Fantasy

"It seems a curious choice, I suppose, to take a world of such huge stakes and instead focus on the small things"

Six of the 14 Fiction sub-categories posted record returns last year, as the genre's annual haul surpassed its previous record by more than £50m.

You would be forgiven for thinking that bookshops were caught in a landslide of fantasy fiction in 2024 with authors such as Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros dominating the top end of the fiction charts - as seen in our Author Review of the Year in last week's issue (The Bookseller, 17th January 2025).  Read more

The hugely popular author reveals his excitement at the release of his latest Stormlight saga, how he extracted himself from Amazon and why JK Rowling should have stuck to novels

Ten years ago, Jeff VanderMeer penned the unsettling, swampy, bureaucratic hellscape of Area X: a contaminated region off of the Floridan coast that became the setting for his immensely popular Southern Reach trilogy, comprised off Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance.  Read more