Forty20 features thought-provoking articles by the game’s most respected writers and fascinating face-to-face interviews with rugby league’s most engaging personalities.

The trial issue is the first of rugby league's biggest year in decades: January 2013. Inside, Brian Noble takes a club-by-club look ahead to the Super League season ahead, while Gareth Walker does likewise with an equally historic Championships campaign.

Elsewhere, Angela Powers of Sky Sports grills Leeds skipper Kevin Sinfield on his surge in popularity; Andy Wilson profiles New Zealand's 'Mad Butcher'; St Helens prop Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook prepares for action; and Mike Rylance profiles a France side preparing for the World Cup.

Publishing wide-ranging and open-minded stories that are bright and witty, punchy and intelligent, Forty20 is unafraid to grapple with the big issues of rugby league.

Springtime brings sunny days and April's Forty20 is out now too.
Inside this month:
Insult to injury – Phil Caplan investigates reasons for the recent painful glut
NRL edge ever closer – we have all the latest on a Super League revolution
We learn what happened to Warrington's first ever SL try-scorer
Peter Smith reports on 30th birthday celebrations at Headingley
Trevor Baxter salutes Tara Jones MBE, Super League's first female referee
Brian Noble MBE isn't keen on the way England's new head coach is being sought
Tom Halliwell OBE gives us a club-by-club preview of the new wheelchair season
Wheels legend Wayne Boardman shares his 'Life in League' on retirement
Our World Cup countdown takes in Lebanon, France and New Zealand
Ian Boldsworth wonders whether time is up for Wembley Stadium
All of that plus much much more – brighter than a row of daffodils!
April's Forty20 – your monthly ray of sunshine