On June 5th, London’s Royal Festival Hall will host a 35th Anniversary DANCES WITH WOLVES in Concert. The Academy Award-winning movie was based on the novel by Michael Blake, which was re-issued a little while ago by Head of Zeus in the UK — in an edition that includes the sequel, THE HOLY ROAD. Here’s the synopsis…

1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here he is alone.

His desolate posting will bring him into contact with the lords of the southern plains – the Comanche. He has no knowledge of their customs but Dunbar is intrigued by these people and begins a transformation from which he emerges a different man. A man called Dances With Wolves.

The story continues, 11 years later in The Holy Road. Times are hard for the Comanche. The white man is closing in from all directions, claiming land, driving the tribes on to reservations. Should the Comanche fight or make peace? Misunderstanding and duplicity lead to raids and atrocities on both sides that can have only one conclusion. The man that was John Dunbar must go to war again.

The epic novel that inspired an Academy Award-winning movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, are presented here in one volume for the first time. For fans of Larry McMurtry, Charles Portis, and epic series like Yellowstone 1883.

UPDATE (22/05): Bloomsbury has two tickets to giveaway to this event! Full details can be found here, and you can also enter for a chance to win the tickets there as well.