Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome' ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias’ In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages’ A DANCE WITH DRAGONS In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balancebeset by newly emerging threats from every direction. 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best' The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. But beyond the Wall the wildling armies are massing for an assault… From the Wall, having left his wife and the Red Priestess Melisandre under the protection of Jon Snow, Stannis Baratheon marches south to confront the Boltons at Winterfell.

In King’s Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted while in the eastern city of Yunkai her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.Ī DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series.

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