Had you always planned to write Honeycomb as a series of short dark fairy-tales, or did the short story form naturally occur as you began writing? It’s set in the same expanded Nine Worlds as my LOKI books (THE GOSPEL OF LOKI, RUNEMARKS) and my Child Ballad-inspired novellas (ORFEIA, A POCKETFUL OF CROWS), and it follows the tale of the Lacewing King, ruler of the Silken Folk, a version of the Fae, from his birth and coming-of-age, through his many adventures (and misadventures) on his journey through the Worlds. HONEYCOMB is a kind of hybrid novel and short story collection, in which every story intersects in some form – thematically, or by introducing a character, or by advancing the main plot – with every other.
Find out more at or follow her on Twitter to the Hive Joanne!Ĭongratulations on the release of your latest collection of stories, Honeycomb. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born. Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as ‘mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion’.
Perfect for fans of Sandman, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Piranesi and The Midnight Library, this tour de force is a beautiful achievement, from two exceptional creators at the top of their game.Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted CHOCOLAT (made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and many other bestselling novels. Turn the page, and be swept up in the adventure. Each original tale is a small piece of the larger picture - a clue or a message, a theme, or a warning - interwoven with the tale of the Lacewing King as he travels the Worlds and encounters a multitude of characters: a toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife a princess whose heart is won by words, not actions a tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size and the vengeful Spider Queen, and deadly Harlequin. Dark, gripping, and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall. Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration that's been years in the making.
Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. The beauty of stories is that you never know where they will take you. Long ago and far away, Far away and long ago, The World was honeycomb, we know, The Worlds were honeycomb. Harris (The Gospel of Loki, Chocolat), beautifully illustrated by the multiple award-winning Charles Vess (Stardust, The Books of Earthsea). An astonishing, richly interwoven story from #1 bestselling author Joanne M.
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