H.S. Norup's Blog

INTO THE FAERIE HILL publishes in North America next week, so I decided to make an overview of some of the wonderful things authors, teachers, librarians, booksellers, book bloggers and other readers have said about this first adventure with fearsome faeries.

My heart is so full after reading through all the love for Alfred, Saga and Mr Tumbleweed I re-discovered. Even in tiny font, and including only the essence of the reviews, I easily filled up three pages of author quotes and kin...

The Fearsome faeries are coming to America and I’m so excited for my faerie books to fly across the Atlantic and into the hands of new readers!

INTO THE FAERIE HILL is publishing in exactly four weeks on June 24th and THE CHANGELING CHILD will follow in October. Both books are distributed by Penguin Random House. Read more about the books by clicking the titles.

I first travelled to America in 1987 to live with my aunt and spend a semester at Montclair State College in...

I’m delighted to announce and reveal the cover of THE CHANGELING CHILD. My new book is the second adventure set in the world that was introduced in INTO THE FAERIE HILL. It will be published by Pushkin Press on 14. August 2025. The brilliant Thy Bui has outdone herself with this gorgeous and absolutely perfect cover for the book.

Eco-warrior Saga and reluctant faerie-advisor Alfred return to Faerie on a thrilling adventure, after the mayor reveals plans to turn the entire Faerie Hill ...

Into The Faerie Hill was published last week on 2. March 2023—on World Book Day. I was able to travel to London when the book came out, something that hasn’t been possible with my previous two books, and it was a wonderful and really special experience.

My lovely publicist, Vicki Berwick, had arranged a tour of bookshops, a book club (with children who had already read the book in the week before publication!!!), and a World-Book-Day visit to a school in Shepherd’s Bush. It was a whirlwind o...

Finished copies of Into The Faerie Hill arrived last week. They are gorgeous and I love the beautiful quotes by Hilary McKay and Nicola Penfold.

You can hear more about the book in this little video I recorded:

My new book is called Into The Faerie Hill. It publishes on 2. March 2023 with Pushkin Press. The beautiful cover is by Thy Bui.

Into The Faerie Hill is an adventure story about a rootless boy called Alfred, an eco-warrior girl who calls herself Saga, and a community protest against a motorway tunnel that will harm nature and disturb the faeries. The fearsome faeries!

You can read more about the book and find links to preorder here.

I’m completely in love with this Russian jacket for The Hungry Ghost. Just look at that enormous Chinese dragon!
The gorgeous cover illustration is by Elizaveta Tretyakova for Kachelly.

I’m absolutely thrilled and so very honoured that The Hungry Ghost has won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Europe, Latin America & Africa.

I’m absolutely delighted with all the attention and the positive reviews The Hungry Ghost has received.

Quotes from wonderful children’s authors who recommend the book are included in this short video.

On 3. October 2020, The Hungry Ghost was the lead review in the Financial Times.

And it was included in Olivia Ho’s Singapore Bookshelf in The Straits Times on 6. October 2020.

Olivia Ho also created this stunning image for her Instagram, where she styled herself as Ling...

I’m absolutely delighted with all the attention and the positive reviews The Hungry Ghost has received.

Quotes from wonderful children’s authors who recommend the book are included in this short video.

On 3. October 2020, The Hungry Ghost was the lead review in the Financial Times.

And it was included in Olivia Ho’s Singapore Bookshelf in The Straits Times on 6. October 2020.

Olivia Ho also created this stunning image for her Instagram, where she styled herself as Ling...