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Canavan, Trudi

Canavan, Trudi

Author Biography & Works

Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. Subsequently, Canavan has written a series called Millennium's Rule, with a completely new setting consisting of multiple worlds which characters can cross between.

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Books by Canavan, Trudi

The Black Magician

The Black Magician

(Black Magician)

A modern reinvention of the classic ‘rags-to-riches’ story, Trudi Canavan’s series is easily digestible and has engaging world-building and magic systems. In the city of Imardin, magicians gather each year...

The Black Magician

The Black Magician

(Black Magician)

Amazon Description This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear...

Black Magician

Black Magician

(Black Magician)

This is a pretty decent epic fantasy about a street girl-turned magician. Thereâs nothing really new here, but the whole story does make for an entertaining enough read.

The Novice

The Novice

(The Black Magician Trilogy)

When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy where must decide where his loyalties lie.

The Novice

The Novice

(Black Magician)

In this New York Times-bestselling novel full of action and adventure, a blacksmith's apprentice can summon demons. But can he win a war? Fletcher is working as a blacksmith's apprentice...

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