Continuing the most imaginative and ambitious epic fantasy since The Lord of the Rings The last of the Targaryons, Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, has brought the young dragons in her care to their terrifying maturity. Now the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as in the violent past. Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf with half a nose and a scar from eye to chin, has slain his father and escaped the Red Keep in King's Landing to wage war from the Free Cities beyond the narrow sea. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula into a smoking, demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea. A Dance with Dragons brings to life dark magic, complex political intrigue and horrific bloodshed as events at the Wall and beyond the sea threaten the ancient land of Westeros. / A Feast for Crows went straight into the Sunday Times top ten. It went to number 1 in the New York Times list. / The entire Song of Ice and Fire series has been optioned for TV by HBO / Packaged in a fabulous series style to pull in mainstream buyers as well as the fantasy core readership. / Each hardback has sold more than the one before, A Feast for Crows reaching 40,000 copies. / Paperback backlist sells and sells. The first book in the series, A Game of Thones, is now nearing 150,000 copies sold. / Competition: Robert Jordan, Raymond E. Feist, David Gemmell