Fantasy
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The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle
Anne Lyle’s debut novel, The Alchemist of Souls, is an intriguing mix of magic, drama, espionage, swordplay and politics set against a backdrop of Elizabethan England. I’ll be ... -
The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan
Promise of Blood, the first book in the Powder Mage series, caught my attention because it offered something a bit different than the standard fantasy fare I’m accustomed to. ... -
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Mort is the teenage son of a vineyard owner; unfortunately, he has “about the same talent for horticulture that you would find in a dead starfish.” ... -
The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence has long been one of my favourite modern fantasy authors. First he blew me away with his Broken Empire trilogy (Prince of Thorns, King ... -
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
“Time’s arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and ... -
Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi
“Power is more than strength. It’s the ability to save or destroy.” Keith Yatsuhashi’s debut novel Kojiki (2016) is a wide-screen epic fantasy, a coming of age story ... -
Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be ... -
The Vagrant by Peter Newman
“Actions speak louder than words.” I heard Peter Newman speak at the Grim Gathering II in Bristol, where he gave a short summary of his book: ... -
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Let me put something in perspective. If you read Neuromancer, you remember the surreal paradise of Straylight, the space station Case and the crew travel to. You ... -
A Song for No Man’s Land by Andy Remic
He signed up to fight with visions of honour and glory, of fighting for king and country, of making his family proud at long last. But ...