
Mark LawrenceThe international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen’s War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... ...
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Swarm and Steel
Michael R. FletcherZerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes of the desert, she is caught, disfigured, and left for dead....
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With Lawrence in Arabia
Lowell Thomas & Mitchell StephensIn 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to the Ottoman Empire to report on the revolts breaking out as an i...
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Temple of No God
H.M. LongEpic fantasy followup to HALL OF SMOKE, featuring crumbling empires, secretive cults and godlike powers to be claimed, for readers of Margaret Owen, Brian Staveley, V. E. Schwab an...
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Mark George Helmuth v. Lawrence Morris
Court of Appeals of UtahCROCKETT, Chief Justice Petitioner Mark George Helmuth appeals to overturn a judgment of the district court which rejected his petition in challenging his sentence of a term in the...
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The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse
Daniel KarlinDaniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (18371901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, ...
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Blood and Sand
Frank GardnerOn the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright...
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The Book That Broke the World
Mark LawrenceTwo starcrossed lovers living in a world connected by a vast and mysterious library find themselves on the run in the second book in a new series from the international bestselling...
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During the Dance
Mark LawrenceThe magic's in the dance and the dance goes on. Dad stopped drinking the day my sister was born. He called her his angel, and the booze didn't take him back until she died. He cam...
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Hall of Smoke
H.M. LongEpic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and f...
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Barrow of Winter
H. M. LongThrilling epic fantasy adventures set in the world of HALL OF SMOKE and TEMPLE OF NO GOD, featuring murderous conspiracies, howling icy wastelands and the Children of Winter, for r...
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Idle Hands
Tom FletcherCan Wild Alan unite the Discard against the tyranny of the Pyramid?Idle Hands is an ancient disease that once tore through the Discard, and if Wild Alan doesn't find a way into the...
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Once a Giant
Gary MyersThe inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resultedand stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews...
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Where Gods Fear to Go
Angus WatsonThe David Gemmell Awardshortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the final book in his West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle monsters, an u...
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Priest of Crowns
Peter McLean'Praise be to Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows, and blessed be the Ascended Martyr.' Those were the words on lips of the faithful: Blessed be the Ascended Martyr, and woe betide you if ...
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Genre Fiction
Mark LawrenceA slightly left of centre guide to the mechanics, and plumbers, of the fiction writers world.This ebook will disclose the background information that defines genre in the publishin...
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The Plague of Swords
Miles CameronWith more at stake than ever before, The Red Knight faces an uncertain future and is forced to team up with old enemies to defeat a greater evil in the fourth book in the Traitor S...
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The Combat Codes
Alexander DarwinIn a world where battlehardened warriors determine the fate of empires, warravaged nations seek out a new champion in the first book of a thrilling science fantasy trilogy: "that r...
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King of Thorns
Mark LawrenceIn book two of the Broken Empire trilogy, the boy who would be king has gained the thronebut the crown is a heavy weight to bear...At age nine, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath vowed t...
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The Silver Tide
Jen WilliamsThe final highoctane installment of the exhilarating British Fantasy Awardnominated Copper Cat Trilogy. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Jay Kristoff's Nevernight series. '...
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Darksoul
Anna StephensEvil gods walk the land as armies prepare for war in the thrilling grimdark sequel to the fantasy debut Godblind. In the besieged city of Rilporin, Commander Durdil Koridam orders...
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Prepare To Sell Your Company
L.B. BuckinghamSelling your company is a trying time, similar to selling your house. For those unfamiliar with this process, the challenging thoughts will be: 'How do I start?'; 'Who can help me?...
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Crucible of Chaos
Sebastien de CastellA mortally wounded magistrate faces his deadliest trial inside an ancient abbey where the monks are going mad and the gods themselves may be to blame!Estevar Borros, one of the leg...
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Pennyblade
J.L. WorradA sharptongued disgracednobleturnedmercenary has to stop the world collapsing into chaos in this gripping, savagely funny epic fantasy packed with unforgettable characters, for fan...
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Prince of Thorns
Mark LawrenceBOOK ONE IN THE BROKEN EMPIRE TRILOGY“Prince of Thorns deserves attention as the work of an iconoclast who seems determined to turn that familiar thing, Medievalesque Fantasy Trilo...
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The White Devil
Paul HoffmanTHE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIESAmerica is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . .Thomas Cale the world's most dange...
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Grey Sister
Mark LawrenceThe second novel in a brilliant fantasy trilogy from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.Behind its walls, the Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls t...
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Still Breathing
Suzette Llewellyn & Suzanne Packer‘A timely book and a conversation starter on race in Britain.’ Rachel Edwards, Author of Darling and Lucky‘A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain still has a very...
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The Dread Wyrm
Miles CameronThe Red Knight will fight his greatest foe yet, a warlike knight who plans to claim the throne of Alba for himself in the third book of The Traitor Son Cycle.Some are born to power...
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The Red Knight
Miles CameronMiles Cameron weaves an epic tale of magic and mercenaries, war and depravity, politics and intrigue in this actionpacked debut fantasy The Red Knight.Twenty eight florins a month ...
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Priest of Gallows
Peter McLeanGangster, soldier, priest. Queen's Man. Governor.'If you haven't yet picked up this riveting and unique series, I highly recommend you do' Fantasy Book Critic Tomas Piety has every...
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor HugoIn the vaulted Gothic towers of NotreDame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy danc...
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Pillar of Ash
H. M. LongYske, a healer and daughter of the warrior priestess Hessa, holds the balance of power in a worldshattering war of the gods, in this thrilling, mythical and emotional epic fantasy ...
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The Basilisk Throne
Greg KeyesMaster and Commander meets A Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Carribean. Rapidpaced high fantasy with allout combat on the high seas, and a canny young woman who faces the hidden...
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The People Speak
Howard ZinnCollected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book, A People's H...
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Holy Sister
Mark LawrenceThe searing conclusion of the thrilling epic fantasy trilogy that saw a young girl trained by an arcane order of nuns grow into the fiercest of warriors...They came against her as ...
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No Return
Mark Townsend'An incredible story, powerfully and beautifully told.' James O'BrienFive teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold st...