Books by Felicity Banks

Emmeline Muchamore was respectable once. Her sweetheart, Matilda Newry, certainly put a stop to that. But when Emmeline gains magical insight into a disastrous future battle, she weaponises her wild reputation in order to draw trouble and death away from her adopted home ... risking everything and everyone she loves in the process.Iron Lights is a steam-powered tale of honour, love, magic, adventure, and mechanical spiders.

The only weapon Dance has is her name.When pirates threaten the tiny hidden island of Luar, Dance knows her home has only one hope of survival: the magical monsters that killed her twin sister.Dance loses her friends one by one as she attempts to prepare her strange apprentices for the showdown between monsters and pirates. Can she do it alone?The Monster's Apprentice is a powerful story of looking at the world differently and finding an answer in an unexpected place.

Getting into prison is easy. Getting out is hard. Getting away is nearly impossible. Getting the power to control your own destiny might cost everything you have. Emmeline, Matilda, and Patrick are sworn to rescue Patrick's mother from the infamous Female Factory prison, but when a vengeful police officer tracks down their hideout, things get worse fast. Soon they're framed for a double murder and fighting a magical monster in the eerie and unfamiliar island of Tasmania. Patrick's mother hides crucial papers in a tin under her prison smock, and her best friend Fei Fei is dying in the overcrowded prison. More than one woman's life hangs in the balance.

Emmeline Muchamore is a well-bred young lady hiding explosive family secrets. She needs to marry well, and quickly, in order to keep her family respectable. But when her brass heart malfunctions, she makes a desperate choice to steal the parts she needs to repair it and survive.She is unable to explain her actions without revealing she has a steam-powered heart, so she is arrested for theft and transported to Victoria, Australia - right in the midst of the Gold Rush.Now that she's escaped the bounds of high society, iron manacles cannot hold her for long.The only metal that really matters is gold.