TRAITOR'S MAGIC

Traitor's Magic - Book Cover
Two young rivals. One chance to learn magic.

Snobbish Haskell and fierce, determined Agatha couldn't be more different, but they both want the same thing: to impress the wizard Titus and become his apprentice.

The two soon learn there's more to the wizard and his magic than they could have imagined, and that locked inside the castle's library are secrets worth lying, stealing – and even dying – for.

But Haskell and Agatha aren't the only ones who want to get inside…
A twisty tale of dangerous sorcery and the power of unexpected friendship.

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Hi, I'm Henry. I live in Edinburgh and write middle grade fiction.

I'm one of the 2024 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices and also one of the 2023 Scottish Book Trust New Writer Awardees.

As well as the SCBWI and Book Trust awards, I've been shortlisted and longlisted in other competitions including The Times/Chickenhouse Prize, The Bath Children's Novel Award, Wells Book For Children, The Exeter Novel Prize and The WriteMentor Novel Award. Some of them more than once.

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October 2026

Bookseller Top Ten

If you open a copy of this week’s Bookseller you’ll see me staring back at you next Hannah Gold as we’ve both been picked out as top ten preview titles for January 2027. This is a very new thing for me, probably much less so for Hannah Gold.

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October 2026

Book Deal!!!

I’m delighted to announced that Traitor’s Magic will be published by Walker in January 2027.

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