Game of Thrones: Good news for Song of Ice and Fire fans – NEW BOOK cover revealed

Whilst sadly it’s not The Winds of Winter, it is the first volume of Fire and Blood – a two-part companion.

The cover that’s been released is for the German edition, Feuer und Blut.

Sharing it on Twitter Adam Whitehead wrote: “Behold! The German cover art for FIRE AND BLOOD (Part 1) by George R.R. Martin.

“Interesting that the Germans have got their cover art out before HarperVoyager or Bantam.”

A poster on Reddit claimed that the book will be out in early October 2018, but this has not been made official.

What is definite is that the first part of Fire and Blood will hit shelves before Winds of Winter – as confirmed by George RR Martin earlier this year.

Winds of Winter – the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, the series that sparked the TV show Game of Thrones – has been in the works for several years now, with still no concrete news on when exactly it will hit shelves.

Martin stepped down from his LiveJournal blog earlier this month in a bid to focus on the tome’s completion.

“All’s good, boys and girls… lots of exciting things going on,” he wrote. “LOTS of exciting things.

“Maybe too many. I am buried in work, so much that it is starting to overwhelm me. Even with my army of loyal minions.

“So I am going to step back from blogging — okay, from NOT-a-blogging — for a while, till I get a few of these monkeys off my back.”

Game of Thrones returns to TV in 2019.