Fantasy Fiction inspired by Celtic and British Folklore
Explore enchanting Celtic and British folklore-inspired fantasy fiction with our curated list of books. Dive into mythical tales, legendary heroes, and magical realms rooted in ancient traditions.
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The Paradise War
by Steve Lawhead
While doing graduate work in Celtic studies at Oxford Lewis Gillies goes off in search of his roommate, Simon, who fell through a cairn into the land of the Tuatha de Danann, and finds himself playing roles within important Celtic mythology.
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The Stolen Child
by Keith Donohue
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood that moves from small-town America deep into the forest of humankind's most basic desires and fears. • "Utterly absorbing ... a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity." —The Washington Post “I am a changeling—a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own....” The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he becomes, like them, unaging and stuck in time. They leave one of their own to take his place, an imposter who must try–with varying success–to hide his true identity from the Day family. As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world.