El Taller de las Mariposas, Giocanda Belli
For children and adults alike, Odair, one of the “Designers of All Things” and grandson of the esteemed inventor of the rainbow, has been banished … Read more
Category Archives: Fairytale
Awakening Worlds, J.C. Thomas
Awakening Worlds is a coming of age novel with contemporary Gothic themes and elements of magical realism, a must-read for anyone who loves otherworldly fantasy. … Read more
Winternight Trilogy, Katherine Arden
This looks fantastic! A fairytale/fantasy where surrounding nature strongly intersects with the story. A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s … Read more
Forgotten Things, Stephen Mullaney-Westwood
The beauty of the Cornish countryside… The innocence of childhood in the 1980’s… An ancient mystery not quite forgotten. Mullaney-Westwood’s first novel is a spiritual … Read more
The Story Collector, Evie Gaughan
See our world eco-fiction spotlight on this title at Dragonfly. The Story Collector treads the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen … Read more
The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg
Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we … Read more
Leaf and the Sky of Fire (Twig Stories, Vol. 2), Jo Marshall
In a dying forest – infested with bark beetles – impish, stick creatures called Twigs are forced to hide in a cave, or be devoured … Read more
Leaf & the Rushing Waters (Twig Stories, Vol. 1), Jo Marshal
When a glacier melts, a dam of ice fractures, and a river called the Rushing Waters is set loose on an old growth forest. The … Read more