Stories that build up new worlds or shine light in corners of old ones, stories that focus on minors & original characters...

( 6 recs in artworks, Chalion & Sharing Knife series, A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Hour, Incredible Hulk )

Dark disturbing tales, stories about ghosts and all the other things that inhabit the dark...
( 5 recs in classical mythology, Graveyard Book, Hinterland, Tam Lin, Watership Down )

A smaller set than many years, but I'm still going to attempt to split them by theme. Here lie stories about women being sisters, daughters, wives, lovers, friends, rivals, collaborators, witches & storytellers, women coming into their power...

( 6 recs in Arthurian legends, historical RPF, Howl's Moving Castle, The Tempest, Watership Down, Welsh mythology )

More miscellaneous than usual, with the usual mix of old & older. Including my favourites from Night on a Fic Mountain 2014 & Not Prime Time 2013.

( 10 recs in Chalion, Doctor Who, Hamlet, HP, Narnia, Norse myth, P&P, Silmarillion, Torchwood, Watership Down )

I finished a little Earthsea ficlet I was playing with in 2011: The Lion's Roar, being a slightly tongue-in-cheek account of the early days of Lebannen & Seserakh's marriage.

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The 2015 round of the
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Assorted mainly rarelit recs from the Narnia Exchange, Fic Corner, Not Prime Time & elsewhere...

( 11 recs in classical mythology, Dalemark, Jungle Book, Just So stories, Little Prince, Narnia, Vorkosigan, Watership Down )

From Rarewomen & the final (sniff) round of the HP Beholder's, among other places.

( 5 recs in HP, ST:TNG )

A predominantly female-centric batch including Sutcliff Swap 2014 & Rare Women 2014.

( 5 recs in Tolkien, Sutcliff (Blood Feud, Outcast, Silver Branch )