FANTASY AND SCI-FI By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 BST, 21 May 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 21 May 2020 The Book of Koli By M.R. Carey (Orbit £17.49 hardback; £6.99 paperback) The Book of Koli By M.R. Carey (Orbit £17.49 hardback; £6.99 paperback) It’s grim up north in Koli’s post-apocalyptic world. … Read more
While we’re spending more time indoors, many of us are seeking home comforts – and for a lot of people this comes in the form of videogames. The recent release of Final Fantasy VII Remake (FF7R) is the ideal dose of nostalgia to sit back and enjoy. Originally released in 1997, Final Fantasy 7 is … Read more
Hundreds of players attend funeral procession in online game Final Fantasy after coronavirus kills their gamer friend Friends of the character known as Ferne Le’roy organised the funeral procession The mourners gathered in the desert city of Ul’dah on the game’s Zalera server The procession began in the middle of the night and crossed different … Read more
WHAT BOOK would fantasy novelist Sarah J. Maas take to a desert island? Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh’s A Madness Of Sunshine She would take Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game to a desert island American novelist said George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:05 BST, 2 … Read more
FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 19 March 2020 THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A. K. Larkwood (Tor £16.99, 464 pp) THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A. K. Larkwood (Tor £16.99, 464 pp) What’s not to like about a betusked teenage priestess-turned-assassin, especially when she’s … Read more
SCI-FI & FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For The Daily Mail Published: 22:09 GMT, 14 November 2019 | Updated: 22:47 GMT, 14 November 2019 ANGEL MAGE by Garth Nix (Gollancz £18.99, 560 pp) ANGEL MAGE by Garth Nix (Gollancz £18.99, 560 pp) Think of rapiers and gauntlets, cardinals and queens, add in a healthy dose of … Read more
The ‘fantasy movie’ landscape of one of the most isolated and remote regions in the Himalayas has been revealed in a series of incredible pictures. They were taken by Lithuanian explorer Darius Radkevicius in Upper Mustang, a semi-autonomous region of Nepal that only opened to tourists in 1992. While there he took part in a … Read more
Britons spent £69 million on audiobooks in 2018 and sales have rocketed by an astonishing 194 per cent over the past five years, so why are more and more of us listening to books instead of reading them? Their surging popularity is driven by the fact that it is now so easy to download audiobooks … Read more