Kate Forsyth Books in Order

Raised secretly by a wood witch, Isabeau dreams of the time before magic was outlawed. When soldiers destroy her sheltered life, she must carry a sacred key to safety and discover her place in the resistance against an enchantress’s rule.

As Eileanan faces a dangerous royal succession, Meghan gathers rebels to challenge the enchantress controlling the throne. Reuniting separated sisters and the pieces of a magical key may determine whether the uprising restores freedom or ends in ruin.

Lachlan and Iseult have gained Eileanan’s throne, but rival factions and hostile armies threaten their reign. When a curse strikes Lachlan, Iseult must defend the kingdom while Isabeau follows a separate path toward her own uncertain destiny.

Restless at court, Finn the Cat joins a traveling group secretly working for King Lachlan. Her particular talents are needed on a mission beyond the Great Divide, where unfamiliar dangers test the companions’ courage and loyalty.

Exiled Isabeau undertakes a dangerous initiation among the mountains to discover her magical destiny. Returning home brings a new crisis when a powerful sorceress abducts royal children, leaving Isabeau to confront an enemy she may face alone.

A prophecy warns that the sea-dwelling Fairgean will unleash a devastating wave against Eileanan. Lachlan and Iseult race to prevent it while Isabeau confronts old enemies and personal wounds in a final struggle to heal the divided land.

A young count’s enchanted sleep threatens his life and sends four children searching for a cure. Pursued by the Regent’s soldiers, they must cross a dangerous forest to find the truth behind the curse and the magic that might break it.

Rhiannon faces death among the satyricorns because she has not grown horns. Capturing a winged horse offers escape, but traveling with apprentice witches draws her into threats against Eileanan and a struggle to make her companions trust her warnings.

Hoping to afford the bigger house that would let him have a dog, Ben joins his brother and a friend in searching for dragon treasure. Their spell summons real danger when a dragon kidnaps the friend’s sister and demands a rescue.

Imprisoned for murder and treason, Rhiannon is haunted by a dead queen while her winged horse waits nearby. As royal wedding preparations distract the court, warnings of necromancy go unheeded and threaten everyone caught in the unfolding intrigue.

The abduction of Eileanan’s royal heirs threatens a plot to resurrect a ruthless sorcerer. Isabeau and Cloudshadow must journey into the past, while Rhiannon risks her freedom and love to rescue a woman she considers her rival.

A magic wishing ring transports Ben, Tim and their cousins into a besieged castle filled with knights and danger. Discovering how easily wishes go wrong, the children must think carefully to escape and protect the people caught in their adventure.

Seeking the final charm needed to free their imprisoned family, Luka and Emilia travel to London. A relentless pursuer and a woman who has abandoned her heritage complicate their mission as the deadline for returning home approaches.

Luka and Emilia flee into Sussex while searching for the fourth charm that might save their family. Sheltering among fugitives and relying on a persecuted religious underground, they must find a wandering community now involved in smuggling.

After their family is imprisoned and threatened with death, Emilia Finch and her cousin Luka set out to reunite six scattered lucky charms. Their journey through Cromwell’s England promises a way to end an old curse, but each charm carries a cost.

Luka and Emilia travel to the New Forest to find a charm associated with herbs that can heal or poison. Their search brings encounters with a witch, a highwayman and a dangerous royalist plot while their family remains imprisoned.

The search for a lightning-shaped charm leads Luka and Emilia to Sussex ironworks supplying Cromwell’s forces. Its prosperous keepers have little interest in old traditions, leaving the children to negotiate familiar enemies and uncertain allies as time runs out.

Luka and Emilia seek a horse-racing family’s help in freeing their imprisoned relatives. Winning the next lucky charm may require Emilia to race and surrender her beloved mare, all while the children struggle to escape their persistent pursuer.

Ben, Tim and their cousins discover a stranded mer-boy during their beach holiday. Learning that a diver and his mechanical shark are terrorizing the mer-people, they set out to help rescue the boy’s kidnapped sister.

After discovering her family is cursed, twelve-year-old Hannah travels to her ancestral home in Scotland. Breaking the curse requires finding the pieces of a puzzle ring and venturing back to the dangerous final days of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Three young people from rival communities must travel together to rescue an imprisoned princess whose words can alter reality. Her captors have silenced her, but the power of her voice may change the world they are struggling to save.

Prince Peregrine’s mixed heritage makes him a hope for peace and a target for a usurping queen. Fleeing a siege with two companions, he searches for a legendary spear while a relentless hunter and hidden betrayal threaten the journey.

Banished from Versailles, Charlotte-Rose de la Force hears a nun’s tale of a girl imprisoned in a tower. Their stories intertwine with that of a Venetian courtesan in a retelling of Rapunzel shaped by desire, danger and magic.

Growing up beside the Grimm family during Napoleon’s occupation, Dortchen Wild shares the fairy tales that will help make the brothers famous. Her love for Wilhelm faces poverty, war and the control of a father determined to keep them apart.

Agoraphobic Sara has spent five years inside her family home, dominated by her artist father’s volatile personality. When he is found injured beneath a cliff, the mystery surrounding his fall forces long-buried family secrets into the open.

After attackers enslave the people of Wolfhaven Castle, four young survivors undertake a quest to awaken legendary warriors. Finding the magical ingredients required by an ancient prophecy means facing creatures and dangers for which none of them is prepared.

Fleeing Lord Mortlake, Tom, Quinn, Elanor and Sebastian follow a unicorn into the Witchwood. A blind witch offers help, but the children must decide whether to trust her while searching for creatures essential to saving Wolfhaven.

Having gathered the final ingredient of an ancient prophecy, four young companions return to Wolfhaven. They search the castle’s crypts for the sleeping warriors who could save their people, racing to complete the spell before the dark moon rises.

Escaping their pursuers, the four young companions continue south in search of magical creatures. While Sebastian and Elanor seek aid at Crowthorne Castle, Tom and Quinn enter a mysterious moor where a dangerous beast awaits.

To save her father in Nazi Germany, Ava marries an officer she fears and distrusts. Joining the resistance while concealing her activities from him draws her into a dangerous double life, complicated by love and his own hidden loyalties.

With most of their quest completed, Quinn, Sebastian, Elanor and Tom still need a sea-serpent’s scale. Their journey to a submerged kingdom brings new dangers and revelations about the events that drove them from Wolfhaven.

Kate Forsyth traces the development of Rapunzel through folklore, literary history and her own creative work. Essays examine the imprisoned heroine’s changing meanings and explain how research into the tale shaped Forsyth’s historical novel Bitter Greens.

Four women connected to the Pre-Raphaelite artists reveal the relationships behind Edward Burne-Jones’s Sleeping Beauty paintings. Their intertwined lives expose the love, artistic ambition, betrayal and personal costs concealed within the movement’s celebrated images.

Co-written with Kate Forsyth, this collection gathers seven original stories linked by folklore, history, and a mysterious well in the English countryside. The tales range across centuries, but each one turns on love, fear, loss, and magic.

Through stories of her ancestors, Kate Forsyth traces a family’s experiences in Australia, from a dangerous ocean crossing to wars and campaigns for civil rights. The illustrated book connects major historical changes with the memories passed between generations.

A marquis’s daughter and a gardener fall in love as revolution transforms France. Their story reaches from the Terror to imperial China, where a quest for an extraordinary rose becomes entangled with the obstacles separating them.

Seven retold fairy tales follow young women confronting dangerous enchantments, captivity and impossible demands. Their courage, resourcefulness and determination guide stories drawn from several traditions, including a stolen moon, transformed brothers and a contest of wits with a ruler.

These retold fairy tales follow young women who confront difficult trials through courage, kindness and ingenuity. Rather than centering rescue or royal marriages, the stories explore heroines learning to trust themselves and influence the world around them.

Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell investigate the life of their ancestor Charlotte Waring Atkinson, Australia’s first published children’s author. Family history reveals her artistic work, struggles for independence and legal battle to retain custody of her children.

Young women overcome danger through compassion in these retellings of lesser-known fairy tales from Germany, Slovenia, Ireland and Scottish Traveller traditions. The collection places kindness at the center of its heroines’ strength and their ability to change their circumstances.

This collection retells little-known fairy tales about young men whose strength lies in kindness and compassion. Stories from several cultures follow heroes who help others and confront danger without relying on dominance, wealth or the pursuit of power.

In occupied Crete, Alenka hides two Australian soldiers while her Nazi-supporting brother watches her closely. Both men fall in love with her, and their work with the resistance tests friendship, family loyalty and her ability to decide whom to trust.

Gifted healer Psykhe angers Venus and loses the life her family knew. Falling in love with a mysterious man she is forbidden to see draws her into a dangerous struggle with the gods and a journey to the underworld.