Recent Faves: Mordew, by Alex Pheby, The Poppy War, by R.F.

MJ: I need to stop Re-reading Gormenghast. Also essential: Angela Carter, the Brother's Grimm, And The Arabian Nights. Sofia Samatar's work convinced me I could do this.Horror is it's own thing, but I'm greatly influenced by horror, or horror tinged fiction, which means Coraline, Sandman and it's spin-off, like Death. Ursuala K LeGuin's Earthsea series, especially the first three books. Charles Saunder's Imaro Trilogy, which I'm shocked is out of print. It's the novel I always recommend when somebody wants to go deeper in the genre.

The problem is, we don't know where to start in terms of research.īelow are some of the authors and books he says he read before writing BLRW (I got these from Reddit and some interviews of his on YouTube). I know a lot of us writers felt very inspired by BLRW and MWSK and want to create our own worlds, characters, and have writing styles very similar to Marlon James'. ‘Complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping. Marlon James weaves a breathtaking tapestry – at once ancient and startlingly modern – exploring the fundamentals of truth, limits of power, excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.Ĭhronicling the same events but telling a very different story – who will you believe? Read THE DARK STAR TRILOGY in any order! Book two, MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING, is available to pre-order now. Why do so many people want to stop him from being found?Īnd, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying? But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last.Īs the mismatched gang follow the boy’s scent from perfumed citadels to enchanted darklands, Tracker starts to wonder: Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made’ Neil Gaiman ‘The kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. *Perfect f or fans of Pratchett, George R. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history, this is the story of a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers. Escape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY.

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