Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

The third instalment in the enchanting light academia Emily Wilde books, about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves, from Sunday Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett. Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries.

Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm-as its queen. Along with her former academic rival-now fiancé-the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell's long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare, filled with scholarly treasures. Emily has been obsessed with faerie stories her entire life, but at first, she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal world - how could an unassuming scholar like herself pass for a queen? Yet there is little time to settle in-Wendell's murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace.

It will take all of Wendell's magic and Emily's knowledge of stories-to unravel the mystery before they lose everything they hold dear.

• Format:
  • Hardback
  • 368 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Published: 11 Feb 2025
• Classifications:
  • Fantasy,
  • Myth & legend told as fiction
• Weight: 610g
• Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 36 (mm)
• Pub. Country: United Kingdom