The Left-Handed Booksellers of London #1
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London #1
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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. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.
Now available in paperback. 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.
Now available in paperback. 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.
一個女孩為了尋找父親來到了魔法格鬥書商的大家庭，他們的職責是在神秘的英格蘭舊世界侵入現代世界時負責監管它。本書來自最暢銷的青少年奇幻小說大師加思•尼克斯。
現在以平裝本出版。一九八三年，在另個時空的倫敦，蘇珊•阿克肖正在尋找她未曾謀面的父親。犯罪頭目法蘭克•辛格利或許能幫助她，但蘇珊還沒來得及問法蘭克任何問題，他就被魅力無邊的梅林手中那根銀針刺成煙塵。
梅林是位年輕的左撇子書商（戰鬥族的一員），他和右撇子書商（學識族）同屬一個魔法大家庭，除了經營幾家書店外，他們在神話和傳奇的舊世界侵入現代世界時負責監管的工作。蘇珊之所以開始尋找父親始於她母親可能記錯或拼錯的姓氏、一張閱覽室門票和一個刻有某種紋飾的銀製煙盒。
梅林有自己的事要忙，他必須找到那個利用一般罪犯殺死他母親的舊世界實體。當他和他的妹妹--右撇子書商薇薇安--重拾多年前遭警方以拙劣手段所掩飾的調查時，他們發現他們與蘇珊的任務竟然巧合地交疊在一起。她的父親是誰，從事什麼工作？在舊世界危險地侵入到新世界時，蘇珊、梅林和薇薇安必須找出答案。
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