New books to look out for… Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairytales
If you’ve been around for a while you might know that I adore Kate Forsyth’s writing. She is one of my most favourite authors and I love the way she tells stories, whether in a traditional fairytale sort of way or by deconstructing age-old tales and myths and pulling the themes into different settings. Given this, any time she has a new book on the horizon it goes straight onto my “can’t wait list” and today I’m talking about her next release; Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairytales, which will hit shelves in the first week of April.
Here’s the blurb from the publisher’s webpage:
Fairy tales are as old as language itself.
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 the fairy tale, as we fight dragons and outwit ogres and save our sisters and brothers, we learn that we are capable of anything. And then we return to our own world with all that we have learned along the way, stronger and braver than before.
The stories in this book come from all the corners of the world. Some were told in deep time before history was recorded, and some were written not so long ago. All of them have been unjustly forgotten.
In this collection of long-lost fairy tales, author Kate Forsyth and illustrator Lorena Carrington work together to bring tales of wisdom, compassion, and courage to life for the modern-day reader.
I do have a few collections of fairytales told by Forsyth and illustrated by Carrington, and they are all just stunning, so I am extra excited to be able to add this to my shelves soon!
If you’d like to hear about more upcoming titles that book bloggers are getting excited about, pop over to Wishful Endings where Tressa hosts a weekly meme to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read.
Let me know in the comments if there’s a particular title you’re excited about at the moment!
xo Bron
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Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairytales is out 4 April from New Dawn Publishing.
You can find my review of Vasilisa the Wise, a previous fairytale collection by Kate Forsyth and illustrated by Lorena Carrington here and keep up with Kate on her website here.
14 Comments
Tonje
The book sounds amazing! I might just have to check this one out. Sidenote: That cover is stunning!
Laura@Reading Books Again
I love that these stories are being preserved for history’s sake and, yes, that book cover us gorgeous.
Bookish Bron
Isn’t it stunning? Lorena Carrington’s art is always gorgeous so I can’t wait to see inside too!
Barb @ Booker T's Farm
I love the sounds of this one. I’ve not read this author but I can understand why you can’t wait to get your hands on it. Especially since she is a favorite. Gorgeous cover too!
Bookish Bron
So exciting when a favourite author has a new book coming out!
sjhigbee
What a beautiful cover and a lovely collection. I hope you enjoy it!
Bookish Bron
Thanks so much!
Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense
I have never read a Kate Forsyth book, but I am very intrigued. Do you have a recommendation for where to start with her work? This is also blurbed by Juliet Marillier, the author I credit for getting me into fantasy.
Bookish Bron
Hello! Ok, so Forsyth has covered quite a lot of ground in terms of genre and target audience (she has written for kids as well as adults!). I really love her historical fiction built around fairytale themes – my faves are probably Beauty in Thorns about the wives and muses of the pre-Raphealite artists, and Bitter Greens which is based on Rapunzel. However, if you love Juliet Marillier you might like her series The Witches of Eileanan which starts with Dragonclaw. I’d love to know what you think if you do pick up something of hers!
Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense
Writing these all down! Thank you for your recs! Looking these up to see which calls to me the most.
Jordan @ Forever Lost in Literature
This sounds wonderful–and looks beautiful! I don’t think I’ve read anything from Kate Forsyth, either, so now I’m really intrigued to check out her work. Sounds right up my alley. I hope you enjoy this one!
Bookish Bron
Thank you so much! I definitely recommend checking her out!
Literary Feline
This sounds amazing! I bet I would really enjoy this. I’ve been wanting to read something by Kate Forsyth for some time. I hope you love Long-Lost Fairytales when you read it. I bet the illustrations will be lovely too!
Bookish Bron
I feel like the fairy tale collections are a great place to start because they’re short! You can really get a feel for her writing from them.