JK Rowling and Erin Hunter have been nominated for an award given by the Children’s Book Council. They are both up for the award of Favourite Author for the books Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Warriors, Power of Three: The Sight respectively. Voting is now open and students can do so until the 4th of May by following this link - http://www.bookweekonline.com/nominees.html The winners will be announced at the the Children’s Book Week gala on May the 13th. Harry Potter ... read more
Posted: March 25th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Erin Hunter, JK Rowling
Some fantasy books transfer well onto audio book, some lose their magic. FantasyBookReview.co.uk will shortly be reviewing and rating the best (and worst) fantasy audio books available in the UK today. Before we begin, here is a list of the top ten best selling fantasy audio books on Audible.co.uk this month (March 2008). The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman Making Money - Terry Pratchett Northern Lights - Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Jonathan ... read more
Posted: March 24th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Audio-books
The movie version of Michelle Paver’s highly successful fantasy novel Wolf Brother was first scheduled for a 2007 US release but news has been think on the ground since. Encouragingly though is the fact that Ridley Scott’s name is still attached to the film, due to be distributed by 20th Century Fox. In getting Ridley Scott to direct the movie they have employed possibly the greatest living director, his portfolio includes Blade Runner, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, Alien and ... read more
Posted: March 24th, 2008 by Lee | 6 Comments Filed under General Interest, Michelle Paver
Four years ago, on a remote Indonesian island, fossilised remains were found of a metre-tall people whom the anthropologists dubbed hobbits after JRR Tolkien’s invention. The hominids lived around 18,000 years ago and there is now a debate raging as to whether the hobbit were, like our ancestors, Homo sapiens but stunted and retarded due to iodine deficiency in pregnancy or that they were a brand new species called Homo floresiensis. To read the full article on this subject, The New ... read more
Posted: March 23rd, 2008 by Lee | 1 Comment Filed under General Interest, JRR Tolkien
Prince Caspian will be in cinemas from May the 16th 2008 and the official trailer is certainly impressive. I have to admit to not having been abe to watch The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe all the way through but am tempted to give Prince Caspian a go as it was my favourite book amongst the Chronicles of Narnia. Take a look at the trailer below. CS Lewis biography, bibliography, interviews and book reviews Prince Caspian book review ... read more
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 by Lee | 2 Comments Filed under CS Lewis
A first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has been sold at auction for £60,000. The 1937 novel was sold at Bonhams in London for twice its predicted value. Since publication The Hobbit has sold more than 100 million copies, not bad for a book written to entertain his own children. The Hobbit book review JRR Tolkien biography, bibliography, interviews and book reviews ... read more
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under JRR Tolkien
Relic, the team behind smash real time strategy games Dawn of War and Company of Heroes have said that they would like to develop of real time strategy game based on George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. Josh Mosqueira, the lead designer at Relic when asked which book he would like to turn into a RTS replied Game of Thrones - that would be awesome. It’s like fantasy, but without the sucky parts of fantasy. George RR Martin biography, bibliography, interviews and book ... read more
Posted: March 21st, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under George RR Martin
The Runelords series from David Farland will reach its seventh outing with the release of The Wyrmling Horde in September 2008. There is however no update on the movie front with the prospect of the series being adapted into a trilogy now becoming unlikely. Hopefully The Wyrmling Horde will be a return to form for Farland following the distinctly average offering in The Lair of Bones, Sons of the Oak and Worldbinder. David Farland biography, bibliography, interviews and book reviews ... read more
Posted: March 21st, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under David Farland
On the 6th March 2008 a man called Gary Gygax died. It is a name that probably does not mean a great deal to many but he was one of the creators of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The fantasy genre is possibly the oldest form of story telling and the invention of Dungeons & Dragons breathed new life and created new interest in the fantasy works of JRR Tolkien. Some believed that the role-playing game was basically The Lord of the Rings in a game format. D&D’s ... read more
Posted: March 21st, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under JRR Tolkien, Terry Pratchett
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was recently voted the best children’s book of all time. It’s author CS Lewis is very much in the public eye at the moment with the recent release of the aforementioned book as a major film, Prince Caspian is due out on the silver screen in the summer of 2008. Lewis’s publishers Harper Collins asked professional graphologist Diane Simpson to analyse the author’s handwriting and her results made interesting reading. It seems to me ... read more
Posted: March 21st, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under CS Lewis
