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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meets Frankenstein by the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree.
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The gods are dead, but their remains are stirring beneath the waves . . . The story of a friendship as deep and dangerous as the ocean by the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree.
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The stunning story of a young girl's quest to shape her own destiny from the author of The Lie Tree, winner of the Costa Book Award 2015
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Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.' Patrick Ness
The thrilling sequel to Frances Hardinge's debut novel Fly By Night, Twilight Robbery is a fast-paced and imaginative adventure.
Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster b...y 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. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, it's the haunt of rogues and villains. Wherever there's a plot, there's sure to be treachery, and wherever there's treachery, there's sure to be trouble - and where there's trouble, Clent, Mosca and the web-footed apocalypse Saracen the goose can't be far behind. But as past deeds catch up with them and old enemies appear, it looks as if this time there's no way out . . .
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Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.' Patrick Ness
Fly By Night is a breathtaking adventure story, set in reimagined eighteenth-century England, and is the stunning debut 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 and her loyal companion, a grumpy goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca Mye 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 by Frances Hardinge 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.
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The stunning story of a young girl's quest to shape her own destiny from the author of The Lie Tree, winner of the Costa Prize 2015
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One evening, Ryan and his friends steal some coins from a well. Soon after, strange things begin to happen. Peculiar marks burn on Ryan's knuckles and light bulbs mysteriously explode. Then the well witch appears, with her fountains for eyes and gargled demands. From now on the c...hildren must serve her - and the wishes rotting at the bottom of her well.
In the tradition of truly fantastic story-telling, Verdigris Deep is darkly witty, utterly creepy and clever.
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The stunning story of a young girl's quest to shape her own destiny from the author of The Lie Tree, winner of the Costa Prize 2015
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One of our finest storytellers,' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent This macabre YA adventure, with a touch of Lovecraftian steampunk, features underwater exploration, monsters of the deep, relic-based technology and questions of loyalty. The gods are dead. About fifty year...s ago they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why.In an alternative world, fifty years after the death of the gods, a fifteen-year-old boy, Hark, finds the still beating heart of a terrifying deity and uses it to try to save his best friend. Hark risks everything to keep the heart out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists and secret fanatical cults, to try to use it to sustain the life of his best friend, who is gradually and eerily transforming. But how long should someone stay loyal to a friend who is himself becoming a monster?
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| ISBN |
9781760789152 |
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Read in Browser or Adobe Ebook Compatible Device |
| Language |
en |
| Released NZ |
29 Oct 2019 |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
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On Gullstruck Island the volcanoes quarrel, beetles sing danger and occasionally a Lost is born... In the village of the Hollow Beasts live two sisters. Arilou is a Lost - a child with the power to depart her body and mind-fly with the winds - and Hathin is her helper. Together t...hey hide a dangerous secret. Until sinister events threaten to uncover it. With a blue-skinned hunter on their trail and a dreadlocked warrior beside them, they must escape. Can the fate of two children decide the future of Gullstruck Island?
Discover a dazzling world, a breathtaking heroine... and an incredible adventure!
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