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Start giftingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
Length
12 hours 5 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Bookseller recommendation
“I thoroughly enjoyed this story! It was appropriately dark for a book about fairies...'real' fairies, you know. It is set in a world in which Folklore, as in the lore of the fae, is a legitimate field of scientific study and it was fun reading a fairytale told through that lens. There was a sweet hint of romance and it features a heroine who could arguably be ace. Way to represent!!”
Maren,
Nook & Cranny Books
Bookseller recommendation
“Written in the style of a scientific journal from the point of view of hapless and dour Emily Wilde, when I first started this book, I was a bit worried. But, as soon as the magic of this world blew onto the scene, all my worries were swept away like cobwebs! Bamleberry is the perfect foil to Emily, and their scenes are positively kinetic. So too is every moment Emily spends with the Folk she confesses to understand better than people. The world building is wonderful, both the icy northern island and the mysterious world of faerie that slips into the corner of our eyes. And slowly, as Emily begins to open up to those around her, I found myself becoming more and more fond of her, until I found myself understanding and adoring her perhaps even more than the magic and the mystery that allowed me to get to know her. Totally compelling and so much fun. My only complaint? I wish there was more! Here's hoping to a sequel in this book's future.”
Amy,
Bookbug
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
“So endlessly enchanting, so rich and complete and wise that you’ll walk away half ensorcelled.”—Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people.
So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.
But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart.
Heather Fawcett is the author of the middle-grade novels Ember and the Ice Dragons, The Language of Ghosts, and The School Between Winter and Fairyland, as well as the young adult series Even the Darkest Stars. She has a master’s degree in English literature and has worked as an archaeologist, photographer, technical writer, and backstage assistant for a Shakespearean theater festival. She lives on Vancouver Island.
