To Hold The Bridge: A Tale Of The Old Kingdom And Other Stories

Author: Garth Nix

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  • : $19.98 AUD
  • : 9781743316559
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
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  • : January 2015
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : Australia
  • : 19.99
  • : May 2015
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  • : Garth Nix
  • : The Old Kingdom
  • : Paperback
  • : 615
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781743316559
9781743316559

Description

A collection of Garth Nix's best short stories, featuring a diverse cast of characters - protectors, travellers, warriors - ranging across vividly evoked worlds and times.

Author description

Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he previously worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth's books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen and Clariel; the dystopian novel Shade's Children; the space opera A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His fantasy novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series; and the Troubletwisters series and Spirit Animals: Blood Ties (co-written with Sean Williams). More than five million copies of his books have been sold around the world, 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 a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children.