Mark Lawrence was born in Champagne-Urbanan, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. He went back to the US after taking a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College to work on a variety of research projects including the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme. Returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He says he never had any ambition to be a writer so was very surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His first trilogy, The Broken Empire, has been universally acclaimed as a ground-breaking work of fantasy, and both Emperor of Thorns and The Liar's Key have won the Gemmell Legend award for best fantasy novel. Mark is married, with four children, and lives in Bristol.
‘An excellent writer.’ George R.R. Martin 'If you like fresh,
take-no-prisoners fantasy, this is for you'
No.1 New York Times bestselling author Rick Riordan ‘Dark,
passionate, tense, with a female hero anyone could relate to–I was
utterly fascinated! This is no pretty, flowery tale, but one of
vastly different people struggling to survive when a hostile
government comes to power’ – No.1 New York Times bestselling author
Tamora Pierce ‘This is a book very distinct from everything that
came before; what it has in common though is a narrative that pulls
no punches, and characters that are beautifully, brokenly,
repellently, cleverly human’ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews ‘I had
never thought it was possible to find a greater character than the
Emperor Jorg Ancrath. I had never even slightly considered that
there might be a fantasy world out there toppling that of Τhe Final
Empire, and most definitely, I had never thought that i could love
a book more than The Night Angel. But here we are’ BookNest ‘Any
other author is going to have to smack the ball way, way out of the
park to top this read’ Parmenion Books
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