New Releases by Frances Hardinge

A Face Like Glass is an astonishing and imaginative novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge. 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, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show joy, despair or fear – at a price. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell''s emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, though entirely genuine. And that makes her very dangerous indeed . . . ''Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.'' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

Collection includes two annotated typescripts and a galley proof of Frances Hardinge''s young adult novel, Cuckoo Song. The typescripts comprise an earlier and later draft of the novel and include editorial annotations. The galley proof contains editorial annotations in red ink and bears the faint remnants of earlier photocopied editorial comments.

Winner of the Branford Boase award, Fly By Night is the stunning YA fantasy novel from Frances Hardinge, author of the Costa Award winning The Lie Tree. As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan called Mosca Mye and her loyal companion, a cantankerous goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca is on the run, heading for the city of Mandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits among cut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorize the people of Mandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder . . . Fly By Night has an unforgettable cast of characters and an inspiring message at its heart – sometimes the power of words can change the world. Fly By Night is followed by its thrilling sequel, Twilight Robbery. ''Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now'' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits. Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess—one of the island''s precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded. When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world—and of herself—in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.

Ryan and his friends don''t think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who''s really going to miss a few tarnished coins? The well witch does. And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of her well. Each takes on powers they didn''t ask for and don''t want. Ryan grows strange bumps—are they eyes?—between his knuckles; Chelle starts speaking the secrets of strangers, no matter how awful and bloody; and Josh can suddenly—inexplicably—grant even the darkest of wishes, the kind of wishes that should never come true. Darkly witty, wholly unexpected, and exquisitely sinister, Frances Hardinge''s Well Witched is one well-cast tale that readers didn''t know they were wishing for.

12 år gamle Mosca Mye vokser opp i den lille byen Hosta hos en onkel som låser henne inn i mølla hver kveld. Hun er en av få som kan lese og skrive, og blir mistenkeliggjort fordi bøker anses for å være svært farlig. En dag dukker Eponym Klent opp, han er en profesjonell smigrer og notorisk løgnhals. Sammen med Eponym Kent og gassen Sarasene rømmer Mosca Mye til et liv fullt av farer og bedrag. De oppdager hemmelige forbund, kaffehus og blir innblandet i politisk maktkamp på høyt nivå. Det er akkurat en slik fortelling Mosca har drømt om å være med i, helt til hun forstår at det hun elsker mer enn alt, ordene, også kan bli hennes død. Dette er en fortelling i typisk britisk 1800-tallsstil med mye spenning og dramatikk. Fantasy for ungdomstrinnet.

Après avoir mis le feu à un moulin, Mosca la jeune orpheline s''enfuit en compagnie de son oie Sarrasin pour suivre Eponyme Cent, escroc poète et beau parleur. Ils se rendent à Mandelion, la ville d''où son père le célèbre écrivain Plumedoy avait autrefois été banni. A leur arrivée, ils découvrent que les guildes d''artisans se livrent une lutte sans merci. La jeune aventurière ne tarde pas à mettre au jour un terrible complot...