Tim and SJ are back for a deep dive into Nathan Makaryk's epic and daring debut, Nottingham. Spoilers ahead! Makaryk (@NathanMakaryk) rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those history never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain.
No king. No rules. 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...
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250195609/nottingham
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