- Title:
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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
- Series:
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Left-Handed Booksellers of London #1
- Written by:
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Garth Nix
- Read by:
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Marisa Calin
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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11 hours 15 minutes
- Published:
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September 22 2020
- Available Date:
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September 22 2020
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (13+)
- ISBN:
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9780655692881
- Genres:
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Fiction; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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#1 New York Times bestselling author
Longlisted Indie Book Awards / Young Adult 2021
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Book of the Year for Older Children 2021
Notable Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Older Readers 2021
Shortlisted Aurealis Award / Best Young Adult Novel 2020
Winner Aurealis Award / Best Fantasy Novel 2020
A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world.
In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn't get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.
Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops.
Susan's search for her father begins with her mother's possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.
Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan's. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.
'This is my favourite kind of tale, one where the magic and the real nest together like pages in a book.'
V.E. Schwab, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series
'A warm, whimsical delight – The Left-Handed Booksellers of London is a witty, clever adventure in an exquisitely detailed world you will love escaping into.'
Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent series
'Garth Nix sets the standard for Fantasy.'
Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and The Grisha Trilogy