Books by Mark Lawrence
“It’s very flippant, very dark humour…The main character Jorg is very much like Alex from Clockwork Orange. Jorg is thirteen. He’s very physically precocious, so he’s not your normal thirteen year old – he’s six-foot-something and incredibly good with the sword. He’s bright, he’s witty, he’s always got a zippy one liner; and he has absolutely no morals. As we get into the books, we begin to see that he is actually very damaged. And he’s now doing the most revolting appalling things for the lols, because he can. He’s rampaging through what you begin to discover is in fact post-apocalypse Europe, which has gone back to the Middle Ages in the weird way that post-apocalypse fantasies often do.” Read more...
Anna Smith Spark, Novelist
Interviews where books by Mark Lawrence were recommended
The Best Grimdark Fantasy, recommended by Anna Smith Spark
Grimdark fantasy is cynical about the righteous and the good – but it brings fantasy into line with historical reality, says author Anna Smith Spark. She explores why we want to read about flawed people doing terrible things, and introduces her top five choices: stories that charge gleefully beyond the bounds of sanity, offer a shock treatment for anxiety, and above all provide an honest mirror to reality.
