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Kate Forsyth


Australia (b.1966)

aka Kate Humphrey

Kate Forsyth is an Australian fantasy author, best known for the Witches of Eileanan series, and the Rhiannon's Ride series, which is also set in Eileanan.She is the author of several children's fantasy books, including The Gypsy Crown, The Starthorn Tree, Dragon Gold and Wishing For Trouble. She is an internationally published poet with a collection called Radiance, and has published a novel called Full Fathom Five under her maiden name, Kate Humphrey.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
 
Series
Witches of Eileanan
   1. The Witches of Eileanan (1997)
     aka Dragonclaw
   2. The Pool of Two Moons (1998)
   3. The Cursed Towers (2000)
   4. The Forbidden Land (2000)
   5. The Skull of the World (2001)
   6. The Fathomless Caves (2002)
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Rhiannon's Ride
   1. The Tower Of Ravens (2004)
   2. The Shining City (2006)
   3. The Heart of Stars (2006)
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Chain of Charms
   1. The Gypsy Crown (2008)
   2. The Silver Horse (2008)
   3. The Herb of Grace (2008)
   4. The Cat's Eye Shell (2008)
   5. The Lightning Bolt (2007)
   6. The Butterfly in Amber (2007)
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Novels
   Full Fatham Five (2004) (as by Kate Humphrey)
   The Star-Thorn Tree (2005)
   Sea Magic (2008)
   The Puzzle Ring (2009)
   Bitter Greens (2013)
   The Wild Girl (2013)
   The Beast's Garden (2015)
   Beauty in Thorns (2018)
   The Blue Rose (2019)
   The Crimson Thread (2022)
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Collections
   The Rebirth of Rapunzel (2016)
   The Silver Well (2017) (with Kim Wilkins)
   Vasilisa the Wise (2017)
   The Buried Moon (2019)
   Snow White, Rose Red (2020)
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Non fiction
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Anthologies containing stories by Kate Forsyth
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Short stories
The Boy from the Monster Forest (1998)


Kate Forsyth recommends
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After the Forest (2023)
Kell Woods
"A dark and wondrous tale. Utterly enchanting."
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The Forty Elephants (2022)
Erin Bledsoe
"So compulsively readable, the pages seem to whizz past by themselves."
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The Paris Orphan (2019)
The French Photographer

Natasha Lester
"A gorgeously rich and romantic novel."
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In the Blink of an Eye (2019)
Jesse Blackadder
"Quite simply a masterpiece."
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The Hollow Bones (2019)
Leah Kaminsky
"Kaminsky's prose is simple, elegant and restrained."
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Queens Of The Sea (2019)
(Blood and Gold , book 3)
Kim Wilkins
"The writing is elegant and lucid, and the story unspools swifty and strongly...one of the best fantasy series I've read in along while."

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