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RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rebecca Zahabi Publisher Gollancz This is Rebecca Zahabi’s first adult novel after 2020’s YA hit The Game Weavers. The Collarbound has a whiff of YA about it still: young Isha arrives at m

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RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

Empire Australasia

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FINNISH FILMMAKER DOME Karukoski is a self-proclaimed Tolkien nerd. He first read The Hobbit aged 12, and still watches Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy every Christmas. (“The extended versions,” he is careful to point out.) So when

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Miles Cameron switches from fantasy to space opera for ARTIFACT SPACE (out now, Gollancz), which centres on a vast merchant vessel. When on-the-run orphan Marca poses as a midshipman on the Greatship Athens, she gets caught up in a plot to destroy th

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Author Dian Hanson Publisher Taschen Price £150 Web www.taschen.com Available Now Taschen’s Masterpieces of Fantasy Art showcases imaginative art primarily from the 20th century, in a mammoth, highly produced hardback. Yet this mouth-watering prospec

Popshot Magazine

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ISSUE 25 — FANTASY AUTUMN 2019 There are no limits on fantasy. Yet, in literature it is so heavily steeped in genre it’s impossible not to think of warring kingdoms, dragons, unicorns, witches and other supernatural tropes. Fantasy with a capital F i

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MEET THE COMPLIANCE MANAGER BEHIND YA FANTASY NOVEL KINGDOM OF SOULS Tell us about your protagonist. Arrah hails from a powerful family of witchdoctors, but doesn’t have magic of her own. When the Demon King threatens her kingdom, she must trade year

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Never thought I’d say it, but it’s lovely to play as a goblin. Too much time wasted in the Warhammer fantasy world means I go in expecting to be a jittering, capering villain, only interested in sticking people with sharp things. But Master of Shado

Writer's Digest

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David Burns says the reason why fantasy is such an old but thriving literary genre is that fantasy stories speak to emotional truths. “A good fantasy story is going to make you feel something and resonate about subjects such as love, family and the n

Los Angeles Times

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What would J.R.R. Tolkien have made of "Tolkien," the touching, polished, impeccably well-behaved new movie about his early life? The author's estate has already weighed in, distancing itself from a project that moved ahead without its participation

HELLO magazine

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It’s the most run-derful time of the year as social hotspots up and down the country gear up for Christmas by welcoming the annual Santa Fun Run, where Father Christmases of all ages and sizes jovially jog for charity. In Scotland last weekend, an ab

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It’s fitting that our image of Father Christmas is of a portly old cove bursting out at the seams, because he is in fact two figures squeezed into one vast festive red onesie. Until the late 19th century, Father Christmas and Santa Claus were quite s

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 344 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Steve Feasey Publisher Bloomsbury A magic sword, an abandoned baby of mysterious origins, and a malevolent sorcerer looking to plunge the world into chaos… Dark Blade ticks off a lot of epic fantas

Writing Magazine

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The University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies has launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. The new venture’s inaugural event was a free Zoom lecture on 16 September by fantasy author Ellen Kushner, followed by a discussion panel on f

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Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

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Verily is a US web journal for women. The editorial team ‘sifts through the noise of the world to elevate what is honest, real, and beautiful for the modern woman’. Columns requiring subs are Travel with a Local about the ‘hidden gems’ in your neighb

Writing Magazine

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Project Northmoor is the name of a campaign to purchase JRR Tolkien’s Oxford home, the house where he wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of The Rings. Tolkien lived with his wife, Edith, and family at 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford from 1930-47. Author

Country Life

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ONE hundred years ago, in late December 1920, a letter landed on the doormat of an Oxford home. It was addressed to a three-year-old boy named John and the envelope bore an exotic stamp priced at ‘2 kisses’. Inside was a hand-painted card showing a f

The Atlantic

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The Lord of the Rings author once wrote a short tale about a painter that elegantly argues for the value of escapism in literature.

Guardian Weekly

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By Alastair Reynolds Reynolds is best known as an author of hard science-based space operas, yet his latest novel begins on board a ship sailing up the coastline of Norway in the early 19th century. The mystery deepens as the same group of people, on

Literary Hub

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It is entirely possible that I have never had an accurate sense of what is called realism in that I do not, as a reader, discriminate between it and fantasy. My earliest reading was Greek mythology. As with my prayers, nothing was ever deleted, but

Los Angeles Times

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As "Game of Thrones" prepares to end, there will be an accounting. Of the dead and the living, of the weapons they carried and the colors they wore, of alliances broken, betrayed and forged. There will be catalogs of magical creatures, of characters

Literary Hub

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Editors’ Note: This month, in addition to our January recommendations from staff and contributors, we’re including a few picks from December—they were just too good to leave in 2019.  Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley  (MCD) Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener’s m

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Like many of us, W. H. Auden was a huge Tolkien fan in his day. In 1954, the celebrated poet raved about The Fellowship of the Ring in The New York Times, writing “No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy.” Afterwards, the

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Who forgets childhood Christmases? My mum would wake me at 11pm on Christmas Eve and dress me for Midnight Mass. It was the only night of the year I was allowed up so late. At 11.30pm, we’d all pile into our Austin 12 to go to church, dad driving. Bu

JOY Magazine

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The other day my Arnie (Aunty Trish) was telling me about some of the different Christmas traditions that have been passed down for generations. “Midgey”, she said, “There’s the Christmas tree – once thought to be of pagan origin – and now there ar

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He’s the über shape-shifter. He’s changed his guise more times than any other figure, fictional or factual, in history. We’re talking Bowie’s habitual metamorphosis to the power of several thousand. But where did the legend of Father Christmas — or P

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Inventing Anna on Netflix, but Raised by Refugees on Neon is also really great. It’s New Zealand-made and an easy one to binge! If you’re the heart-warming and ridiculously funny sitcom-drama type, this one’s for you! Can I say Beyond The Veil? I’v

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

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Umberto Eco has examined our ongoing fascination with the Middle Ages and listed ten different versions including the “shaggy medievalism” of works like Beowulf. Much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s success as a fiction writer derives from assimilating several of