The English proverb 'Old Sins Cast Long Shadows' could easily serve as a motto for the fantasy novels of David Gemmell.

A number of things jumped out at me when I first came across this book in one of our local secondhand bookshops.

The cover quotes from Joe Abercrombie and Steven Erikson hinted that we were going to be in down-in-the-dirt fantasy territory.

Raymond E. Feist is the internationally acclaimed author of nine bestselling fantasy series, but 'magician' is where his decades-long