THE WAY HISTORY IS TOLD IN THE developed world is changing. Whereas prevailing narratives once focused on Europe and its diaspora, more and more often we’re being invited to see the past from other perspectives. This is part of a wider cultural moment, and fantasy fiction – so often associated at its worst with a kind of generic faux medievalism – is all the better for it.
“Reading something like Shelley Parker-Chan’s or Evan Winters’s African-inspired series [The Burning], these are books we’ve just not seen before,” says Stephen Aryan.
