To celebrate this year’s releases of two extraordinary novels: Joe Abercrombie’s (pictured above, right)
The Trouble With Peace and Andrzej Sapkowski’s (pictured above, left)
The Tower of Fools we gave the two authors the chance to flip the tables and ask each
other questions about their novels.
Yesterday Joe Abercrombie puts Andrzej Sapkowski under the spotlight in part one (which you can read here), now it’s Andrzej’s turn…
Google told me that your debut book,
The Blade Itself, was published when you were 32. What’s the story there? What made you become a fantasy author? A Flying Muse, or something else?
To celebrate this year’s releases of two extraordinary novels: Joe Abercrombie’s (pictured above, right)
The Trouble With Peace and Andrzej Sapkowski’s (pictured above, left)
The Tower of Fools we gave the two authors the chance to flip the tables and ask each
other questions about their novels.
First up, Joe Abercrombie puts Andrzej Sapkowski under the spotlight…
Joe Abercrombie: The Hussite wars is a period that people in the west probably know little about – what made you choose it as a setting, and was there a difference writing in the real world rather than an invented one?
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Susanna Clarke’s new book
Piranesi swept the hardcover list, with a substantial lead over second place finisher
Battle Ground, Jim Butcher’s latest book in his long-running Dresden Files series. There were no new runners-up. We had 26 nominated titles, down from last month’s 35.
Our two top spots on the paperback list copied last month, with
Dune by Frank Herbert in first place, followed by Brandon Sanderson’s
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