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.

I reviewed Katharine Kerr's most recent novel 'Sword of Fire' (2020) for the British Fantasy Society a while back, which set me thinking...

'The Wise Man's Fear' is described as 'The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two'. This intrigued me, as I hadn't read the first book in the series.

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

I love Indian-inspired fantasy, and there just isn't enough of it around, so when I discovered Tasha Suri's debut novel I leapt at...

I began to realise that there are so many amazing sigils from real families. Many of them are far stranger than anything in fiction.

If you don't like your fantasy too serious, or simply want a break from mainstream epic fantasy, Terry Brooks may be the author for you.

'Prince of Thorns' by Mark Lawrence is straight-up swords and sorcery fantasy, with the emphasis on combat.

'The Dragon Token' is the middle book in the fantasy Dragon Star trilogy, which is itself a follow up to the popular Dragon Prince series.