Funny, surprising and fantastical, with an unforgettable cast of characters, 'Fly By Night' contains at its heart an inspiring truth - that the power of books can change the world.

With suspicion and peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a shocking plot to force a rule of terror on the people of the Realm, and all too soon merry mayhem leads to murder.

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. Her debut novel, Fly By Night, won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books. But the city is in uproar, for someone is once again printing seditious material and no one is quite what they seem. DESCRIPTION : Fly By Night is the stunning debut novel from Frances Hardinge, author of the Costa Award winning The Lie Tree. Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British childrens writer. Mosca Mye’s father insisted on teaching her to readeven in a world where books are dangerous, regulated. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. With Eponymous Clent, a smooth-tongued swindler, she heads for the city of Mandelion, living by her wits among highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers, secret agents and radical plotters. Format: PaperbackCondition: New with remainder markGenre: Young Adult > FantasyLiterary Awards: Branford Boase Award (2006)Everybody knew that books were. Discover a world where words have untold power in this thrilling fantasy adventure from award-winning author Frances Hardinge Everybody knew that books were dangerous.

Now he is dead, and Mosca is on the run, in search of a better life. Mosca Mye has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a large and homicidal goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a revolution.

Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge