blog – Kai Ash

The Boy Maeve is coming soon! / Tha The Boy Maeve a’ tighinn a dh’aithghearr!

Post author By kaiash
Post date 23 December 2025

The front cover of The Boy Maeve showing a red-headed white boy kneeling on the ground holding a dirk as flames sprout from his skin and three black birds circle above him.

He only knows two things for sure: his name is Maeve and he’s a boy.

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I am very excited to announce that The Boy Maeve will be coming to a bookshop near you in June 2026! It also has a brilliant new cover design by Janelle Barone.

Find out more on Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing’s website.

A first post

Post author By kaiash
Post date 2 May 2023

A coloured illustration from an old fairy tale showing a troll sitting by a closed doorway into a mountain. Perhaps they are guarding it. There are two vast tree trunks framing either side of the image. — “Bergaporten” [Mountain Gate], by John Bauer (1918), taken from Wikimedia Commons.