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Advice often given to beginning authors is to write about what you know. For those wishing to produce contemporary fiction, this is a sound precept, and it…
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Binsa, who was just an ordinary girl before the testing, now sits the Scarlet Throne as Rakhti, and has done longer than any before her. To all…
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Since the slow-burn success of The Song of Achilles, publications of queer and feminist mythical retellings have exploded. The Valkyrie is another of those following this mould.…
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Grave Empire treads familiar fantasy territory. Right away, you know what you’re getting. The setting is second world, but very much akin to Napoleonic-era Europe. Musket and…
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Valour is having a nightmare again, of creatures of folklore and old gods. The assassin does not have time to dwell on her thoughts though. She has…
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Paige Mahoney has always dreamed of escaping Scion and returning to the free world beyond, where her mere existence doesn’t make her a criminal. Yet now that…
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I’m delighted that Philip Reeve has produced another MORTAL ENGINES novel. This one is perhaps even better than the four preceding it. It introduces us to a…
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An evocative dystopian novel that will stay in your mind for some time afterwards. The book is written as a historical tract, compiled by Military Proctor Idris…
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You are the sole survivor of the Kai, the protectors of Sommerlund; all your comrades and teachers have been killed by the Darklords of Helgedad, who have…
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