Our Book of the Week this week is another jaw-dropping novel from the author of The Lie Tree and A Skinful of Shadows:  Deeplight by Frances Hardinge. The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. But are they really gone forever? When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt.  But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he's becoming a monster — and what is Hark willing to sacrifice to save him? 
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>Stella reviews the book on the radio. 
>>Hardinge discusses Deeplight with her readers. 
>> Hardinge talks with The Sapling. 
>>Visit Frances Hardinge's Twisted City. 
>>"I enjoy the challenge of taking a particularly absurd premise, and then thinking through as many of the mundane implications as possible."
>>The Lie Tree won the Costa Book of the Year award in 2016. 
>>Other books by Frances Hardinge. 

>>We have a signed copy of the beautiful hardback edition of Deeplight to give away, courtesy of Macmillan Publishing. To go in the draw, e-mail us and tell us the name of your favourite mythological denizen of the deep.