Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
core novel 2023 Emily Wilde
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.95 (234,067 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 352 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593500156 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, the first novel in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde series, is set in 1909 and follows Emily Wilde, a Cambridge dryadologist and one of the foremost scholars of faerie lore, as she travels with her dog, Shadow, to the remote, snowbound village of Hrafnsvik in the fictional Nordic country of Ljosland. There she intends to research the local Hidden Ones for what would be the world's first comprehensive faerie encyclopaedia, working in relative isolation suited to her brilliant but socially awkward temperament. Her solitary fieldwork is complicated by the unexpected arrival of Wendell Bambleby, a charming and secretive academic rival from Cambridge who inserts himself into her research.
Where it sits
- Universe: Emily Wilde
- Series: Emily Wilde core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Heather Fawcett
Notes
- From the series record (Emily Wilde): Three-book trilogy in settled internal chronology, complete with the 2025 publication of its final volume.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Emily Wilde: position 1 of 3: next Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (2024)
Sources
- Series-order listing: Emily Wilde
- Book review: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710243/emily-wildes-encyclopaedia-of-faeries-by-heather-fawcett/
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