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Our top picks for your 2021 TBR pile

Setting your reading resolutions for 2021? Determined to lose yourself in more incredible fantasy this year? Never fear, Voyager is here to share some of the incredible books we are publishing this year. From your favourite bloodthirsty authors to enchanting debuts, there’s something for everyone*.  *BEWARE: this blog and the… Read More

Celebrating kick-ass women in fantasy!

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate one of the greatest days of the year, we’ve pulled together a selection of kick-ass women in fantasy, from teenage witches and ambitious knights to ace assassins and resistance leaders. Even better, this is a list of fantastic fantasy written by… Read More

The ultimate Valentine’s Day fantasy…

. . . no, not that. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’ve selected some of the sauciest titles on our list for you to #StartYourVoyage with this February, whether you want a slow-burning love/hate romance or pure fantasy filth. The choice is yours. Nevernight –… Read More

Our top picks for your 2020 TBR pile

It’s that time of year to make plans for the next 12 months. Setting a Goodreads challenge, adding yet more books to our TBR pile and wildly speculating about which incredible books we’ll be reading in 2020. With so many amazing fantasy and sci-fi series out there (as proven by… Read More

The Forever Ship extract

Ahead of the paperback coming out next month we have a thrilling extract from Francesca Haig’s The Forever Ship – the final instalment in the enthralling Fire Sermon Trilogy…   PROLOGUE And so it did end in fire, after all: the flame bursting from its white centre. The blast opening… Read More

Building a magic system on memories – Gerrard Cowan

Memories can play tricks on us, fading and twisting over time and sometimes even changing altogether. How, then, can they form the basis of a magic system? That was the question I faced in developing The Machinery Trilogy. Without giving too much away, memories sit at the heart of the… Read More

The Anatomy of Truth by Nancy K. Wallace

From the very beginning, The Wolves of Llisé has been about truth. On my website, www.amongwolves.net there is a quotation by Mark Twain that I love: “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” It’s an old refrain but most would agree that history… Read More

Marina J. Lostetter – Alternate Yous

Clones have long held a fascination for storytellers.  Before cloning was a scientific reality, there were many myths and fables about evil twins, doppelgängers, and the creation of humans “from scratch.” Copies, supernatural reflections, and Frankenstein’s monster all come from the same long-standing questions and fears: what… Read More

Creating a World by Anna Smith Spark

When I came to write The Court of Broken Knives, it was the world that came first, not the story. The story, in fact, is pretty simple, in the way that myths and folk tales often are. The first scene I wrote was a description of men in a… Read More

Hero Risen: Guest blog from Andy Livingstone

The safety valve for our darker selves Cricket with my parents and brother on baking-hot days in a park on holiday in Blackpool. Tennis, with my dad pretending I was as good as him and, in later years, with my brother proving I was not. Rugby at school, hockey after… Read More

An exclusive message from Robin Hobb

I dedicated Assassin’s Fate to Fitz and the Fool. They’ve been my closest friends for over twenty years. That’s not to denigrate my marriage of forty-six years, or the friendships that reach back to my high school. The characters we write live inside our minds, creating an internal friendship that… Read More

A Letter from Mark Lawrence

Red Sister contains a very different story to that in my debut, Prince of Thorns, or my next trilogy starting with Prince of Fools. When I brought Jorg Ancrath’s story to a close I made it clear that I didn’t want to be wedded to one character for the whole… Read More

Red Sister is coming! Out tomorrow!

  “If you wish to know what someone is made of you must squeeze them until it shows.” In the Convent of Sweet Mercy Abbess Glass and her sisters apply pressure to the girls placed in their care. They find out what their novices are made of and train each… Read More