It is 1808. In Great Britain King George's health is precarious. Magic is struggling against science. Searching for a purpose in life, the Elfin gentleman Sir Auberon LaFaye discovers radical politics, then falls in love with the desperately ill Princess Amelia. Mrs Constantia Priddy and her unshakeably practical friend Miss Pertinacia Goodwill are on a frantic mission: to find Conny’s lost husband who has been taken by fairies, and prevent a disastrous royal elopement. But if the Princess elopes, and saves her life, King George could be sent mad, again. Then Edward Priddy is released from fairy imprisonment — into the wrong century. Can Constantia find Edward in time to expose the scandalous truth about the Princess’s Elfin lover?A sparkling novel of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Elfins and Georgette Heyer’s Regency manners.

Kate Macdonald is the author of The Shetland Witch (2o24) and Stories from The Shetland Witch (2024), and lives in Malvern in the UK. Her SFF short fiction has been published many magazines since 2019. Radical Magic is her second novel.