* * * 'Brilliant' - Francis Spufford * * *1620. Dorset's Jurassic Coast. A land rich in fossils. A time short on mercy.Witchcraft is a hanging crime - but there are always girls who can't fit in.Caroline. The secretive girl whirling inward. A poor fisherman's daughter with a hidden yearning for scholarship.Her little town hates her because her mother's an outsider. They don't know Ma can make shadows come to...

Jedediah's father walked out of his life forty years ago. Now he's back. He won't apologise, he doesn't explain - and, impossibly, he hasn't aged a day.'Kit Whitfield has a deep understanding of traditional fairy lore and uses it to great effect as a writer of fantasy. I loved In the Heart of Hidden Things and All the Hollow of the Sky, and look forward to her further excursions into the fairy realm' - Wendy Froud (co-creator with...

When you live next door to the People, life is never going to be simple - or safe . . .'Kit Whitfield has a deep understanding of traditional fairy lore and uses it to great effect as a writer of fantasy. I loved In the Heart of Hidden Things and All the Hollow of the Sky, and look forward to her further excursions into the fairy realm' - Wendy Froud (co-creator with Brian Froud of Trolls and Faeries' Tales, and ...

In Great Waters is a fictional history both familiar and alien.In Kit Whitfield's stunning reimagining of the world, an uneasy accord holds between the people of the land and the people of the sea. Without deepsmen guarding its shores, no nation can resist invasion - and without princes born of the royal blood, part landsman and part deepsman, no nation can maintain its allies in the ocean. The royal strain is fiercely protected, and the penalties for unauthorised breeding...

Lola Galley is used to doing things she doesn't want. She certainly doesn't want to be assigned the case of Richard Ellaway, the man who, under a cold full moon, mutilated a good friend of hers. But being a bareback, what she wants and what she gets are seldom the same.For those born feet-first, life is comfortable, and one night a month they lock themselves in a secure room to fur up in peace. Barebacks, trapped in their human skin and drafted at eighteen into the Department for t...

Jedediah's father walked out of his life forty years ago. Now he's back. He won't apologise, he doesn't explain - and, impossibly, he hasn't aged a day.If you asked the folks of Gyrford, they'd tell you Jedediah Smith looked up to his father. After all, Corbie Mackem was the Sarsen Shepherd: the man who saved the Smith clan from Ab, the terrifyingly well-meaning fey who blighted a whole generation with unwanted gifts.Corbie was a good fairy-smith. And if he...

Everyone knows that if you fall afoul of the People, you must travel the miles to Gyrford, where uncounted generations of fairy-smiths have protected the county with cold iron, good counsel and unvarnished opinions about your common sense.But shielding the weak from the strong can make enemies. Ephraim Brady has money and power, and the bitter will to hurt those who cross him. And if he can't touch elder farrier Jedediah Smith, he can harm those the Smiths care about.The Sm...