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GARTH
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Garth has worked as a public
servant, bookseller, book editor and literary agent. In 2002, following
his outstanding international success, Garth returned to full-time writing
(despite his belief that this contributes to the strange behaviour of
many authors!). Garth lives in Sydney with his wife Anna, who is a publisher,
and their sons Thomas and Edward.
His highly inventive stories
set in vivid, compelling worlds have been critically acclaimed and are
popular around the world with readers of all ages. The rights to his
Old Kingdom Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael &
Abhorsen) have been sold to over 12 countries. To date,
Garth's books have sold in excess of 1,600,000 copies internationally,
with Abhorsen reaching No.3 on the New York Times best
seller list.
   
Sabriel
and Shade's Children, have won major awards in the
areas of both children's literature and the fantasy genre - they have
been named as CBC Notable Books and shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards,
with Sabriel winning two awards in this prestigious
Australian Science Fiction Prize. More recently, Mister Monday,
the first book in Garth's The Keys to the Kingdom series, was
an Honour Book (Older Readers Category) in the 2004 CBCA Awards and
shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards (2003). Continuing The Keys
to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday and Drowned
Wednesday have now been published, with children and adults
alike eagerly awaiting the next installment.
Garth is also the author
of three booklets for Very Clever Babies - a series
of 'easy readers' for three-month-old babies who are familiar with words
such as 'perfidious' and 'icthyology'. His other achievements include
a novelisation of one of the 'X-files' episodes and
some 'proper' early readers - Bill the Inventor and
Blackbeard the Pirate, and a book in the Aussie
Bites series, Serena Smith and the Sea Serpent.
 
Further information on Garth's
work can be found on the following websites:
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