ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trudi Canavan lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has been making up stories about people and places that don’t exist for as long as she can remember. While working as a freelance illustrator and designer, she wrote the bestselling Black Magician trilogy which was published in 2001–3 and was named an “Evergreen” by the Bookseller in 2010. The Magician’s Apprentice, a prequel to the trilogy, won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009 and the final of the sequel trilogy, The Traitor Queen, reached number on The Times hardback bestseller list in 2011. For more information, visit www.trudicanavan.com.

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