Magic Fiction Since Potter

  This is a little gem of a book. It is very American in several senses, but that is not to say that it is in any way inaccessible to chi...

Six months or so into this blog seems a good time to reflect on my reading quest thus far. I set out principally to explore a question: ar...

  Although it is some while since my last post I have not completely neglected my quest. It is partly that I have recently had a rather f...

  Another wonderful find and the start of what promises to be a truly great children's fantasy trilogy. This book will I think, have...

Neither bestseller status nor significant awards will necessarily qualify works for inclusion in this survey of the best magical fantasy f...

Apart from its first volume, Dragonborn, being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2012, the UK publication on Toby Forward's Flaxfi...

  This is a hugely entertaining and engaging fantasy from a most promising debut US author.   Mapped world Paul Durham creates a self-contai...