Kate Forsyth

Psykhe is the perfect winter read. GUARDIAN This romance is lush and forbidden, pushing and folding the peaks and troughs of the narrative to its final conclusion. ARTSHUB The story of Psyche and Eros has been told for more than two-and-a-half thousand years. Kate Forsyth infuses it with new vigour as a life-affirming celebration of female strength, sexual desire, and...

The Witches of Eileanan, Book Four. A magical ride through another chapter of Eileanan's rich and turbulent history. Finn the Cat is bored with life as a banprionnsa. To make things worse, her cousin Brangaine has come to live with them and is everything a banprionnsa should be—beautiful, gracious, and always perfectly behaved. Luckily for Brangaine, a caravan of jongleurs...

When a bestselling author and a much-esteemed painter meet at a party, they soon cook up the idea to collaborate and make a book about the life cycle of a woman... Two brilliant artists get together and plan a dramatic book in words and images about the twists and turns in the life cycle of a woman. From birth onwards,...

Moving between Imperial China and the 'Terror' of the French Revolution and inspired by the true story of the quest for a blood-red rose. Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisima-sur-le-Lac in Brittany. Her father, the Marquis, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau's orchards, gardens, and...

Ava fell in love the night the Nazis first showed their true nature to the world. The Beast's Garden is a retelling of the Grimms' Beauty and The Beast, set in Nazi Germany. It's August 1939 in Germany, and Ava's world is in turmoil. To save her father, she must marry a young Nazi officer, Leo von Löwenstein, who works...

One of the great untold love stories - how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales - filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen Wild told Wilhelm some of the most powerful and compelling stories in the famous fairy...

A reimagining of Sleeping Beauty set amongst the passions and tragedies of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets. The Pre-Raphaelites were determined to liberate art and love from the shackles of convention. Ned Burne-Jones had never had a painting lesson and his family wanted him to be a parson. Only young Georgie Macdonald—the daughter of a Methodist minister—understood. She...

Psykhe is the perfect winter read. GUARDIAN This romance is lush and forbidden, pushing and folding the peaks and troughs of the narrative to its final conclusion. ARTSHUB Kate Forsyth infuses the story of Psyche and Eros with new vigour as a life-affirming celebration of female strength, sexual desire, and empowerment. It is not wise to anger the gods... or...

The Witches of Eileanan, Book One. A gripping story of witches, enchantment, magical creatures and dragons. Since the Day of Reckoning, witches and magic have been outlawed on Eileanan. The great towers, once centres of learning, are now abandoned ruins. The penalty for practising witchcraft is death. Yet the Lodestar still calls to the Rìgh, king of Eileanan, making him...

The Witches of Eileanan, Book Three. Another spellbinding episode in this enchanting series. Lachlan the Winged now holds the Lodestar and is Rìgh of Eileanan. But his battle to gain the throne is only the first of many that he and Eileanan must face. The half-breed Maya, who wrought such terrible persecution upon Eileanan's witches and fairy creatures, has disappeared....

The Witches of Eileanan, Book Two. At the Day of Reckoning, witchcraft was outlawed in Eileanan. Behind the persecution is the beautiful and mysterious Banrìgh. Not all the witches were killed on the Day of Reckoning. The wood witch Meghan leads the half-blackbird, half-man Bacaiche and the Scarred Warrior Iseult through the countryside to the safety of the Veiled Forest,...

The Witches of Eileanan, Book Six. The explosive final instalment in this bestselling series. Before his death, the blind prophet Jorge had foreseen the conjuring of a tidal wave by the sea-dwelling Fairgean, Eileanan's bitterest enemies. Driven by ancient hatreds, the Fairgean have called upon dreadful powers to aid them in their quest to totally annihilate all those who dwell...

The third and final instalment in Kate Forsyth's thrilling Rhiannon’s Ride trilogy. Lord Malvern swore he would have revenge on Lachlan the Winged for the death of his brother and nephew. Now Lachlan is dead, and his children have all been stolen away. Lachlan's son Donncan is the new Rìgh of Eileanan, but after his abduction on his wedding night,...

The first instalment of Rhiannon's Ride, the exciting fantasy trilogy by Kate Forsyth, author of the bestselling Witches of Eileanan series. One-Horn's daughter is not like the other satyricorns. Born of a human father, she has failed to grow the horns so prized by her kind. Soon the satyricorns will kill her and even if she runs away, their swift...

Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of wonder both to enchant and entertain us, and also to teach us that—if we are good and kind and courageous enough—we can change the world for the better. For this is what fairy tales do. They give us hope. As we travel through the dark and dangerous world of...

Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. The Crimson Thread by Kate Forsyth is Australia's gift to the world of historical fiction and fantasy. —...

A lovely stew of sex, fairytales and, well, sex really. The Age. An exquisite rendering of the story behind the Rapunzel fairy tale. Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her...

From bestselling author Dr Kate Forsyth comes another enchanting oracle deck centred around the magic of nature.A set of 44 oracle cards which explore the history, folklore and uses of key magical plants in the hedge witch tradition, a way of life which seeks to live mindfully and magically in tune with the natural world. In this pack of oracle...

Finn travels the world on a magical quest to find the golden bird, in the company of a wise old fox. Rory releases a captured mermaid from his fishing net, and her father gives him a ring that will bring him his heart's desire. Bahram saves the life of a cat, a dog, and a snake, so when he loses...

Snow White Rose Red and Other Tales of Kind Young Women tells the tale of Snow-White & Rose Red saving an enchanted bear from an ungrateful goblin. Marushka is sent to find strawberries in the snow by her cruel step-sister but wins the help of the Twelve Months. Ailsa climbs Mischanter Mountain to rescue her sister, armed with nothing more...

The Moon is saved from the bog by the courage of those who love her bright light... Fenella stays silent for seven years and weaves cloth from nettles to save her brothers... Nastia must learn to survive alone in the land of the midnight sun... Jiayang, daughter of the Emperor of China, devises an impossible quest for her unwanted suitors......

Vasilisa the Wise and other tales of brave young women by Kate Forsyth showcases a collection of enchanting tales featuring courageous young women. Meet Vasilisa, who must try to outwit the fearsome witch Baba-Yaga. Discover the story of Katie Crackernuts, who sets out to save her sister from dark magic. Follow Flora, the gardener's daughter, who marries a giant serpent...

Set against Scotland's first witch-hunt, a young woman with faery blood must defy two queens to survive love, magic and treachery. On her fourteenth birthday, Caiti NicNeven discovers her true mother is the queen of the Sidhe, the faery folk who dwell beneath Scotland's hollow hills. Bound by ancient grievance, the faery queen demands Caiti become the instrument of her...

Once A long time ago My grandmother’s grandmother Travelled far, far across the seas Over the rim of the world to where the stars were new Kate Forsyth tells tales of her ancestors’ lives in Australia in this beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates the power of story. From the first perilous journey to a new land, to the great...

Bitter Greens is the winner of the 2015 American Libraries Association prize for Historical Fiction. "A lovely stew of sex, fairytales and, well, sex really." – The Age. An exquisite rendering of the story behind the Rapunzel fairy tale, Bitter Greens follows Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis...

The second instalment of Rhiannon's Ride from the bestselling Australian author Kate Forsyth. Imprisoned in Sorrowgate Tower, Rhiannon awaits her trial for murder and treason, while the winged horse Blackthorn flies forlornly over the Shining City. Alone and in terrible fear for the future, Rhiannon is haunted by the malevolent ghost of a dead queen who has a hunger to...

Longlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards: Non-Fiction In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that pushed Charlotte through turmoil in...