Reign of Beasts (41 page)

Tansy Rayner Roberts is the author of the award-winning
Splashdance Silver
and its sequel,
Liquid Gold. Power and Majesty
, the first book of the Creature Court series, was published in 2010 and won both the Ditmar For Best Novel, and the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel of that year. The second in the series
The Shattered City
appeared in 2011. Tansy lives in Tasmania with her partner and daughters.

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First published in Australia in 2012
This edition published in 2012
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Roberts, Tansy Rayner, 1978-

Reign of Beasts / Tansy Rayner Roberts.

ISBN: 978 0 7322 8945 4 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978 0 7304 9781 3 (epub)

Roberts, Tansy Rayner, 1978– Creature Court; bk 3.
A823.3

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Cover illustration by Ólöf Erla Einarsdóttir
Maps by Jilli Roberts