Fans of the “Hunger Games” books and movies will be pleased that a new novel, this one focused on the back story of the villainous President Snow, is to be published in he spring.

Suzanne Collins’s series is a saga of rebellion and resistance in Panem, a dystopian version of America that became a successful film franchise, starring Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss and Canadian acting legend Donald Sutherland as President Snow..

The prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” will revolve around the young Snow, is set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games and details the “Dark Days” that led to the failed rebellion in Panem.

The new book is to be published in May.