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The Hobbit Official Trailer Released
A year until the movie hits cinemas across the world, The Hobbit official trailer is finally here and it is something that will blow your mind away. I love the singing, I think that really brings us right back to the theme and style of the original Lord of the Rings movies without hardly trying. [...]
Enhanced eBook Version of The Hobbit Released
eBooks are very much a part of the cultural zeitgeist right now thanks to readers such as the Barnes and Noble Nook and the everpresent Amazon Kindle, now available in new versions. So it’s no surprise that eBooks are being released more and more often with more and more features. Such as this new edition [...]
Fantasy news round-up, October 26, 2011
George RR Martin reveals his favourite ‘Game of Thrones’ actors New York Magazine’s Vulture asked Game of Thrones author George RR Martin to mention who were his favourite actors in the HBO series. “Certainly Peter Dinklage did an amazing job with Tyrion, who is one of my favorite characters in the books. We always wanted [...]
The World Book Night top 100 books to read, give and share
The folks over at World Book Night – www.worldbooknight.org – asked readers to nominate the 10 books they most love to read, give and share. Over 6,000 people nominated more than 8,000 titles and the top 100 are displayed below. I am pleased to say that I have read 22 of the listed titles and [...]
A Heist Too Far by Rob Knipe reviewed
I liked this book. If a four-word review is what you’re looking for then you won’t find much better than that. But for those who prefer a little more word-meat on their review-bones here are the many things I liked and a couple of things I didn’t. A Heist Too Far is a work of [...]
Fantasy news round-up, May 11, 2011
E-book sales at Hachette UK now 5% and catching US E-book sales at Hachette UK quadrupled in the first quarter of 2011 and are more than 5% of HUK’s trade sales, the company revealed, adding that it was beginning to catch up with the US, where e-books now account for 22% of sales. It projected [...]
New Tolkien novel blends historical fact with fiction
Mirkwood: A Novel About JRR Tolkien by Steve Hillard tells of Tolkien hiding secret documents that the forces of evil will do anything to obtain, and the young orphan girl, Cadence, who discovers them. In the opening pages of Hillard’s novel, world-renowned author and linguist Tolkien lands in New York City on a mysterious errand. [...]
Fantasy news round-up, January 20, 2011
Lee and Holm in talks to reprise Lord of the Rings roles in The Hobbit Sir Christopher Lee is in talks to reprise his role as the wizard Saruman and that Ian Holm will appear as an older version of his beloved role, Bilbo Baggins. Peter Jackson already secured the return of Andy Serkis (Gollum), [...]
Elijah Wood to appear in The Hobbit
Fans of the hugely successful Lord of the Rings films might be happy with the news that Elijah Wood is set to reprise his role as Frodo Baggins in the upcoming pair of Hobbit movies. That being said, there are likely to be many fans of the books – those of us who didn’t like [...]
Fantasy news round-up, December 23, 2010
Hay Festival 2011 headline guests announced The Telegraph Hay Festival has announced the first tranche of novelists, historians, actors and musicians that will be gracing this year’s event at Hay-on-Wye, the annual festival of literature and the arts which runs next year from May 26-June 6. Among the star names attending are the actor Simon [...]
Four books - old and new alike - that were a joy to read are selected each month. See past winners.
Ack-Ack MacaqueGareth L Powell
Days of Blood and StarlightLaini Taylor
Hemlock GroveBrian McGreevy
Zoo CityLauren Beukes
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