COMPETITION: Win a signed hardcover of HOLY SISTER by Mark Lawrence
The GdM team and I love Mark Lawrence’s books, so we’re really excited to be able to partner with HarperVoyager UK to give away five copies of Holy Sister, book three in the Book...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Winners of the EMPIRE OF DUST competition
We have the winners of the EMPIRE OF DUST giveaway competition! A quick reminder on the prizes For this competition we were lucky enough to have Anna’s publisher throw down a world-wide signed trilogy...
EXCLUSIVE: The House of Sacrifice UK cover reveal and excerpt
Hot damn I’ve been itching to get my hands on Anna Smith-Spark’s third book The House of Sacrifice since I fell in love with Marith and Thalia in The Court of Broken Knives and The Tower of Living and Dying. This swirling epic of broken characters and...
ANNOUNCEMENT: GdM#19 April edition
I have some bad news for GdM fans, but it’s short-term and for a (hopefully) acceptable reason. There will be no Grimdark Magazine released on the 1st of April 2019. The next issue to...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Jason Deem moving on | GdM looking for new cover artist
It’s been an unbelievable four years working with Jason Deem, but unfortunately for GdM and our fans our wonderful cover artist has decided it’s time to move on. He’s produced a tall stack of...
Stop whinging about the cost of ebooks
Reading community: I have a bone to pick with some of you. For the love of the literary gods can you stop flipping out about the cost of ebooks. Let’s forget the years of...
GdM’s most anticipated SFF books of 2019
2019 is shaping up to be an absolute cracker for dark and grimdark SFF. These are the books the GdM team are most looking forward to reading (and hopefully reviewing) next year. (Click here...
2018 best SFF books picked by the GdM team
2018 was an amazing year from grimdark and dark SFF, with more and more books coming out that tick our boxes. As per every year for the last four years, the GdM team have...
The Traitor Baru Cormorant has one of the best protagonists in fantasy
Sweet literary gods, I’ve just been in the mind of a genius–and I’m not just talking about Seth Dickinson’s imagination. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is one of the best books I’ve read this year. It’s...
REVIEW: The Tower of Living and Dying by Anna Smith-Spark
The Tower of Living and Dying both builds upon and eclipses the world and story Smith-Spark started with The Court of Broken Knives. It’s bigger, wider, more sprawling than its predecessor, and yet also...
