Troubletwisters: Volume 1

Garth Nix has worked as a bookseller, book sales representative, publicist, editor, marketing consultant and literary agent. He also spent five years as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. A full-time writer since 2001, more than 4.5 million copies of his books have been sold around the world and his work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. Garth's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly (US), the Bookseller (UK), the Australian and the Sunday Times (UK). He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two children.

Sean Williams was born in a small coastal town that no one has ever heard of. No, not Portland, but his father’s family did come from the Portland in Victoria, where Sean first read The Lord of the Rings. That formative experience led him to write stories of his own, and he has spent most of his life since doing exactly that, producing forty novels and collections, eighty shorter works, and several disreputable poems in quick succession. If he has a particular Gift, it is to write through pretty much anything, even attacks of the hairy spiders that often infest his study, and so swiftly that some of his books appear to have been finished before they were started (rather suspiciously). He lives in Adelaide, South Australia, where he likes to DJ at the odd party and to cook the even odder brussels sprout curry – Gifts his wife and family probably wish he didn’t exercise quite so often.

A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Miriam won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for The Age of Innocence and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on Radio in 1993 for her unabridged recording of Oliver Twist. She was the voice of the Matchmaker in Mulan and Fly, the mother dog, in Babe. Miriam played Professor Sprout in the film of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Miriam is also the beloved narrator of many audiobooks and has been selected as one of AudioFile magazine's Golden Voices.