Copyright

A Gollancz eBook

Copyright © Joe Abercrombie 2011

Axe illustration © Didier Graffet/Bragelonne 2010

Map © Dave Senior 2010

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The right of Joe Abercrombie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 2011

by Gollancz

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This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.

A CIP catalogue record for this book

is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 0 575 08875 7

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