Magic Fiction Since Potter

  Joe Abercrombie here continues his Shattered Sea trilogy. Anyone who enjoyed the first volume, Half a King (and there was much to enjoy,...

. Despite a childhood which included, for a time, a modest Hornby layout on my bedroom floor (once around the dirty socks, a station of pil...

Every now and then I find myself reading a children's or YA book which does not really fit in at all with the fantasy theme of my blog b...

  With their first book in this new sequence, The Iron Trial , these talented, experienced and hugely popular writers worked a very clever t...

I make no apology for including here a book that isn't a fantasy, because The Marvels is a truly magical work in just about every...

  The last published Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett was always going to be a special book, in his readers' affection if nothin...

I have noted before that some books seem to find their own way to you; they chose their own time to be read. Here is a good example. I ...