Fantasy Book Review

Fantasy Book Review is dedicated to reading and reviewing the very best fantasy books for children and adults (both young and old). Featuring interviews, the latest fantasy news, audio-book reviews and competitions we aim to provide fantasy fans around the world with a useful, interesting and informative guide to the genre. If you would like to help us to read and review these fantastic books then do please get in touch.

We are constantly running special features on topics and events that we feel particularly passionate about. Please find this month's highlights below.

An image taken from the front cover of the quarterly consumer book magazine We Love This Book.
We Love This Book
New magazine
An image taken from an illustration of David Rudden's Senescence.
Senescence
FBRSSC #1
An image taken from an illustration of Kat Zantow's To Ashes.
To Ashes
FBRSSC #3

Every month we choose four books that have been a joy to read and review. They may not necessarily be new releases, and quite often may have been in print for decades.

An image taken from the front cover of Mazarkis Williams's The Emperor's Knife
The Emperor's Knife
Mazarkis Williams
An image taken from the front cover of Tim Marquitz's At The Gates.
At The Gates
Tim Marquitz
An image taken from the front cover of Tad Williams's Shadowheart.
Shadowheart
Tad Williams
An image taken from the front cover of Praetorian by Simon Scarrow.
Praetorian
Simon Scarrow

Keeper of the Realms: Crow's Revenge by Marcus Alexander

We are lucky in that authors are arguably the best - and easiest - people to interview. They are so passionate about their work, and so comfortable with words, that each and every interview we conduct is a real pleasure. Below are listed our most recent interviews. To see our complete list, please click on the "Interviews" tab on the site's navigation.

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Audrey Niffenegger to pen her first ever fantasy story for a commercial trade anthology

Audrey Niffenegger is to pen her first ever story for a commercial trade anthology, after signing to Solaris’ forthcoming short story collection, Magic.[...]

The Fearsome Beastie marks the return of scary fairy tales for children

Over the years thousands of stories have been written for children, from nursery rhymes and comic books to novels and everything in between. And yet, the[...]

Solaris to release new dragon series from James Maxey

A new trilogy is soon to be published by one of Solaris Books most popular authors, James Maxey. Greatshadow will be the first book in the Dragon[...]

The ultimate Hammer Horror they never made…

At its peak in the 1960s, the legendary Hammer Films embarked upon an ill-fated new horror movie that was Dracula, Frankenstein and Dr Terror’s House Of[...]

Pushing Yourself In Every Way by Mhairi Simpson

I probably shouldn’t be writing for public consumption right now. I’m tired, and in a fair amount of pain, but I’m making myself write because, well,[...]

Finalists for the 2011 Kitchies announced

The finalists for the 2011 Kitchies have just been announced. The awards are for the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works of[...]

Babylon Steel: Fantasy for grown ups

Ex-sword-for-hire Babylon Steel runs the best brothel in the city. She’s got elves using sex magic upstairs, S&M in the basement, a green troll[...]

Finding One’s Voice by Mhairi Simpson

I’ve been doing that thing I shouldn’t do again. Reading other people’s posts. There are all sorts of tremendously serious, erudite blog posts about[...]

Announcing the DFB Storyblog from David Fickling Books

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