An old favourite and a new name to us here at BF as Avery Hill announce Donya Todd’s The Witch’s Egg and Karenza Sparks’ The Corus Wave. Great to see new Donya Todd work after far too long! Details in the press release below.
Avery Hill Publishing is proud to announce their graphic novel releases for autumn 2025!
The Witch’s Egg
Donya Todd
Out 10th October 2025
180 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 168 x 239mm
Witches and angels aren’t allowed to have children. When Urfi defies this, it’ll take her life’s work to make it right.
It was a spiderweb moon And the imps did wonder
What dark delights wouldst the cat-witch conjure
By the Sardine Queen, by salt and the devil, by blackwormy earth, and by the deep, dark sea, the catwitch Urfi conjures an angel to love her and have children with her. But angels aren’t meant for love, and with the embryonic egg of their unborn children, Urfi flees from her partner’s violence, enduring terrible trials to find a new and safe home in the faery forest.
As her children, Isobel, Batzel, and Mazel, grow up with her, they find the horrors their mother endured during her flight to the forest returning to their lives — this time for the three of them to defeat for good. With secret magic, solemn bonds of friendship, and sisterhood, they can at last stand against the threat of the angels’ terror and insanity in this dark fairytale of motherhood, magic, and apocalyptic romance.
A gorgeous intergenerational family story of promises made, promises kept, and a mother who would do anything to protect her daughters.
The Corus Wave
Karenza Sparks
Out 21st October 2025
144 pages, paperback, black & white, 168 x 239mm
Adventures . . . and finishing her thesis . . . await Lorelei as she’s plunged into an exploration of the mysteries in England’s fossil history in this graphic novel caper.
Lorelei is just trying to finish her BA thesis. Then her research into an obscure star- shaped Devonian-era cephalopod fossil drags her into a scavenger hunt that indicates her subject may be hiding some of the central secrets of the universe. Or at least, that’s what 19th century polymath Havius Corus thought.
Careening through libraries, churches, botanical gardens, and stone circles with her roommate Eddie (and their trusty cat Raisin, who travels with them via backpack), Lorelei explores the puzzles and the mysteries the polymath has hidden from the world. . . unseen in the architecture and the nature all around her.
Can Lorelei find the solutions to the secrets of fossil history? And will her thesis advisor think her hard work is a legitimate dissertation topic? Lorelei, Eddie, and Raisin are on the case!
