They have virtually no clues – only a reading room ticket, a silver cigarette case, and Susan’s mother’s half-remembered and possibly misspelled names – but they are determined to get to the bottom of both mysteries. Together with his sister Vivien, one of the right-handed (the intellectual ones), they deduce that the identity of Susan’s father may be related to their mother’s murder years ago. She is rescued by Merlin, a handsome and charming clothes horse and one of the left-handed (the fighting ones). Susan’s life has always been a little odd, but things get weirder when she moves to the city, and it turns out that her quest to find her father has put her in the crosshairs of some very nasty Old World creatures. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix is the story of Susan, recently 18, who convinces her mother to let her move to London three months early so that she can secretly try and track down the father she’s never met. This is the world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. This is the world of the extended family of magical booksellers who police the Old World when it intrudes upon on the New. In 1983 London, there is a world of magic and legends and mythical creatures, hidden from the eyes of regular humans yet co-existing relatively peacefully.
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