The story begins in Wolf Brother, set 6000 years ago in Northern Europe. The book makes a striking start with savage killing of Torak’s father by a bear possessed with a demon. Having been separated from the clans for most of his life, Torak is left to fend for himself...

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Choosing to read the Earthsea Quartet was not one of my typical impulse buys from Waterstones but the result of scouring Amazon, using the multiple, 5 star user reviews as a reassured assertion that this would prove to be a good read. Funnily enough it goes to show that judging...

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Having spent the past few years working my way through the standard fantasy offering in fiction, you know the type; elves, dwarves and societies not dissimilar to Earths middle ages, I felt it was time for a change. Now don’t be alarmed, I didn’t mindlessly wander into the Chick Lit...

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 At the turn off the twentieth century London is a city at the dawn of a new technological era. Glistening airships emerge from the relentless fog to soar the skies and shiny clockwork automatons carry out menial tasks for those lucky enough to afford their servitude. Testament to the genius...

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After a bit of unconventional exploration in the town’s local graveyard, Kenneth and Corrie Tyler discover that their bootlegging father wasn’t actually buried in the casket that they had paid for. Fuelled by curiosity, the siblings subsequently learn that their father wasn’t the only victim of the local undertaker,...

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I, Zombie is Part of Abaddon Books, Tomes of The Dead series, which aims to showcase some of the "very best eyeball popping, gut munching, zombie fiction around".Written by Al Ewing author of "El Sombra" and a contributor to cult UK comic 2000AD (Most famous for fascist future cop Judge...

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When Theo finds his dead uncle’s manuscript locked away in a safe housed by possibly the most bizarre bank in San Francisco, he thinks it’s the beginnings of a fantasy novel. The descriptions of fantastical like creatures in a faerie world with sky scrapers and horse-faced cab drivers is certainly...

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I was looking at my bookshelf and all the books gathering dust. It funny the way we hoard stuff for the sake of it, as once read I never pick these books up again. I figured I would start re-visiting some of the books I have read over the years....

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