The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby
“A stunning debut novel, well-crafted and grotesquely inventive.
With its madcap story, unforgettable characters and fine balance between
humour and pathos, The Corpse-Rat King ticks all the boxes.
Fans of Joe Abercrombie will love this.”
– Juliet Marillier, award-winning author of the Sevenwaters series and Bridei’s Chronicles
“Battersby absolutely nails the narrative style, balancing humour and horror,
fantasy and felony. It’s another quick-moving, well-written story that amuses,
excites, and concludes with some rather deep, and remarkably heavy musings
on the subjects of life, death, and the afterlife – or the lack thereof.”
Bob Milne, Beauty in Ruins
Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying.
It’s up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.
File Under: Fantasy [ Dead Reckoning | Strange Problems | By Royal Decree | Still Running ]
Cover Art: Nick Castle
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Book Info:
The Second Marius don Hellespont Novel
UK Print
Date: 4th April 2013
ISBN: 9780857662897
Format: Medium (B-Format) Paperback
R.R.P.: £8.99
US/CAN Print
Date: 26th March 2013
ISBN: 9780857662903
Format: Small (Mass-Market) Paperback
R.R.P.: US$7.99 CAN$8.99
Ebook
Date: 26th March 2013
ISBN: 9780857662910
Format: Epub & Mobi
R.R.P.: £5.49 / US$6.99
Other Books in This Series:
1. The Corpse-Rat King (September 2012)
Buying Info:
UK Print & Ebook
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North American Print & Ebook
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Global DRM-Free Epub Ebook
Robot Trading Company
Author Info:
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Praise and Reviews:
“With this sequel, Battersby kicked up everything I loved about the first novel by a notch or two – world-building, storytelling, hilarity, and most of all, characters who just made me punch the air over and over again, usually while laughing.”
– Kate Of Mind
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