Escape into worlds where magic flows like rivers and heroes forge legends with every step. Whether you’re seeking epic quests across mystical realms or intimate tales of wonder, fantasy literature offers boundless adventures waiting to unfold. From timeless classics to modern masterpieces, these must-read fantasy books will transport you beyond the ordinary into realms where anything is possible.
Your Next Favourite Fantasy and Sci-Fi Read
Tailored Realities
9781399633239 | Gollancz | TPB
Brandon Sanderson
Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe.
Along with the never-before-seen novella ‘Moment Zero’, Tailored Realities will include ‘Snapshot’, ‘Perfect State’, ‘Defending Elysium’ (a novella set within the world of Skyward), and five other stories that were originally published individually elsewhere – never before collected into one volume, and many never before available in print.
The collection will also include a stunning black-and-white illustration for each story.
Unbound
9781035441518 | Mountain Leopard Press| PB
Penelope Bloom
Welcome to Confluence Academy…
Nineteen-year-old Nessa Thorne expects death when she volunteers for the Empire’s selection. Instead, she’s thrust into Confluence Academy, where students harness elemental magic and bond powerful beasts, from wolves to ancient dragons.
Students are branded by affinity: water, air, earth, or fire. But Nessa’s mark is different. A silver spiral – the mark of an unbound. It’s a power so dangerous her kind were hunted to extinction centuries ago – or so the Empire claims.
To survive, she must hide what she is in a castle where alliances are forged in blood and students kill each other freely for advantage. Nessa’s greatest threat may be the only other volunteer, Raith Hollow, a powerful fire affinity with a scorching gaze that follows her every move and secrets that could topple kingdoms.
Forbidden desires become impossible to ignore, enemies approach from beyond the castle walls, and something evil has found its way inside – stalking the midnight corridors, hiding in plain sight.
Nessa must choose: embrace her terrible potential, or watch everything she’s fought for burn.
Because at Confluence Academy, students leave as weapons… or they don’t leave at all.
🔥 A delicious slow burn romance as dangerous as the magic? Check.
🔥 A final line readers are saying will haunt you for weeks? Double check.
🔥 An ending that will leave you desperate for book 2? Absolutely.
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The Once and Future Queen
9781399746021 | Hodderscape | TPB
Paula Lafferty
SOME LEGENDS DON’T TELL THE WHOLE STORY
After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera is content to fade into the background, washing sheets and cleaning bathrooms in a Glastonbury hotel. But when a mysterious guest reveals himself as Merlin and whisks her back to seventh-century Camelot, everything changes. He insists she’s not just Vera, she’s Guinevere, and only she can undo the curse draining the kingdom’s magic and save Camelot from the will of a power-hungry mage.
There’s just one problem: Vera remembers nothing of her past life. And with Camelot teetering on the edge of collapse, time is running out.
As Merlin works to restore her memories, Vera uncovers a tangled history of betrayal, power, and heartbreak. Why does King Arthur recoil at her presence? What truly happened the night the curse was cast? And why does every answer feel like it’s tearing her in two?
In a kingdom built on legend, Vera must decide who she is-before the past destroys the future.
This compelling and lushly written book is the first in an addictive new romantasy series, that offers a wholly original retelling of Guinevere and Arthur’s love story, perfect for fans of Outlander.
Dawn of the Firebird
9781526674388 | Bloomsbury Archer | TPB
Sarah Mughal Rana
The raven, crane, and firebird each chose a tribe of man, granting humans heavenly magic.
But power in man’s hand caused endless wars for land.
With mankind’s destruction, the birds perished taking with them their magic.
Magic is now rare, war common.
The discarded daughter of an emperor, Khamilla Zahr-zad is raised with her mother’s nomadic tribe until a violent raid ends that peaceful life. Amid the chaos of death, the heavenly magic of nur awakens within her, granting her the power to wield a cosmic light.
Khamilla suddenly goes from outsider to weapon, finally accepted into her father’s court. Now worthy, she trains in combat and poisons, pledging loyalty to his throne. But tragedy strikes again and when her clansmen are defeated by a rival empire, Khamilla vows lasting vengeance as she escapes. However Khamilla is not alone – for something shadows her, feeding her darkness.
Hiding her identity, Khamilla infiltrates the enemy’s army academy. She studies jinn, magic, and martial arts from cutthroat mystic monks in a bid to bring down an empire from within. However, through her studies Khamilla begins to question her father’s teachings of war and rule.
With war escalating across kingdoms and a twisted magic spreading, Khamilla is torn between two impossible choices: revenge or freedom.
With gorgeous prose and a captivating magic system, layered with morally grey characters, Dawn of the Firebird embraces rich Islamic culture and raises provocative questions about individual power, choice, and the cost of war.
A Crown So Silver
9780356521336 | Orbit | BPB
Lyra Selene
On a mysterious snowy island ruled by a trickster king where magic comes at a price, a deadly trial commences. The prize: a chance for vengeance. A Crown So Silver is the second book in Lyra Selene’s Number One Sunday Times bestselling Fair Folk trilogy, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Fourth Wing.
After her sacrifice on the Ember Moon, Fia is flush with powerful magic and eager to rush into battle against her murderous sister, Eala. However, Fia’s new husband Irian suggests they bide their time and retreat to the Silver Isle, a snowy island at the edge of the fae world.
Ruled by the cunning smith-king, the Silver Isle proves far from a safe haven. Fia and Irian become embroiled in the Tournament of Kings competing for a magical forging of immense power. Fia and Irian’s relationship will be put to the test as they navigate their conflicting motivations, shifting allegiances and ancient magic.
With the end of the tournament looming and Eala’s threat growing, Fia must decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to defeat her sister.
The Library at Hellebore
9780575108493 | Gollancz | BPB
Karen Marie Moning
The first book of the blockbuster Fever series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning.
‘My philosophy is pretty simple: any day nobody’s
trying to kill me is a good day in my book.
I haven’t had many good days lately.’
MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that only breaks down every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman.
Or so she thinks … until something extraordinary happens.
When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death – a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone – Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed – a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae …
