Join Amelia Mellor, the award-winning author of The Grandest Bookshop in the World and The Bookseller’s Apprentice, to celebrate the release of The Lost Book of Magic. The high stakes finale in the middle grade series will have you staying up well past your bedtime to discover how the story ends!
Blurb:
It's 1895, Melbourne is in crisis, and Pearl and Vally Cole's father has suggested the unthinkable: it might be time to close the grandest bookshop in the world.
When a ghostly visitor offers Pearl magic that could save her home, she seizes her chance. But her new friend is not what he seems, and the unstoppable magic in the palm of her hand comes at a terrible cost.
Vally can see just one way to save Pearl before she is lost forever. He must call upon the sinister magician who nearly destroyed the Cole family two years ago. But the Obscurosmith only performs the impossible for a price …
Reunite with old friends, solve fiendish puzzles, and find five lost treasures from across the globe in this sweeping adventure that concludes the story of The Grandest Bookshop in the World.
About the author:
Amelia Mellor began her writing career as her secondary school’s resident playwright in Year 11. She holds postgraduate degrees in teaching and creative writing. Awards for her bestselling debut The Grandest Bookshop in the World and its prequel The Bookseller’s Apprentice include an ABIA, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, and the Historical Novel Society of Australasia’s ARA Historical Novel Prize. When Amelia isn’t writing, surrounded by her collection of matryoshkas and tropical fish, she enjoys drawing, spotting wildlife and playing indie puzzle games. Find her at authorameliamellor.com, @Amelia_R_Mellor on Instagram, or staring at old buildings on Melbourne streets.
