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With the TV series of the Wheel of Time completing its third season, I thought now would be a good time to re-read the book series. Published…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…