Join us for an evening with Joe Abercombie as we celebrate the release of his new historical fantasy novel, The Devils.

Europe stares into the abyss.

Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone.

Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous will not dare to tread . . .

And so, buried beneath the sacred splendour of the Celestial Palace, is the secret Chapel of the Holy Expediency. For its congregation of convicted monsters there are no sins that have not been committed, no lines that will not be crossed, and no mission that cannot be turned into a disastrous bloodbath.

Now the hapless Brother Diaz must somehow bind the worst of the worst to a higher cause: to put a thief on the throne of Troy, and unite the sundered church against the coming apocalypse.

When you're headed through hell, you need the devils on your side.

Joe will discuss his new book before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Joe Abercrombie is a British author of fantasy fiction, best known for the First Law trilogy. Finding that his day job as a freelance film editor left him with a lot of time on his hands, Abercrombie began writing the first novel in an epic fantasy trilogy. That novel became The Blade Itself, published to widespread acclaim in 2005 and followed by Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings in 2007 and 2008 respectively. The series comprised the First Law trilogy, and Abercrombie went on to pen three standalone fantasy novels also set in the same world. In 2014, Abercrombie branched out into Young Adult fiction with Half a King, the first in a Viking-inspired series called Shattered Sea. Two further volumes in the series have thus far been written. His latest series, The Age of Madness, is a trilogy that returns to the First Law world.

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An Evening with Joe Abercrombie - Nottingham