Nottingham - by Nathan Makaryk (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

No king. No rules.

"The most pleasurable reading experience I've had since first discovering George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire." -- Bryan Cogman, Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Game of Thrones

Nathan Makaryk's epic and daring debut rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those history never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain.

England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, his country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, one of the largest shires in England, the sheriff seems intent on doing nothing about it.

As the leaves turn gold in the Sherwood Forest, the lives of six people--Arable, a servant girl with a secret, Robin and William, soldiers running from their pasts, Marion, a noblewoman working for change, Guy of Gisbourne, Nottingham's beleaguered guard captain, and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief--become intertwined.

And a strange story begins to spread . . .

Review Quotes

"Nottingham is an expansive, thoroughly engrossing epic with vividly drawn characters and rich historical detail." --Bryan Cogman, Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Game of Thrones

"Who doesn't like Robin Hood? The list is dangerously long, as revealed in this dark romp through Sherwood Forest." --New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs

"What is refreshingly different is that there are no villains here. Nottingham's road-to-hell makes use of proverbial paving materials: good intentions. ... Robin is but one small cog in the substantial machine of Makaryk's Nottingham as the author presents a large cast of characters and perspectives that allow his novel to provide a fresh take on an oft-told, always-compelling story." --Booklist

"This Robin Hood is so much more realistic about the politics of the time that it was like a new story greatly expanding a fragment of a myth. If you like Historical Fiction then Nottingham may be your big summer read." --Larry Yoder, The Bookies, Denver, Colorado

"A remarkable and comprehensive story ... this is unique fiction that compels revision of the Robin Hood story and its place in history." --The Historical Novel Society

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