“What . . . what did you do that for?” he asked nervously.
“It is our custom, after battle,” said Ferin, her dark eyes bright with mischief. “The beginning of a custom, anyway. There is more; I will show you. We have lived, and now we must be joyful.”
Sam looked sideways at her, his expression dubious at first, but then slowly his face brightened.
“Sometimes I’m a bit slow,” he said. “I mean, apart from making things.”
“Yes, you are,” said Ferin. “But it is of no matter. I am not.”
Acknowledgments
I have many people to thank, as always. My agents: Jill Grinberg in New York, Fiona Inglis in Sydney, Antony Harwood in London. My publishers: Katherine Tegen and her team at Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, Eva Mills and her people at Allen & Unwin, Emma Matthewson and crew at Hot Key. All the booksellers who have helped get the Old Kingdom books and my other works into the hands of readers, and of course to all the readers. If not for you buying books, I would almost certainly still write, but it would be a much slower matter, having to fit in with earning a living in some other way. I am very fortunate to be able to work at doing something I love. I hope I can continue!
No writing would have been done at all without the support and encouragement of my family: my wife, Anna; my sons, Thomas and Edward; my parents, Henry and Katharine; my brothers, Simon and Jonathan, and their families.
Thank you all.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GARTH NIX was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen; Clariel, a prequel to the Abhorsen trilogy; and the cult favorite teen science fiction novel Shade’s Children. His fantasy novels for younger readers include The Ragwitch, the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence, the Keys to the Kingdom series, Newt’s Emerald, and A Confusion of Princes. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Guardian, and the Australian, and his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two children.
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BOOKS BY GARTH NIX
THE OLD KINGDOM SERIES
Goldenhand
Clariel
Sabriel
Lirael
Abhorsen
The Old Kingdom Collection
To Hold the Bridge
Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
The Creature in the Case: An Old Kingdom Novella
The Ragwitch
One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales
Shade’s Children
A Confusion of Princes
CREDITS
Cover art © 2016 by Larry Rostant
Hand lettering by David Coulson
COPYRIGHT
GOLDENHAND. Copyright © 2016 by Garth Nix. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016935936
ISBN 978-0-06-156158-0
EPub Edition © September 2016 ISBN 9780062216786
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Maps by Mike Schley
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* As told in “Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case” in Across the Wall
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(Series: Abhorsen # 5)
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