Follow Garth on twitter at or at www.garthnix. He is also the author of Frogkisser! and other novels for younger children.More than six million copies of Garth's books have been sold around the world and his work has been translated into 40 languages. Garth's books include the award-winning Old Kingdom fantasy novels the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence The Keys to the Kingdom series and with Sean Williams, the Troubletwisters books and Spirit Animals: Blood Ties. A full-time writer since 2001, he has 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. Biography: Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia.followed by a gooseberry and currant pie, a soft pudding, and five different sorts of fruit.' Although less memorable than Nix's Old Kingdom tales, this romance should please the author's regular readers and Georgette Heyer fans alike. Nix describes meals and clothing in delicious detail Truthful's birthday dinner, for example, consists of 'turbot with lobster sauce, several boiled fowls, a turtle, a ham, and a quarter of a lamb with cauliflowers. On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed Newt, will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. The two take part in magical variations on familiar Regency elements having adventures, going to balls, quarreling constantly before recovering the emerald and, of course, falling in love. Newts Emerald Garth Nix Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult. There she is swept up in the social scene and meets a dashing and mysterious soldier, Major Hartnett. New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger calls it 'charming quite, quite charming.' After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan.

The Admiral is rendered insensible by the loss, and Truthful takes it upon herself to leave for London in pursuit. Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, Garth Nix's Newt's Emerald is a Regency romance with a fantasy twist. Series: Abhorsen/The Old Kingdom, Book 6. ©2021 Garth Nix (P)2021 Listening Library. At her 18th birthday party, Lady Truthful, daughter of Admiral the Viscount Newington, is presented with the fabulous Newington Emerald, an heirloom of great magical power which is immediately stolen by persons unknown. In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path that will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel’s life, and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.

Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix