Robin Hobb is the author of four critically acclaimed fantasy trilogies: The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy and The Soldier Son Trilogy. She lives and works in Tacoma, Washington, and has been a professional writer for over 30 years.
In addition to writing, her interests include gardening, mushrooming, and beachcombing. She and her husband Fred have three grown children and one teenager, and three grand-children.
She also writes as Megan Lindholm, and books under that name have been finalists for the Hugo award, the Nebula Award, and the Endeavor award. She has twice won an Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award.
Want to know more about Robin?
Visit Robin’s official site
List of Robin’s books
Read an extract from Assassin’s Quest
Now Out from Robin Hobb:
Dragon Haven (Hardback)
Return to the Rain Wilds.
The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to cintue her study of dragons, and Hest’s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.
Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay their hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expedition and will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.
Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.
The Farseer Trilogy
The Liveship Traders
The Tawny Man Trilogy
The Soldier Son Trilogy
The Rain Wild Chronicles
The Inheritance (Coming April 2011 – Preorder Now!)
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WHY WHY WHY are these books STILL not available on Kindle UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am still waiting for a response about this.
I would love to have the Farseer Books on my Kindle. They are available in the states and apparently Germany, so why not the UK?
Hi Ingrid,
It was a rights issue but I believe it has been resolved now. We are working to get the ebooks up as soon as possible.
All best,
Amy
Hi ladies!
Are you able to confirm the title of ‘Book Four’ of Robin’s Rain Wild Chronicles, please, or is it still tentative at this stage?
I have quoted Robin as having named it ‘Dragon Blood’ within the Newsgroup but Jackie Morris had also named it a little earlier as ‘Blood of Dragons’ in a blog on her site. It would be terrific to clear that up, if possible. No worries though if we can’t know just yet.
Looking forward to City of Dragons first!
Thanks.
Netta
~When doe sThe Rain Wild Chronicles (3) – City of Dragons come out in the ~UK. esp in paperback. Do i really have to wait for 7 months?
Next Spring! So not as long as seven months.