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In a broken-down medieval kingdom where reading is forbidden, 12-year-old Mosca Mye is drawn to a traveling con artist who "brought phrases as vivid and strange as spices, and he smiled as he spoke, ...

Fiona Noble is the former Children's & YA Previews Editor of The Bookseller. Frances Hardinge’s eccentric backlist takes another unusual turn with a tale of the legacy of warring sea gods. Fiona Noble ...

She’s found her niche writing stories as dark as the black hat she always wears, it’s no surprise she’d always been intrigued by books that have a bit of “malice and danger”. Not only did she play ...

"It does sort of feel like the world's just discovered your secret, doesn't it?" young adult author Patrick Ness tweeted this morning in relation to his fellow YA author, Frances Hardinge, winning the ...

The author of the Costa Book of the Year has urged readers to explore fictional books written for young adults and children. Frances Hardinge's Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree is only the second ...

Children's author Frances Hardinge has won the 2015 Costa Book of the Year for her supernatural tale The Lie Tree. Hailed by judges as 'a fantastic story', the Victorian detective novel is the first ...

Frances Hardinge's children's novel, The Lie Tree, has been named the Costa Book of the Year. It marks the second time a children's novel has won the prize. Philip Pullman's children's novel The Amber ...

The Costa Book Awards are annual literary awards recognising books written in English by writers based in the UK and Ireland. The winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2105 was Frances Hardinge ...

Frances Hardinge urges readers to explore fiction written for young adults and children A children's novel has been named Costa Book of the Year for only the second time in the prize's history. The ...

Children’s author Frances Hardinge began writing when she was 13, determined to do so until "published or until she dropped dead." Seven books later she’s still alive, says Jonathan deBurca Butler ...