Fantasy
Three Souls
Editors' choice
Song Leiyin is dead. She senses a bright light drawing her into the afterlife but also a weight holding her…
The Witch’s Daughter
‘My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. If you will listen, I…
While Beauty Slept
This engrossing historical fantasy imagines the story of Sleeping Beauty as told by a young woman of humble birth who…
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
Fiction meets history, meets steampunk, meets gothic horror in David Barnett’s page-turning romp though a Victorian world where the British…
Hunter of Sherwood I: Knight of Shadows
This re-imagining of the Robin Hood legends is fixed firmly in 1191 – King Richard away on crusade, Prince John…
Stone Lord
Stone Lord’s highly original premise takes the legend of King Arthur back into prehistory to the early Bronze Age. This…
Jade Boy
The blurb says this is a ‘thrilling story of sorcery and mystery laced with macabre horror and historical detail’ –…
Daedalus and the Deep
During the mid-1800s, after the wars between France and England have ended, the HMS Daedalus, led by an erratic captain…
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story
When he is a boy, William Bellman somehow manages to kill a rook stone dead with a single catapult shot.…
The Garden at the Roof of the World
This historical fiction has been set up to read like a historical manuscript, complete with footnotes by the “translator” and…
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