Hemlock & Silver
core novel 2025 Hemlock & Silver
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.01 (43,372 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250342034 |
Synopsis
Hemlock & Silver, published in 2025, is a fantasy novel by T. Kingfisher that reworks motifs from the Snow White fairy tale. Anja is a healer who regularly tests poisons herself in search of cures and antidotes, a practice that has made her something of an outcast. She is summoned by a king whose queen and sister-in-law, Rose, have already died under mysterious circumstances, and who now fears that his surviving daughter, Snow, is being slowly poisoned as well. Accompanied by her guard Javier and aided by Snow's unusual talking cat, Grayling, Anja begins investigating the household and soon discovers evidence of a hidden world connected to a magic mirror, where a being calling itself the Mirror Queen has emerged from the dead queen's blood and is manipulating Snow from within the glass, drawing Anja into a mystery that reaches beyond the poison itself.
Where it sits
- Universe: Hemlock & Silver
- Series: Hemlock & Silver core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. Kingfisher
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2026: finalist; 3rd place (tie) in the 2026 Locus reader poll, per the no-cutoff Locus-poll convention. The award body's own full ballot page could not be reached directly; registered on two independent cross-checks (sfadb's per-author record and Wikipedia's own dedicated article) that agree on a finalist placement, plus direct confirmation the actual winner was a different book (Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting), ruling out a false 'won' claim.
Notes
- From the series record (Hemlock & Silver): One continuous standalone novel; no internal volume structure.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Hemlock & Silver
- Rating-platform listing: Hemlock & Silver
- sfadb: T. Kingfisher Awards
- SFFWorld: 2026 Locus Awards Winners Announced
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