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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.

 List of Robin’s books

We just couldn’t choose one book of the month this time around, as choosing between DRAGON KEEPER and DRAGON HAVEN by Robin Hobb proved too difficult! The duology is set in the Rain Wilds – setting of her internationally bestselling Liveship Traders trilogy – and combines gripping action with fantastically developed characterisation and a richly imagined world. We cannot recommend them highly enough!

Visit Robin Hobb’s official website.

Read an extract from Dragon Haven

As you know, each month we pick a classic fantasy novel that we have just rediscovered. This month it is Assassin’s Apprentice, written by Robin Hobb. For the majority of you this seminal work needs no introduction but for those of you who have not yet read a Robin Hobb novel, I cannot recommend this one highly enough. It follows Fitz, a royal bastard, and orphan, who must survive the deadly political games of the court, whilst keeping hidden his secret magic and learning the deadly art of the assassin…