Last Of The First: 26 (Saga Of Recluce book 26) by L.E. Modesitt (book review).
Don’t start here, but don’t read the other twenty-five books first. While Last Of The First is Book 26 of
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Disney+ Digs Up The Kane Chronicles, And We Have Opinions About Who Should Play The Cat (TV news).
Netflix let The Kane Chronicles rot in development for four years. Now Disney+ has prised the lid off the sarcophagus, with Rick Riordan co-creating alongside Angela Robinson. Here is what we know, plus our entirely unsolicited fantasy casting.
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HBO’s Harry Potter series finds its Dobby, its Ginny and its teenage dark lord (TV news).
Lenny Rush, Bonnie Hill and Billy Barratt join HBO’s Harry Potter for the ‘Chamber of Secrets’ season, as Ginny Weasley is recast and season two shoots before season one has even aired.
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Logan Of Loxley: The Death Of Robin Hood (film review).
Michael Sarnoski drags Robin Hood through the mud, the blood and a great deal of Irish drizzle, with Hugh Jackman as an ageing killer being crushed by his own legend. Plus Mark Kermode’s verdict.
Read MoreHarry Potter second teaser summons Hogwarts back for Christmas (trailer).
The Harry Potter second teaser has arrived from HBO, and with it eight episodes of Philosopher’s Stone, a cast list roughly the length of the Yellow Pages, and a Christmas 2026 date that Warner Bros. Discovery has almost certainly had circled in red since about 2023.
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Tim Curry dies aged 80: Darkness loses its best voice (obituary).
Tim Curry, the English actor who could turn a raised eyebrow into an instrument of mass seduction and somehow make
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Gor blimey: swords, giant birds and an extremely dubious Counter-Earth (article).
There are fantasy series which age gracefully. There are fantasy series which become beloved period pieces. And then there is
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Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan (book review).
There is a growing tendency to label books as ‘cosy’. Basically, this means that although characters may be placed in
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The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater (book review).
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater is a historical novel with elements of magical realism that fit it, just about, into
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Seasons Of Glass And Iron: Stories by Amal El-Mohtar (book review).
People read collections of short stories for various reasons. Often it is because they have read novels by the author
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