Tag: fantasy
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Tough Travelling: Beginnings
Welcome intrepid adventurers to Tough Travelling with the Tough Guide to Fantasyland! That’s right, we’ve dusted it down and brought back this feature (created by Nathan of ... -
HOW TO RULE AN EMPIRE AND GET AWAY WITH IT by K. J. Parker – Book Review
This is the history of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through. The City ... -
THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R. B. Lemberg (Book Review)
Some novellas are like short novels, others feel more like long short stories. Neither is necessarily better, but The Four Profound Weaves struck me as one ... -
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie — Book Review
‘People can be tough, survive so much hunger and cold and disappointment, take beatings you wouldn’t believe and come out stronger. But they can be so ... -
THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES by Alix E. Harrow (Book Review)
Settle down dear reader, make yourself comfortable, Alix E Harrow is about to tell you a different kind of fairytale… During the year of 1893 ... -
MORDEW by Alex Pheby (Book Review)
“It is a misapprehension to imagine that only the reader reads. The book reads, too, when its pages are opened. Your souls spill words into the ... -
Shadows of Ivory by T. L. Greylock and Bryce O’Connor — Book Review
“Knowledge is my greatest treasure. But it is also my greatest weakness. And now that I am here, now that I have been led to the ... -
Threading the Labyrinth by Tiffani Angus – Book Review
Threading the Labyrinth is an unusual work of fantasy fiction. The simplest handle on it might be to say that it is like a grown-up development ... -
Interview with Sam Hawke (CITY OF LIES)
I have wanted to write books ever since realising as a child that they didn’t just breed between themselves in libraries. Having contemplated careers as varied ... -
Black Stone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher — Book Review
Black Stone Heart is a captivating grimdark fantasy novel, driven by a morally compromised protagonist in an ambitious setting that feels at once comfortable and arrestingly ...
