Garth Nix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.
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. Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. 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 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. 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. In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath is a wintry return to the somewhat alternate 1980s England of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London.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.
And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal. If they do not stop her, she will soon kill again. To unravel the secrets of a murderous Ancient Sovereign, the booksellers must investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths. The map takes the trio to a place separated from this world, maintained by deadly sorcery and guarded by monstrous living statues. A desperate rescue is attempted by his sister the right-handed bookseller Vivien and their friend, art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage. It comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger. Yet this time it is not from Sulis Minerva that trouble starts. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits the ancient hot spring. There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath.
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