It is now twenty years ago that Leicester born-and-bred author Stuart Hill won the first ever Waterstones Children's Book Award with his...

Paul Taylor-McCartney’s Sisters of the Pentacle is the first book of The Broken Pentacle Series, and is a fascinating tale that mixes histor...

"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse":  The Cruel Prince by Holly Black drags the readers into the twiste...

Duncan Gill is a British author, born in England, Hemel Hempstead, in1987. T he Ancestral Odyssey is the name of his epic fantasy book serie...

"A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead." Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing plunges the reader...

  Roppotucha Greenberg is the author of a flash and micro-fiction collection Zglevians on the Move (TwistiT Press, 2019) and four silly-bu...

Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu is a series of historical Chinese fantasy novels about the once-prosperous crown prince...

  This is a thrilling fantasy novel from Stuart Hill's acclaimed Icemark series. Written mainly at the tills of Waterstones in Leicester...

Another very intense novel from David John Griffin. I enjoy stories about dreams and dream worlds, and also the concept of the quest, both a...

Garth Nix is a talented and well-known author but his Old Kingdom series is definitely one of my favourites. Sabriel combines magic, ad...

Katherine Hetzel has been an egg-pickler, weigher-outer of pic ’n’mix sweets, bacon-and-cheese-slicer, a pharmaceutical microbiolo...

Katherine Hetzel's second novel Kingstone introduces us to a world in which the triple gods reign supreme, where temples lie in e...

Every child knows the wonderful story of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: a light-hearted children’s tale of a wicked witch and a pai...