Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy novelist, born on 31 December 1974 in Lancaster, England. He worked as a television film editor before turning to writing, and published his first novel, “The Blade Itself”, in 2006, opening the First Law trilogy. He extended the same world with the standalone novels “Best Served Cold”, “The Heroes” and “Red Country”, and later the Age of Madness trilogy (2019-2021). He also wrote the young-adult Shattered Sea trilogy (2014-2015), which won a Locus Award. In 2025 he opened a new trilogy with “The Devils” (Gollancz), whose sequel “The Heretics” is announced for May 2027. He is known for grim, morally ambiguous “grimdark” fantasy.