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Holly Black

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Holly Black is an American writer and is best known for authoring The Spiderwick Chronicles. She is co-executive producer of the film which was released in Feburary 2008. She was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey in 1971 and has written five book series which have become bestsellers. Holly specialises in Children, Fantasy and Horror.

Available Books by Holly Black

Black Heart by Holly Black

Black Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780575096790
RRP: $45.00

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Black Heart by Holly Black

Black Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575096806
RRP: $29.99

The stunning conclusion to the Curseworkers series finds Cassel in the most dangerous con of all and with this life on the line he may be forced to make his biggest gamble yet... Cassel Sharpe knows he's been used as an assassin, but he's trying to put all that behind him. He's trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathi...

Red Glove by Holly Black

Red Glove
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575096776
RRP: $19.99

A changed world, an America where Magic is prohibited - Holly Black's sensational new fantasy series continues. The Sopranos meets Six Feet Under - a wonderfully dark, supernatural vision of modern day America. Cassel has discovered the dark secret of his past, the secret that set him apart from his family. Now he must take his new knowledge and his new powers out into the world. A dark and...

White Cat by Holly Black

White Cat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575096721
RRP: $19.99

The extraordinary new adult fantasy of magic in our world and the price we pay for it by the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn't a mag...

Good Neighbors 03: Kind by Holly Black

Good Neighbors 03: Kind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439855679
RRP: $16.99

Rue's world is fragmenting. The fey have taken over her city, and now the humans must share. Her grandfather is gone. Her faerie mother is triumphant. Her human father is despondent. And her boyfriend? He would rather be eaten alive by mergirls than be with Rue. Tension between the humans and faeries is growing, and Rue feels pulled in both directions. Can Rue fi x the rift between the fey and...

Spiderwick #1: Field Guide by Holly Black

Spiderwick #1: Field Guide
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780857072429
RRP: $12.99

Book 1 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory, Simon and Jared get acquainted with their new home but find many unexpected things. It all started when Jared Grace found their great uncle's book, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You" and the Grace kids realise that they are not alone in their new house. Now Mallory, Simon and Jared want to tell t...

Spiderwick #2: Seeing Stone by Holly Black

Spiderwick #2: Seeing Stone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780857072443
RRP: $12.99

Book 2 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory, Simon and Jared ask many questions and discover the fate of the missing cat. The Grace kids are just beginning to get used to Aunt Lucinda's strange old mansion when Simon suddenly disappears. At first Mallory thinks the twins are pulling some kind of prank, but when it becomes obvious that he's been snatched by goblins, Jared and his s...

Spiderwick #3: Lucinda's Secret by Holly Black

Spiderwick #3: Lucinda's Secret
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780857072436
RRP: $12.99

Ages 7 + Book 3 in the hugely popular series, The Spiderwick Chronicles. Things at the Grace residence are getting completely out of hand. As if being attacked by vile, smelly goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, now the house boggart, Thimbletack, is out to get Jared. Simon has a very hungry griffon recuperating in the carriage house, and Mallory is convinced that the on...

Spiderwick #4: Ironwood Tree by Holly Black

Spiderwick #4: Ironwood Tree
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780857072450
RRP: $12.99

Mystery, madness and mayhem are afoot in the penultimate book in the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. First a pack vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Arthur Spiderwick's Guide? And now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared, will the Grace kids finally be left alone? Don't count o...

Spiderwick #5: Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black

Spiderwick #5: Wrath of Mulgarath
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780857072467
RRP: $12.99

Twists and turns abound in the final instalment of the Spiderwick Chronicles. Bruised and battered, Jared, Simon and Mallory return home to find their house completely ransacked and discover that Mulgarath has made off with their mother and Arthur Spiderwick's Guide. It's up to the Grace kids to defeat the evil Mulgarath and his goblin army, but with only the help of Thimbletack, Hogsquea...

Red Glove by Holly Black

Red Glove
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575096769
RRP: $22.99

The Sopranos meets Six Feet Under - a wonderfully dark, supernatural vision of modern day America.Cassel has discovered the dark secret of his past, the secret that set him apart from his family. Now he must take his new knowledge and his new powers out into the world.A dark and twisting contemporary fantasy set in a beautifully rendered, subtly different world this is a wonderfully nuanced and i...

Good Neighbors #1: Kin by Holly Black

Good Neighbors #1: Kin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439855655
RRP: $16.99

Rue Silver's mother has disappeared . . . and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it's not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn't kill her mother instead, he broke a promise to Rue's faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue's mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her...

Good Neighbors: #2 Kith by Holly Black

Good Neighbors: #2 Kith
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439855662
RRP: $16.99

Rue Silver's life is not what it appears to be. Her mother is a faerie, and has been taken back to the faerie realm. As Rue goes to bring her back, she must travel deep into an inhuman world. At the same time, the faerie realm is venturing into our world too, and taking its toll on those Rue loves. When her grandfather's plans threaten Rue's city, she realises that she's the only o...

Zombies Vs Unicorns by Holly Black

Zombies Vs Unicorns
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742375502
RRP: $18.99

It's a question as old as time itself: which reigns supreme, the zombie or the unicorn? Contributors to this unique collection include bestselling teen and YA authors, Garth Nix, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson and Margo Lanagan. 'For too long, the zombie has dominated the public consciousness, but the reign of the unicorn is at hand' Team Un...

Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847393449
RRP: $22.99

Holly Black's long-awaited sequel to Tithe sees Roiben uneasy on the Unseelie throne, his tenuous hold on his subjects compounded by his relationship with a commoner -- and one raised as a human to boot. Then Kaye, drunk on faerie wine and goaded by malicious ill-wishers, makes a passionate declaration -- in public -- which makes their situation immeasurably worse. Because of it Roiben must se...

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847393432
RRP: $22.99

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell discovers her boyfriend is secretly screwing her mother, her life falls apart. Betrayed and angry, she flees to New York City, where she takes up with a feral trio who have made their home in a network of abandoned subway tunnels. She finds their friendship eerily beguiling, as they drag her deeper into their damaged world. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters ...

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 03: The Wyrm King by Holly Black

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 03: The Wyrm King
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689871337
RRP: $18.99

In the final installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way! It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra, a dragon like creature that is creating sinkholes all over Florida. But with ...

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 02: A Giant Problem by Holly Black

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 02: A Giant Problem
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689871320
RRP: $18.99

Talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire! I was pretty sure that my freaky stepsister and that freaky field guide of hers would ruin my life. But now it looks like they're going to ruin all of Florida, too! Okay, maybe that's not fair. Maybe all these stupid giants would be waking up anyway, but if it wasn't for her and that book, I'd be home playing video games and this wou...

Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847380630
RRP: $16.99

When pixie Kaye declares herself to Roiben on the day of his coronation, he is forced to send her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye is forbidden to see or speak to him unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie. Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye makes a rash decision to reveal the truth to her mother - that she is a changeling...

Spiderwick Chronicles 01: The Field Guide (Movie Tie-In Ed) by Holly Black

Spiderwick Chronicles 01: The Field Guide (Movie Tie-In Ed)
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781416950172
RRP: $18.99

'Go away close the book put it down do not look' It all begins when their great-aunt Lucinda Spiderwick is sent off to an asylum, and the Grace kids - twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory - move into her creepy old mansion with their mother. As they get acquainted with their new home they find many unexpected things. When Jared finds their great uncle's book, ...

The Spiderwick Chronicles 02: The Seeing Stone - Movie Tie-In Edition by Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles 02: The Seeing Stone - Movie Tie-In Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781416950189
RRP: $18.99

'We said no still you looked now instead someone gets cooked' In this second book, Mallory, Simon and Jared ask many questions and discover the fate of their missing cat. With the aid of a seeing stone the true nature of the secret world around them is now revealed. It's important the Grace kids tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them . . . It's up to y...

Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles 01: The Nixie's Song  by Holly Black

Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles 01: The Nixie's Song
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689871313
RRP: $18.99

The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake tur...

The Chronicles Of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour Of The Enchanted World, Navigated By Thimbletack by Holly Black

The Chronicles Of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour Of The Enchanted World, Navigated By Thimbletack
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781416950387
RRP: $35.00

Their world is closer than you think! From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes an interactive look at the world of Spiderwick. Take a tour with Thimbletack, resident and caretaker of the Spiderwick mansion, as he guides you through his scrapbook and personal collection of faerie artifacts. Learn the history of the Spiderwick estate and its former occupants; peruse lost letters that un...

The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Care and Feeding of Sprites by Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Care and Feeding of Sprites
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781416927570
RRP: $24.95

Sprites have become part of the common household... often to the surprise of the people who live there! Many have been taken in as pets by those who have developed "the sight" to see them. 'The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Care and Feeding of Sprites' offers readers a guideline to keeping their sprites healthy and happy by learning how to identify them, feed them, dress them, and hou...

Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781416901198
RRP: $16.99

When 17-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up...

Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide To The Fantastical World Around You by Holly Black

Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide To The Fantastical World Around You
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689859410
RRP: $39.99

The super-deluxe, lavishly illustrated, impeccably produced centerpiece to the Mega Bestselling 'Spiderwick' series that fans have been waiting for. Their world is closer than you think . . . it's in your hands . . . 128 pages (not including fold-outs), 41 stunning full colour plates, 6 amazing fold-outs, 6 sublime watercolour landscapes, scores of black and white and colour sketche...

The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook For Fantastical Observations by Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook For Fantastical Observations
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781416903451
RRP: $16.99

Can't get enough of the faerie world? Well, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the brave souls that helped Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace bring their amazing adventures to a worldwise audience, are here to help you find yours! Presenting 'The Spiderwick Chronicles Notebook for Fantastical Observations'. This handy interactive storybook features seventeen mini-adventures collected from...

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689860423
RRP: $16.99

From the author of 'Spiderwick' comes a tale that deftly weaves teen angst, riveting romance, and capriciously diabolical faerie folk into an enthralling read....

Spiderwick Chronicles 02: The Seeing Stone by Holly Black

Spiderwick Chronicles 02: The Seeing Stone
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689859373
RRP: $18.99

'We said no still you looked now instead someone gets cooked'. In this second book, Mallory, Simon and Jared ask many questions and discover the fate of their missing cat. With the aid of a seeing stone the true nature of the secret world around them is now revealed. It's important the Grace kids tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them . . . It's up to ...

Spiderwick Chronicles 03: Lucinda's Secret by Holly Black

Spiderwick Chronicles 03: Lucinda's Secret
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689859380
RRP: $18.99

'Let the story of my niece and nephews be a warning. The more you know, the more danger you're in. And trust me, you don't want to meddle with the Little People. - S.S.' Things at the Grace residence are getting completely out of hand. As if being attacked by goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, now the house boggart, Thimbletack, is out to get Jared. Sim...

The Spiderwick Chronicles 1: The Field Guide by Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles 1: The Field Guide
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689859366
RRP: $18.99

'Go away close the book put it down do not look' It all begins when their great-aunt Lucinda Spiderwick is sent off to an asylum, and the Grace kids - twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory - move into her creepy old mansion with their mother. As they get acquainted with their new home they find many unexpected things. When Jared finds their great uncle's book, ...



Black Heart by Holly Black

Black Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781442403468
RRP: $23.95

Working as an informant for the government despite his con-artist family's operations on the wrong side of the law, Cassel Sharpe struggles with his past as an assassin and his increasingly blurred sense of right and wrong when the girl he loves takes up with the mafia and his Fed contacts ask him to participate in a morally dubious assignment....

Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black

Zombies vs. Unicorns
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781416989547
RRP: $12.95

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Welcome to Bordertown by Holly Black

Welcome to Bordertown
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375867057
RRP: $25.95

An anthology of Bordertown tales, which includes contributions by such writers as Jane Yolen, Cory Doctrow and Neil Gaiman, is a tribute to the fantasy world invented by Terri Windling and its role in inspiring the works of many of today's leading genre authors....

The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black

The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781442412323
RRP: $12.95

A collection of short stories includes two dark tales set in the world of Tithe, a tour of a fairy market, and the story of a girl who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match....

The White Cat by Holly Black

The White Cat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781416963974
RRP: $11.95

When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them....

Tithe / Valiant / Ironside by Holly Black

Tithe / Valiant / Ironside
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781442420205
RRP: $32.95

Presents three novels about teenage faeries in which Kaye discovers she is a faerie and tries to free her friend Roiben from a faerie queen's spell and Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who consort with faeries....

Geektastic by Holly Black

Geektastic
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316008105
RRP: $11.95

A collection of geek-inspired stories for young adults features contributions from such authors as Lisa Yee, Sara Zarr, and M.T. Anderson....

So Fey by Holly Black

So Fey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780809573462
RRP: $19.95

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Ironside by Holly Black

Ironside
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689868214
RRP: $11.95

When Kaye decides to reveal to her mother that she is a faery and was put here in place of the human Kaye, a course of action is set into motion to find the human Kaye while fighting off Silarial, the queen of Seelie Court, who will stop at nothing to get her hands on Roiben's throne. Reprint....

Valiant by Holly Black

Valiant
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689868238
RRP: $11.95

When she runs away to New York, seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell finds that escape from her own reality is impossible as she encounters colorful, desperate, and strange new friends who end up giving her the surprise of her life....

Tithe by Holly Black

Tithe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689867040
RRP: $11.95

Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny....

Bewere the Night by Holly Black

Bewere the Night
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781607012528
RRP: $19.95

Presents a collection of twenty-nine short stories that feature shapeshifters as the main character....

Lucinda's Secret by Holly Black

Lucinda's Secret
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780786285853
RRP: $43.95

With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help....

The Field Guide by Holly Black

The Field Guide
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780786282845
RRP: $43.95

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences....

The Poison Eaters And Other Stories by Holly Black

The Poison Eaters And Other Stories
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781931520638
RRP: $23.95

A debut collection of short works includes two dark tales set in the world of Tithe, a tour of a fairy market and the stories of two girls, including one who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. 35,000 first printing....



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Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale by Holly Black

Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689868207

Travel back to the bewitching world of Faerie in the stunning sequel to 'Tithe'. It is time for Roiben's coronation as king of the Unseelie Court. Drunk on fairie wine and frightened of losing him, Kaye formally declares herself to Roiben, which means he must send her on a quest. And send her he does, on an impossible quest -- to find a faerie who lies. Until she succeeds, she cannot ...

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689837074

Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces her back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdo...

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847393425

Sixteen-year-old Kaye finds a white-haired young man of exotic appearance bleeding to death in a rain-drenched wood and saves his life. From that moment nothing in her life will ever be the same. Soon she is plunged into an inhuman world of conflict and betrayal, with a sacrifice -- hers -- and a kingdom as the prize. Cleverly combining romance with the resonance of myth, Holly Black masterfully e...

Valiant by Holly Black

Valiant
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780786282265

Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures....

White Cat by Holly Black

White Cat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575096714

Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn't a magic worker. Cassel's family are one of the big five crime families in America. Ever since magic was prohibited in 1929 magic wor...



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