Ghosts linger amid the fields and streets of England, waiting to be summoned by those who can walk their paths. Paul is one of the walkers, returned home to follow in a friend’s last footsteps and learn how he died. But the land is a place of conflict, caught between connection and control. To find peace, Paul will have to confront his own past and other people’s power, in a poignant tale of grief, justice, and walking your own path.

My novella Walking a Wounded Land is out now!

A contemporary fantasy about walking and our connection to the land, it’s part of the Wiz Duos series from Wizard’s Tower Press. These are books that combine two novellas by different authors, so you get two stories for the price of one. Mine sits alongside Ruthanna Emrys’s The Sheltering Flame, a magical story about found family and people taking care of one another, which I’d be recommending even if we didn’t share a cover. Together, the two stories explore topics of landscape, power, and dissent, all through the medium of fantasy.

I’m delighted to be published by Wizard’s Tower, who publish one of my favourite series, Juliet E. McKenna’s Green Man, and who have been a key part of the British sffh scene for years. The book launched at World Fantasy Con 2025, with a well-attended launch event and a reading in the evening, which would have gone a lot smoother if not for a wedding disco next door! And it seems to be going down well with readers…

“Two gorgeously written novellas exploring the ways that our connections to the land and to each other can be broken but also mended, these stories tell of bargains and sacrifices, and ultimately of hopeful futures.” – Sarah Brooks, author of The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands

“Beautiful and haunting.” – Anna Smith Spark, author of A Sword of Bronze and Ashes

“A story that reminds us of the permanence of dreams and the determination of the human spirit. You’ll never walk Britain’s pathways the same again.” – Charlotte Bond, author of The Fireborne Blade

“Beautiful in cadence, powerful in imagery, gentle in spirit, Andrew Knighton’s work takes your heart’s ghosts on dances of things lost.” — Danie Ware, author of the Ecko trilogy

If that’s whetted your appetite, more information and bookshop links can be found here.

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