A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Gets a New Book Cover Ahead of the HBO Series Premiere

If you're not acquainted with each of the Game of Thrones books already, it's worthy noting that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is not portion of the main series. The communicative takes spot astir 100 years earlier the commencement of A Game of Thrones and follows the adventures of Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and his squire (Egg). The publication itself is really a postulation for 3 novellas that were released successful antithetic years. Within this postulation there's The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight.

If you privation to work the publication without the tie-in cover, you tin besides bargain the archetypal postulation astatine Amazon. This mentation features a stylized shield alternatively than actors from the show.

The TV Series Is Based connected the First novella

Although the publication is made up of 3 novellas, the archetypal play of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is adapting the archetypal novella: The Hedge Knight. George R.R. Martin has praised the bid up of its release, calling it "as faithful an adaptation arsenic a tenable antheral could anticipation for (and you each cognize however incredibly tenable I americium connected that peculiar subject)."

Here's the authoritative synopsis of the upcoming bid that has been released by HBO:

"A period earlier the events of Game of Thrones, 2 improbable heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set successful an property erstwhile the Targaryen enactment inactive holds the Iron Throne, and the representation of the past dragon has not yet passed from surviving memory, large destinies, almighty foes, and unsafe exploits each await these improbable and incomparable friends."

Upcoming Dunk and Egg Novellas

There person lone been 3 full Dunk and Egg novellas published truthful far, but George R.R. Martin has expressed a tendency to constitute an full series. The caveat to that is that Martin has besides stated helium would request to decorativeness the sixth publication successful A Song of Ice and Fire, The Winds of Winter, which is already rather late.

If Martin is capable to decorativeness his long-awaited last introduction successful the main Game of Thrones series, we person immoderate thought of what to expect from much novellas. According to Martin the adjacent Dunk and Egg novella is acceptable successful Winterfell and involves “a radical of formidable Stark wives, widows, mothers, and grandmothers that I dubbed ‘the She-Wolves.’”

Additional Dunk and Egg novellas Martin has planned see a Riverlands-set communicative called The Village Hero, arsenic good arsenic stories with the tentative titles The Sellsword, The Champion, The Kingsguard, The Lord Commander, “and respective much successful between.”

Originally posted:

Jan 13, 2026 8:59 pm