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....

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....

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....

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....

This original middle-grade fantasy from acclaimed author Frances Hardinge follows a girl who must venture through the ravenous, dangerous Forest that has overtaken her world to save her community. Multiple starred reviews! "Sumptuous worldbuilding and deft plotting make for a harrowing dystopian...

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

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....

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....

THE ISLAND OF WHISPERS HOLDS MANY SECRETS … 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...

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....

In the tradition of truly fantastic storytelling, Verdigris Deep is a darkly witty, utterly creepy and clever novel by Frances Hardinge, author of The Lie Tree. Verdigris n. a blue-green rust that tarnishes ageing and forgotten copper coins, altering them entirely . . . One evening, Ryan and his...