Frances Hardinge

When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt....

On Gullstruck Island, legend has it that the mountain ranges and volcanoes are in charge. Anger them, and you’ll pay the price. Keep them happy, and you’ll enjoy their protection. These stories of the land’s command come in handy for quiet, near-invisible Hathin....

From award-winning author Frances Hardinge comes a dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace....

Fly by Night is the stunningly original, fabulously inventive debut novel packed with humour and wit from the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge....

Set in England after World War I, this is a brilliantly creepy but ultimately loving story of the relationship between two sisters who must band together against a world where nothing is as it seems....

In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare....

Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. But inside, Faith is full of questions....

In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer....

On the island of Merlank, the Dead must not be allowed to linger. The very sight of their ghosts can kill you. When young Milo is thrust into the role of Ferryman following his father’s sudden death, he is the one who must carry away the Dead.

A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace shares her aristocratic family's hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts....

One evening, Ryan and his friends steal some coins from a well. Soon after, strange things begin to happen. Peculiar burn marks appear on Ryan’s knuckles and light bulbs mysteriously explode. Then the well witch appears, with her fountains for eyes and gargled demands....

Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are at it again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, a strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price....

Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree....

Kellen does not fully understand his unique gift, but helps those who are cursed, like his friend Nettle who was trapped in the body of a bird for years. She is now Kellen's constant companion and his closest ally....

For centuries the gods of the Undersea ruled the islands of the Myriad through awe and terror: they were very real, and very dangerous....

Twelve-year-old Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts which try to possess her in the night, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard....

A beautiful world-building novel from the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge....

Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price....

Mosca Mye has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom...

One evening, Ryan and his friends steal some coins from a well....