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A Skinful of Shadows is a 2017 children's or young adults' paranormal historical fiction novel by Frances Hardinge. Her seventh novel, it revolves around Makepeace Felmotte, a girl with the inherited ability to see and absorb ghosts. It is set during the First English Civil War, and in particular the Siege of Oxford. The book was received ...
Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel , Fly by Night , won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books. She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories .
The novel is set in the fictional country of Raddith, which is divided between normal human settlements inland and the mystical marsh-woods that borders the coastline. . These marsh-woods are known as the "Wilds" and are inhabited by supernatural creatures, such as the Little Brothers, small arachnid-like creatures that sometimes offer "curse eggs" to humans, which bestow the ability to curse ...
Cuckoo Song is a children's or young adults' fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on 8 May 2014 by Macmillan in the UK, and by Abrams Amulet in the USA. It won the 2015 Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel, [1] and was short-listed for the 2015 Carnegie Medal.
Gullstruck Island, (also known as The Lost Conspiracy) was written by Frances Hardinge and published on 1 June 2009. It was the fourth fantasy book written by Frances Hardinge. Summary
Horseheads-based Hardinge Inc. confirmed it will be closing its Super-Precision Division as of Aug. 9, resulting in 31 employees losing their jobs. Hardinge Inc. layoffs confirmed as company files ...
Fly by Night is a children's or young adults' fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on 7 October 2005 by Macmillan in the UK and on 25 April 2006 by HarperCollins in the US. Fly by Night won the Branford Boase Award in 2006, [ 1 ] and was listed in the School Library Journal 's Best Books of 2006. [ 2 ]
In the fictional island chain of the Myriad, the inhabitants worshiped and revered enormous sea creatures referred to as 'gods' that fed on human fear from a source below the sea known as the Undersea. 30 years before the events of the book, the gods all turned on each other and tore each other apart in a disaster known as the Cataclysm, and the remnants of their bodies are now used as high ...