Garth Nix has devoted his career to the written word. He was a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative and bookseller, and he has now been a full time writer since 2001.

Garth’s books include the award-winning young adult fantasy novels in the Abhorsen series (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel and Goldenhand); 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 Frogkisser; The Ragwitch; The Seventh Tower sequence (The Fall, Castle, Aenir, Above the Veil, Into Battle and The Violet Keystone); The Keys to the Kingdom series (Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday and Lord Sunday); the Troubletwisters series (Troubletwisters, The Monster, The Mystery and The Missing); and the Spirit Animals series (Wild Born, Hunted, Blood Ties, Fire and Ice, Against the Ties, Rise and Fall and The Evertree, all 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 40 languages.

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