The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.

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The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.
Books reviewed by the BFS
For ten years, Captain Peter Knowles has been in the middle of a war between humans…
Lord John Dalwood is a scholar studying ancient civilisations and is fascinated with Buddhism. When his…
This book is a sequel to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, although a note in the…
The National Museum of Scotland is still missing some of its rare artefacts, yet the authorities…
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Prefect Tom Dreyfus works for Panoply, a small police force whose sole focus is maintaining the…
Prince Ashoka Maura is the second son of Emperor Adil and differs from his father in…
Though the title might suggest a narrative which leans heavily into low fantasy, the stories inside…
Andrea Stewart’s debut, The Bone Shard Daughter, was one of the standout releases of 2020. Inventive…
In a cottage on the coast, Cyril waits for the world to end. The sky has…