A look at the latest fantastical fictions by Jodi Taylor, Brandon Sanderson, Kim Ewhan and more
From The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal, to The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Mediaeval England, we look at this month's latest fantastical fictions. Photograph: iStock
She’s a troublemaking teenager bent on revenge; he’s an ex-butler turned criminal mastermind with a barely suppressed instinct for violence and an invisible pod that allows him to flit back and forth through time. How could it possibly go wrong? This breezily irreverent tale is told by Smallhope, whose take on the world is as comically skewed as that of any character dreamed up by Jasper Fforde and Kyril Bonfiglioli .
Sam Thompson: ‘I really don’t think there is a distinction to be made between writing for adults and writing for children’The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden: Beguiling love story told in language that entertains and enthrals, translated by Sean Lin Halbert, opens with Jeong-su running for his life from “objects of pure terror” – spherical orbs two metres in diameter that have simply appeared on the city’s streets and begun absorbing people into their insatiable maws.
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