One of my favourite Authors of heroic fantasy, David Gemmell, died last month aged 57. I only found out because we were looking for the release date of his next novel after discussing it yesterday.

I never met him but having read all his novels and seen his style develop since his first novel, 'Legend' in the mid 80's, I felt like I did know him. I missed his book signing in Waterstones last year but managed to get an autographed copy of 'The Silver Bow' which I now will treasure.

Here is what the Guardian obituary had to say.

Condolonces to his wife and family and may he rest in peace.

Dave the Gnome