Game of Thrones star Lena Headey marries Ozark actor Marc Menchaca in Italy. Details here

A running Netflix show, the Six of Crows duology is set in author Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse, where magic is the ruling force, but the protagonists barely have any.

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s winding tale about a legendary movie star takes readers on a journey that ends where it began: with Evelyn Hugo, a glamorous and gripping character study

A half-fae assistant antiquities dealer must work with a fallen angel and her full-fae brother to uncover a sinister plot in this tale by Sarah J. Maas. Having pulled in rave reviews, the book’s sequel is in the works.

V.E. Schwab’s trilogy about a smuggler who can travel between worlds, the books are set in three versions of London that are home to varying amounts of magic.

This is the story of a hunter who searches through a mythological Africa to find a lost child, with a giant, a witch and a shape-shifting leopard for company. Written by Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James, the book is a surreal ride.

Mythological writing superstar, Madeline Miller, the author of Song of Achilles now tells the tale of Circe, the daughter of Greek sun god Helios, who is exiled to a foreign island, where she hones her witchcraft.

Laini Taylor creates a self contained epic in two books that keep you fully engrossed in the fate of Lazlo Strange, an orphan who lives for knowledge about a city that nobody remembers anymore.

If new tales are not your fare, here’s a classic you can fall back on: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s hilarious and witty story about the end-of-the-world. It’s also a show on Amazon Prime, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen.

Once a cultural phenomenon, Game of Thrones has sunken to internet ignominy thanks to a disastrous last season. But the source material is and always has been the better world to escape into. Read the first five books and hope and pray George R R Martin releases the sixth soon.