Coming Soon: The Prisoner Of Heaven - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is no small thing to not only make the top ten list of a fantasy/sci-fi book nerd, but to top it as favourite book of all time is kind of impressive for a Gothic historical thriller. Zafon did that with the incredible SHADOW OF THE WIND, and then brought out the darker quasi-sequel THE ANGEL'S GAME which was impressive as well. After seeing a couple of his early works (YA titles) translated in the meantime, it looks like Zafon is now ready to drop his latest book. And of course, it concerns The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books and it sounds like this is a direct sequel to THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and I absolutely CANNOT wait!

See below the Spanish Cover art for the blurb directly from Zafon's English website.

"The Prisoner of Heaven, the brand new novel from Carlos Ruiz Zafón, is to be published next summer.

The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins one year after the close of The Shadow of the Wind when a mysterious stranger enters the shop, looking for a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.

The Prisoner of Heaven is published in Spain today and the English language version will be out in the UK on 21/06/2012"

~http://www.carlosruizzafon.co.uk/

Upcoming: Sanderson's steampunk Mistborn book, Alloy Of Law Cover & Synopsis Emerge!

My affinity for all things Brandon Sanderson does not (as one might assume) derive from his finishing of the end of the WHEEL OF TIME series for Robert Jordan, but rather from his own books. The MISTBORN series is chief among those. It is a stunning trilogy that contains everything that I love about a world, not to mention a series. Unique, thrilling, emotional and action-packed, Sanderson's original books pack a punch!

Well, it is time for that punch to have allomancy and feruchemy to apply to guns. The details on the forthcoming short-story-turned-novella-turned-full steampunk-era Mistborn novel, THE ALLOY OF LAW have surfaced, not to mention a Chris McGrath (I love McGrath’s work TBH) drawn cover. 

I'm so beside myself with excitement for this book, you have NO idea!

PLEASE NOTE: Since some folk may not have read MISTBORN the synopsis may contain spoilers of a type, so I have made it white…swipe it to see it.

So without further brouhaha: (swipe now)

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.