Frances Hardinge

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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.... 

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....

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

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