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THE RAGWITCH HarperCollins USA paperback

SABRIEL HarperCollins UK

LIRAEL HarperCollins USA hardcover/paperback

ABHORSEN HarperCollins UK paperback

SHADE'S CHILDREN HarperCollins UK paperback

MISTER MONDAY Scholastic USA  paperback/hardcover

GRIM TUESDAY Scholastic USA  paperback/hardcover

 

SIR THURSDAY Allen & Unwin Australia paperback

LADY FRIDAY HarperCollins UK paperback

ACROSS THE WALL HarperCollins UK paperback

THE FALL (THE SEVENTH TOWER #1) Scholastic USA new paperback

CASTLE (THE SEVENTH TOWER #2) Scholastic USA new paperback

AENIR (THE SEVENTH TOWER #3) Scholastic USA new paperback

ABOVE THE VEIL ((THE SEVENTH TOWER #4) Scholastic USA new paperback

INTO BATTLE  (THE SEVENTH TOWER #5) Scholastic USA new paperback

THE VIOLET KEYSTONE (THE SEVENTH TOWER #6) Scholastic USA new paperback

ONE BEASTLY BEAST HarperCollins USA hardcover

 

 

A representative sampling of US, UK and Australian covers for my books.

This is my erratically maintained personal website. However there are other, more professional efforts out there at
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And I have started a little bit of twittering @garthnix

Some of My Favourite Books: An Alphabetical Remembrance

 

Frequently Unanswered Questions

The Short Biography

 

Writing Advice

‘The Nine Stages of a
Garth Nix Novel’

 

How I Write:
The Process Of Creating A Book

 

 

My New Really Epic
 Fantasy Series

Warning for the literal-minded: this is not serious

 

 

Some Sabriel covers from
around the world

 

 

 

Contact Information

 

If you would like to get a postcard from me, write to:

 

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PO Box 2308

Clovelly NSW 2031

AUSTRALIA.

 

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Please do not send me social application presents, boxes, pillows, pets etc

 

Unfortunately I usually cannot reply to
e-mails (I need to spend pretty much all my time writing books) but I do personally read all letters and e-mail and I appreciate receiving these communications. But if you ask for a postcard, you will get one!

 

Please note that I do not read unsolicited stories, book manuscripts or scripts sent in the hope that I will comment on them or assist in their publication or development. I wish you all the best with your work, but due to lack of time and to avoid possible legal complications all such material sent to me is returned (if you provided a SAE) or destroyed/deleted unread. The best thing to do is to write as well as you can, and submit the work to actual publishers or agents, and keep on doing so, with new work if the older material does not meet with success. See ‘Writing Advice’ in the sidebar above.

 

 

 

A CONFUSION OF PRINCES

 

Will be released in Australia in mid-April 2012 and in the UK and USA in mid-May 2012.

 

           

American Hardcover               British paperback                   Australian pb (not final)

Amazon   B&N                        Amazon UK  Waterstones       A&U  Galaxy  Shearers

A major standalone space opera, this is Garth Nix’s first novel for older readers since the conclusion of the Old Kingdom trilogy… and it’s worth the wait.

A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of Princes is also a page-turning action adventure.

These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words, we follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire, an enhanced human being, equipped with biological and technological improvements that make him faster, stronger and smarter than any ordinary person. Not to mention the ultimate benefit: should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn…

Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire: there are ten million princes, and all of them want each other dead, because there can only be one Emperor…

The book shares a background with the online game IMPERIAL GALAXY, which we still hope to relaunch in 2012, if we can gather sufficient funds to do some essential work.

 

DOWN TO THE SCUM QUARTER RETURNS

 

Your beautiful mistress, the Lady Oiseaux, has been kidnapped.  There is only one slim clue that may lead you to her – a brief message, scrawled in pale gold eye-paint across the side of her hijacked palanquin:

 

Oh! This is awful, I am being kidnapped! They are taking me to sell to a desert chieftain at an auction, which I think is going to take place at midnight. And I was going to wear my new dress with the ruby chips sewn on cloth of gold, and the peacock feather fan from . . .

 

Though I haven’t been able to find the HTML files that let you play this parodic solo adventure online, I did find the original paper version that appeared in Breakout! magazine in 1989! I’ve scanned it and you can access a (10Mb) PDF here.

 

 

SIR HEREWARD AND MISTER FITZ: THREE ADVENTURES

Now available for Kindle , ePub from the Apple iBookstore, and Nook

 

Sir Hereward. Knight, artillerist, swordsman. Mercenary for hire. Ill-starred lover.

Mister Fitz. Puppet, sorcerer, loremaster. Practitioner of arcane arts now mostly and thankfully forgotten.

 

 Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz. Agents of the Council of the Treaty for the Safety of the World, charged with the location and removal of listed extra-dimensional entities, more commonly known as gods or godlets.

Travellers. Adventurers. Godslayers . . .

 

Gathers together the novelettes “Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go To War Again” and “Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarkoe” plus the short story “A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet”.

 

Cover by Jonathan Nix.

 

Reader Advisory: Though some of Garth Nix’s books and stories are for children, this one is not. It is for adult readers.

 

THE EVIL IS COMING . . . TROUBLETWISTERS

       

 

My new children’s fantasy adventure series, co-written with Sean Williams, launched in May 2011 in the USA, Australia and NZ, and June in the UK. Book 2 will be out May/June 2012.

 

The Australian website for the books is live. You can read an extract, watch trailers and much more here.

 

 

CLARIEL

 

I’m writing CLARIEL: THE LOST ABHORSEN at the moment. It is set about 300 years before the events of SABRIEL, in an extremely settled era of the Old Kingdom, where is almost no threat from the Dead or Free Magic, and the Abhorsens are considered something between an archaic remnant of worse times and municipal rat-catchers. Clariel will probably be a 2013 release.

 

Stories

 

I have a bunch of short fiction out recently or coming out soon, including:

 

“Vampire Weather” in Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

“Ambrose and the Ancient Spirits of East and West” in The Thackeray T Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer

“The Case of the Moondawn Daffodils as Experienced by Sir Magnus Holmes and Almost-Doctor Susan Shrike” in Ghosts by Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers

“A Handful of Ashes” in Under my Hat edited by Jonathan Strahan (2012)

 

And a couple of others that I can’t reveal as yet . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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