Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright and bestselling author. Her debut novel The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Award's Children's Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Jhalak Prize, the Branford Boase Award and the Little Rebels Prize.
Her second novel, The Island at the End of Everything, was released in April 2017, and has been longlisted for the UKLA awards. Her fourth poetry collection, OE, a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice in collaboration with the artist Tom de Freston, was published by Bloomsbury in October 2017.
Kiran lives by the river in Oxford with her husband, Tom, and their cat, Luna.
Authored Books
The Way Past Winter
Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher: Chicken House
Mila lives alone with her sisters and brother in a land where a harsh winter came the year her father disappeared. When her brother vanishes too, Mila sets out on a dangerous journey. A thrilling adventure with the feel of a beautiful modern-day fairytale.
The Girl of Ink and Stars
Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher: Chicken House
When her closest friend disappears into the island's Forgotten Territories, Isabella Riosse volunteers to guide the search. A stunning debut, full of myth, magic and mapmaking.
The Island at the End of Everything
Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher: Chicken House
Amihan lives happily on the island of Culion in the Phillipines with her mother, her Nanay, who has leprosy, and in a wider community where some people are "touched" with the disease, and some are not.