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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