A Philosophy of Thieves: Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy. Get your copy here.
Today she tells us about her Six Books:
1. What book are you currently reading?
LD Lewis’ Year of the Mer (April 2026). I’m reading it to blurb and — spoilers — I’m going to blurb it A LOT. This is a story that goes beyond a retrenching of The Little Mermaid, to explore deeper issues of generational identity, trauma, revenge, and anger. It has so much heart, and so many moments where my own heart is ready to crumble. I am so looking forward to seeing this book out in the world, wrecking havoc.
2. What upcoming book are you really excited about?
LD Lewis’ Year of the Mer, see above.
AND Alix Harrow’s new book, The Everlasting (10/28). I would read a phone book cover to cover if Alix wrote it. But The Everlasting has a mysterious book in it that is so rare it might not exist, which is absolute Fran-bait. And a female knight, and fiction vs. reality plot lines and I’m so here for it.
OH AND Will Alexander’s just-out book Sunward (9/16). What began as a short story for The Sunday Morning Transport has bloomed into a resplendent space opera with so many fantastic moving parts (and sarcastic intelligences) that I want to hug it and share it and then grab it back and hug it again. Do I feel a tiny bit like a book auntie on this one? Yes. Yes I do.
3. Is there a book you’re currently itching to re-read?
I love rereading Frances Hardinge’s books - this year it’s Unraveller that I want to revisit.
Alix Harrow’s Starling House and Frances Hardinge’s Unraveller. The prose in both, the awareness of relationships and the heart-strings that wrap around your throat in both as the main characters fall deeper and deeper into the plot. I’m so here for that kind of utterly immersive writing, and I can still hear the phrases and sentences I wish I’d written in both.
5. What’s one book, which you read as a child or a young adult, that has had a lasting influence on your writing?
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting are two childhood books that have both had a lasting influence on my writing (each deals with adventures and fantasy, getting your wildest dreams, and setting out from the real world into a very different place). Oh and puns. Lots of puns. And whimsy.
Read Paul's review of A Philosophy of Thieves here at NOAF.
