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Frances Hardinge

February 2021

  • Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys

    'Outstanding' Carnegie medal longlist includes three previous winners

    Previous winners Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys up for prestigious children’s book award, with loss a common theme

October 2019

  • The 1979 adaptation of Salem’s Lot.

    'I was so scared I took it back to the library': the books that scare horror authors

    Anne Rice explains why she’s too frightened to finish Dracula, Lauren Beukes recalls a horrifying graphic novel and others share their most haunting reads
  • Frances Hardinge.

    Deeplight by Frances Hardinge review – a rich and strange island adventure

    Loyalties and self-interest collide as two best friends unleash the secrets of the sea gods
  • Underwater fantasy features in Frances Hardinge’s novel Deeplight.

    Young adult books roundup – reviews

    Frances Hardinge and Liz Hyder create rich worlds, while Holly Bourne explores toxic love

September 2018

  • A version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s map by Monro Orr in 1934

    Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

    From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps

October 2017

  • Frances Hardinge

    My writing day
    Frances Hardinge: ‘I can try axe-throwing or canoeing and it could be research’

    The Costa award-winning author of The Lie Tree on why she has Nerf guns in her study and how the writing life is both isolating and liberating

September 2017

  • Frances Hardinge

    A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge review – darkly splendid mystery

  • FRANCES HARDINGE COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER<br>Author Frances Hardinge, whose book The Lie Tree won Costa Book of the Year, in London on Wednesday, January 27, 2016. Photograph: © Frantzesco Kangaris

    Children's book of the week
    A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge review – spooky English civil war mystery

July 2016

  • summer books illustration by oivind hovland

    Best holiday reads 2016

  • Children's books
    A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge - review

June 2016

  • Frances Hardinge

    On my radar
    On my radar: Frances Hardinge’s cultural highlights

    The award-winning children’s author on partying with dryads and goblins, Victorian crime and watching the transit of Mercury
  • Stars of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley, Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger and Cherrelle Skeete as Rose Granger-Weasley.

    Children’s authors’ debt to JK Rowling: ‘She brought back storytelling’

    As Harry Potter and the Cursed Child hits the West End, five writers reveal how Rowling changed their field
  • YALC Malorie Selfie

    Children's books
    Yalc 2016: who's on and what's happening?

    Want to get a sneak peek at your favourite authors’ teen diaries? Or compete to win the House Cup at a Harry Potter party? Take part in a teen poetry slam? All possible at this year’s Young Adult Literature Convention - we unveil the schedule here!

May 2016

  • Children's books
    The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge – review

    Melrose: ‘I felt enveloped by the dense words and was transported into Faith’s peculiar 19th century world’

  • Children's books
    Mystery and Mayhem by The Crime Club – review

    BookieCookie: ‘All twelve short stories had original plots and the characters were believable and enviable in their ability to solve murder plots in less than 30 pages!’
  • Barack Obama, Michelle Obama<br>President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama make claw hands and monster faces while reading, "Where The Wild Things Are," during White House Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2016. Thousands of children gathered at the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll. This year's event features live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling, and Easter egg rolling. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Children's books
    Top 10 children’s and YA books that adults can learn from

    Is the adult in your life stuck? Author Kiran Millwood Hargrave recommends books you can suggest that they read to open their minds

March 2016

  • Young woman whispering secret into friend's ear

    Children's books
    Undercover plots: the YA novels with secrets at their heart

    Secrets have the power to knock you off your feet, to utterly fascinate you or chill you to your very bones. Don’t you just want to know everyone’s secrets?
  • Who can we expect to see with Malorie Blackman at YALC 2016? Find out here!

    Children's books
    Which authors are going to be at Young Adult Literature Convention (Yalc) 2016?

    YA stars David Levithan, Maggie Stiefvater and Costa Book of the Year winner Frances Hardinge join Malorie Blackman at Yalc 2016. Find out which of your favourite YA authors will be there
  • Patrick Ness

    Children's books
    Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway shortlists 2016 announced

    Patrick Ness and Chris Riddell are up for hat tricks again this year. Discover all the shortlisted writers and illustrators for the 2016 medals – how many books on the shortlist have you read?

February 2016

  • Costa Book Of The Year Awards<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 26: Frances Hardinge attends Costa Book Of The Year Awards on January 26, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Luca Teuchmann/Getty Images)

    Books blog
    A bad year for men at the book awards

    Frances Hardinge’s Costa success tops off a great year for female authors as diversity rules at the book awards
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