The left-handed booksellers of London / Garth Nix.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2020.Description: 368 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760631246
- 1760631248
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Youth fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction
- Grail -- Fiction
- Magic -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Gender identity -- Fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction
- Grail -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Juvenile fiction
- Australian fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction
- Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction
- Magic -- Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Australian fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling
- Gender identity
- Magic
- Missing persons
- Quests (Expeditions)
- Young adult fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Juvenile fiction
- A823.4 23
- Winner 2021 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children. Winner 2021 Aurealis Award for Fantasy.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Young Adult | NIX | Available | 061809 |
Eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw arrives in London in search of her father. But before she can question crime boss Frank Thringley he's turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is one of the youngest members of a secret society of booksellers with magical powers who police the mythic Old World wherever it impinges on the New World - in addition to running several bookshops, of course! Merlin also has a quest of his own: to find the Old World entity who arranged the murder of his mother. Their investigations attract attention from enemies of the Old and New Worlds. Soon they become involved in an even more urgent task to recover the grail that is the source of the left-handed booksellers' power, before it is used to destroy the booksellers and rouse the hordes of the mythic past. As the search for the grail becomes strangely intertwined with both their quests, they start to wonder... Is Susan's long-lost father a bookseller, or something altogether more mysterious?
14+ years.
Winner 2021 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children.
Winner 2021 Aurealis Award for Fantasy.