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Matthew Ward returns to Aradane, where the gods have woken up in a foul mood.
Matthew Ward heads back to the world of his Legacy Trilogy with The Silverlight Trilogy, signed to The Broken Binding Publishing and due…
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October 2026
NewsFantasy
World Fantasy Awards 2026: M. R. Carey and Clive Barker give Liverpool a fantasy double (award news).
M. R. Carey's Once Was Willem wins the 2026 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and Clive Barker shares the Life Achievement award…
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Lizard Music: Benny Safdie’s Daniel Pinkwater adaptation lands on Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man (film news).
Amazon MGM has dated Benny Safdie's Lizard Music, adapted from Daniel Pinkwater's novel, for Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken…
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Narnia gets new jackets by Vance Kovacs, and Aslan has sneaked onto every one of them (book news).
HarperCollins unveils Vance Kovacs's movie-inspired Narnia covers for Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew, with hardcovers and box sets from November.
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A Court of Splintered Harmony: Prythian tunes up for 27 October, leaks, teeth and all (spoiler-free book news).
Sarah J. Maas readers have spent two months staring at a cover of burning bones and a set of teeth as if it…
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Fourth Wing finds its Violet and Xaden, and BookTok’s favourite fancast actually comes true (news).
Somewhere in Navarre, a dragon has just been told to hold still for a costume fitting. Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth…
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Artemis Fowl Gets a Second Wish as Disney Tries Again in Animation
Disney greenlights an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney+ with Eoin Colfer as executive producer, six years after the Branagh film.
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V.E. Schwab’s Victorious: Villains trilogy finally ends, only eight years late
The third and final Villains novel from V.E. Schwab is published by Tor Books on 6 October 2026, closing the long feud between…
July 2026
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Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once again that arranged…
May 2026
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood signs two-book Historical Fantasy deal with Transworld (Heaven immediately looks nervous) (news)
Transworld UK has pre-emptively acquired two new historical fantasy novels from bestselling author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a sentence that already sounds…
March 2026
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood heads back into fantasy with John Jarrold in tow (publishing news).
Some books arrive neatly pressed, polished and ready for market. Others spend twenty years rattling chains in the attic, refusing to die until…
July 2023
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The God Is Not Willing (The First Tale Of The Witness) by Steven Erikson.
The cover of ‘The God is Not Willing’ proudly proclaims ‘the first tale of witness’ and so it is possible to guess that…