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'Eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw arrives in London in search of her father. But before she can question crime boss Frank Thringley he's turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is one of the youngest members of a secret society of booksellers with magical powers who police the mythic Old World wherever it impinges on the New World - in addition to running several bookshops, of course! Merlin also has a quest of his own: to find the Old World entity who arranged the murder of his mother. Their investigations attract attention from enemies of the Old and New Worlds. Soon they become involved in an even more urgent task to recover the grail that is the source of the left-handed booksellers' power, before it is used to destroy the booksellers and rouse the hordes of the mythic past. As the search for the grail becomes strangely intertwined with both their quests, they start to wonder… Is Susan's long-lost father a bookseller, or something altogether more mysterious?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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AUSTRALIAN FANTASY
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , March no. 105 2021; (p. 86-96)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; Dog 2020 single work children's fiction ; Hollow Empire 2020 single work novel ; The Spiral 2021 single work novel ; Flyaway 2020 single work novella ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel -
Year End Review
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , February vol. 86 no. 2 2021; (p. 38)
— Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel -
Notes from a Year Spent Indoors.... Jonathan Strahan
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , February vol. 86 no. 2 2021; (p. 33)
— Review of Ghost Species 2020 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners & Other Stories 2020 selected work short story -
Locus Listens to Audiobooks
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , January vol. 86 no. 1 2021; (p. 26)
— Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; The Last Smile in Sunder City 2020 single work novel -
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Live Recording : Garth Nix on The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
James Bradley
(interviewer),
2020
23474014
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Garth Nix chats with fellow author James Bradley about his enthralling new historical fantasy, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.' (Production summary)
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Locus Looks at Books : Colleen Mondor
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , December vol. 85 no. 6 2020; (p. 21)
— Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel -
Locus Listens to Audiobooks
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , January vol. 86 no. 1 2021; (p. 26)
— Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; The Last Smile in Sunder City 2020 single work novel -
Notes from a Year Spent Indoors.... Jonathan Strahan
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , February vol. 86 no. 2 2021; (p. 33)
— Review of Ghost Species 2020 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners & Other Stories 2020 selected work short story -
Year End Review
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , February vol. 86 no. 2 2021; (p. 38)
— Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel -
AUSTRALIAN FANTASY
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , March no. 105 2021; (p. 86-96)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; Dog 2020 single work children's fiction ; Hollow Empire 2020 single work novel ; The Spiral 2021 single work novel ; Flyaway 2020 single work novella ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel -
y
Live Recording : Garth Nix on The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
James Bradley
(interviewer),
2020
23474014
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Garth Nix chats with fellow author James Bradley about his enthralling new historical fantasy, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.' (Production summary)
Awards
- 2021 winner Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2021 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Children's Book of the Year
- 2021 finalist Locus Awards — Fantasy Novel
- 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2021 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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