The 'Cambridge Companion' label is a byword for rigour and quality, so my expectations in purchasing this volume were set very high indeed.

At just over three-hundred pages this fantasy novel is far more slender than anything I’m used to within the genre.

This dark fantasy novel for children is one of my favourite books, in part because it combines two of my favourite types of fiction.

'The Daylight War' is the third in Brett's Demon Cycle series, the first two novels being 'The Painted Man' and 'The Desert Spear'.

This sword-and-sorcery fantasy novel is the second in the 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen' series.

In some ways, 'The Forge in the Forest' from Michael Scott Rohan is an entirely typical quest epic in the realm of fantasy.

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.

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