EMMA HINDS ANNOUNCES DEBUT YA NOVEL: WITCHLORE

We are delighted to share the news that Emma Hinds will be releasing her debut YA title Witchlore in Autumn 2025. The book was sold in to Usborne in the UK and was pre-empted by Wednesday Books in the US in a significant six-figure deal.

Emma, who’s debut adult fiction novel, The Knowing, was published earlier this year, is going from strength to strength after it was selected as the Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. Witchlore marks Emma's entry into the YA world. Speaking on her decision to write for Young Adults, Emma said: "Witchlore is exactly the type of story I needed as a teenager: magical and queer. I truly hope it helps young people in my community feel seen and represented.”?

Witchlore tells the story of non-binary shapeshifter Orlando “Lando” Southerns, who loses, and is then blamed for the death of the girl that they love. Shunned by everyone at college and with the rumours still flying, Lando seems to have nowhere to turn. But then Lando meets Bastian, an attractive new transfer student who makes an irresistible proposition: that together they resurrect Elizabeth using a spell from a legendary shapeshifter grimoire, The Witchlore of Bodies. All they need is the grimoire itself, a few magical tokens they’ll have to steal from boggarts, selkies and hellhounds…and a shapeshifter’s blood. What could possibly go wrong?

Keep your eyes peeled for Witchlore's spellbinding release next Autumn!