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Authors: Garth Nix
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GARTH NIX
was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth's books include the award-winning fantasy novels
Sabriel, Lirael,
and
Abhorsen; Clariel,
a prequel to the Abhorsen trilogy; and the cult favorite teen science fiction novel
Shade's Children.
His fantasy novels for younger readers include
The Ragwitch,
the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence, the Keys to the Kingdom series,
Newt's Emerald,
and
A Confusion of Princes.
His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the
New York Times, Publishers Weekly,
the
Guardian,
and the
Australian,
and his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two children.
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THE OLD KINGDOM SERIES
Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
The Creature in the Case: An Old Kingdom Novella
One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales
GOLDENHAND
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016935936
ISBN 978-0-06-156158-0
EPub Edition © September 2016 ISBN 9780062216786
Maps by Mike Schley
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As told in “Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case” in
Across the Wall