The Teller of Small Fortunes: the most cosy, heart-warming, and comforting fantasy

Paperback Published on: 16/10/2025
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The Teller of Small Fortunes
From small fortunes come great things.
Absolutely delightful storytelling, with all the warmth, charm and heart that cosy fantasy deserves. Tao is a teller of small fortunes that finds family ... READ MORE
Chrys - Plymouth
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A comforting cosy adventure that let’s you journey far and wide
This book bunches together a group of extremely likeable characters - Tao - a fortune teller running from family troubles, Mash - a large but warm hearted ... READ MORE
Beth at Birmingham
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A stunning cover with an equally stunning read.
Cosy and well-crafted, this book has everything I needed for a delightful read. It brilliantly balances the found family narrative with a discussion on ide... READ MORE
Lucy at Leeds
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Cosy fantasy at its finest!
This was a really wonderful cosy fantasy, as we follow Tao the (lonely) teller of small fortunes and her unlikely group of companions as they search for a ... READ MORE
Cerys at St Albans
The Teller of Small Fortunes
An incredibly warm and gently paced cozy fantasy read.
An incredibly warm and gently paced cozy fantasy read. With quests, fortunes, found family and a ragtag group of misfits finding their place in the world b... READ MORE
Kate at Chichester Waterstones
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Cosy and heartfelt.
A wonderfully sweet and cosy story of small magics and found family. A warm hug of a book perfect for fans of Legends and Lattes and You Can't Spell Treaso... READ MORE
Angie at Blackpool

Synopsis

Perfect for fans of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes, TJ Klune and Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop, The Teller of Small Fortunes is a cosy fantasy adventure about trying to find yourself - and finding family instead.
Family changes everything . . .
Tao roams the dusty countryside with only her mule for company, telling small fortunes, for small prices. Fleeing a troubled past, she knows big fortunes come with big consequences.

Until one day, when she finds herself joining a desperate search for a lost child. Alongside an ex-mercenary, a (semi) reformed thief, an overly enthusiastic baker and a slightly magical cat, Tao will need to risk everything to save the family she never thought she'd have.

Can her walls finally break down, or will the shadows of her past close in?

From Sunday Times bestselling author Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes is a heart-warming cosy fantasy featuring endless baked goods, a travelling cat, unexpected friendships and an abundance of found family.

Readers love it:
'Reading it is like a nice little warm hug in a book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A cozy fantasy with a positive and uplifting message' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'An adorable read that will have you attached to each and every character' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Comforting as a bowl of hot soup on a cold wet day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I giggled and sniffled my way through this book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9781399729062
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm
  • Weight: 244g
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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The Teller of Small Fortunes
A delightful, magnificently structured cozy fantasy
A story with likeable, authentic characters, a gentle plot/conflict, excellent commentary on ex-pat experience, a healing theme, and delicious baked goods…... READ MORE
Kate ♡
The Teller of Small Fortunes
just a delight
this book was an absolute delight to read! I had been in a slump where i'd read 4 disappointing/unreadable books in a row, and i just needed something to ... READ MORE
erica cochrane
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Cozy Fantasy
The Teller of Small Fortunes is a beautifully written, cozy, light fantasy and I loved every second. I don't really know what else to say about it, except ... READ MORE
Liv Burrell
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The year of cosy fantasy continues
My favourite "cosy fantasy" book so far. Even for readers not already into cosy fantasy, I think 'The Teller of Small Fortunes' would be a great entry-poin... READ MORE
@anastasiamakes
This reviewer received a free of charge product for review.
The Teller of Small Fortunes
An incredibly warm and gently paced cozy fantasy read.
An incredibly warm and gently paced cozy fantasy read. With quests, fortunes, found family and a ragtag group of misfits finding their place in the world b... READ MORE
Kate at Chichester Waterstones
The Teller of Small Fortunes
This book felt like sitting by a campfire with your friends, roasting marshmallows and exchanging life stories together!!
I loved this book! It made me smile the whole way through and I honestly couldn't have hoped for a better book than this!! Found family, low stakes, fun an... READ MORE
Eli CL
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Heartwarming, Cozy Fantasy
This was the perfect cozy fantasy for me. Immigrant MC, found family, D&D-like questing, magical cats...couldn't have asked for more. Just the heartwarming... READ MORE
Yuofong Amato
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A cosy comforting read
Title: The Teller of Small Fortunes Author: Julie Leong Pages: 336 Rating: 5/5 Oh my gosh what a cosy beautiful comforting read. This was just a bi... READ MORE
Emily Smith
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Delightful!
This was the most delightfully adorable book I've read in a long, long time. I loved the slightly mysterious storyline, the charming characters and the ... READ MORE
Ania
The Teller of Small Fortunes
so cozy and sweet, but also thoughtful
Does telling a fortune twist destiny? Tao, a traveling 'teller of small fortunes' worries her gift could bring what she sees into being. Her fears, along... READ MORE
Bryanna M
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Delightful
I read an eARC of this book on NetGalley so thank you to the author and publisher. What a wonderful charming, wonderful and wholesome book! It features ... READ MORE
Jennifer Charlton
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A lovely cosy debut!
'We're not always cheerful and funny. We've sadness and anxiety, and all these other bitter things wrapped up inside, too, and that's what makes the sweetn... READ MORE
Jennifer Shelton
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A slow, if sweet fantasy
This was a book that the whole of Booktok seems to have been describing as the perfect cozy, found family fantasy. Maybe that meant that I got my hopes up ... READ MORE
Madison Pollard-Shore
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Adorable cosy found family fantasy
Official rating ~ 3.5 It’s an absolutely adorable tale with the sweetest characters but it was all too perfect & too cosy. And even when there was dang... READ MORE
PigginDani_reads
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The perfect cosy fantasy read!
The Teller of Small Fortunes had me hooked from the very beginning. This was such a beautiful, cozy read which made me laugh and cry as I followed Tao and ... READ MORE
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The Teller of Small Fortunes
So cosy!
Such a fantastic book! Cosy and delightful and there's fortune telling and baking and found family and oh I loved it so much!!
Katie Bruce
The Teller of Small Fortunes
A Warm Hug!
Following Tao, a travelling immigrant who tells small fortunes from her wagon to bring amusement and peace to those she comes across. As the story develops... READ MORE
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