Sam Gayton

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing‘There are other ways to be mighty, you know. Not just world weaving. We got all sorts of other powers, ones that are just as magic. Slower, surer ways to change what’s around us. I’m talking about kindness. I’m talking about love. That’s what Ma was strong in.’Hush Quiet is a girl with an...

Lettie Peppercorn lives in a house on stilts near the wind-swept coast of Albion. Nothing incredible has ever happened to her, until one winter's night.The night the Snow Merchant comes.He claims to be an alchemist - the greatest that ever lived - and in a mahogany suitcase, he carries his newest invention.It is an invention that will change Lettie's life...