?Colossal, staggering? Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ? one of the greats of fantasy literature?SFX

?This is one of those rare and effortless reads? ROBIN HOBB

?George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books? RAYMOND E. FEIST

?Such a splendid tale. I read my eyes out ? I couldn?t stop till I?d finished and it was dawn? ANNE MCCAFFREY

?George Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy? KATHARINE KERR

?Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse? JANNY WURTS

HBO?s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin?s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series.

?Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing? Sunday Times

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction.

Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has escaped from King?s Landing with a price on his head.

To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone ? a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected 998th Lord Commander of the Night?s Watch. But Jon has enemies both inside and beyond the Wall. And in the east Daenerys Targaryen struggles to hold a city built on dreams and dust.