A Renewed Focus
Overlord
Excuse the personal post here, if you don’t know me very well you probably want to skip it! 🙂 Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been a bit…
Overlord
The Last Exodus by Paul Tassi
I don’t read much Science-Fiction, but: “What would happen if you threw Independence Day, The Walking Dead, and Guardians of the Galaxy into a blender? I can’t say for sure,…
Expecto Patronum Named Best Harry Potter Spell
What!? You didn’t know that it was Harry Potter Book Night last night? You didn’t make it to one of the 10,500+ parties scattered across the UK? Missed out on…
A Darker Shade of Magic – TV Series!?
Some exciting news landed on our desks today: V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade Of Magic, which we named as one of our best books of 2015, has been picked up…
Fantasy Titles On Our Radar: February 2016 Edition
Welcome to the second edition of ‘On Our Radar’, your guide to Fantasy titles being release in the month ahead. Looking at the quality of titles this month, doesn’t it…
The Top 15 Tweets & Top 7 Blog Posts from Robert Jackson Bennett
Top 15 Tweets The Twitter-feed of Robert Jackson Bennett is a wondrous, but dangerous place to spend time. If you follow Robert in addition to another 1000 or so people,…
Cover Reveal: Joe Abercrombie’s ‘Half A War’
When Joe Abercrombie announced that he would be working on a ‘Young Adult’ series of novels a few years back, no one really knew what to expect. Would the books…
Cover for Lucy Hounsom’s Heartland
Fantasy-Faction contributor Lucy Hounsom’s debut novel, Starborn, attracted a huge amount of praise last year upon its release. Fans of coming-of-age stories by authors such as Trudi Canavan took to…
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff – Cover Reveal
Wayyyyyyyyyyy back in 2012 I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy of a strange fantasy/martial arts/steampunk-hybrid called Stormdancer. I enjoyed that book and gave it a favourable…
Frances Hardinge wins Costa Award
For the first time since Phillip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass in 2001, a Children’s book has won The Costa Book Award. That book is The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge…
Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett
I’m rather excited today, because I get to bring you an interview with Robert Jackson Bennett. For those who are unfamiliar with Robert’s work or fancy a bit of a…
Secret Mistborn Novella – Jan 30th!
This post has been updated as Brandon Sanderson has released further details about Mistborn: Secret History following the launch of The Bands of Mourning. The story begins a few weeks…