I want to thank everyone at my publishers, The Orion Publishing Group, for their whole-hearted support of these books right from the start. I’m also extremely grateful to Geoff Taylor for creating the gorgeous chapter illustrations and evocative endpaper maps; and to John Fordham for capturing the essence of each story in his beautiful and distinctive cover designs.
As always, my thanks go to my agent, Peter Cox, for encouraging the idea from the very beginning, and for supporting it so tirelessly and skilfully throughout.
Lastly, my special thanks to Fiona Kennedy, who has encouraged me in the writing of these books with such boundless imagination, talent, patience, commitment and understanding. I could not ask for a better publisher and editor.
Michelle Paver
London
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AN ORION CHILDREN’S EBOOK
This eBook collection first published in Great Britain in 2013 by Orion Children’s Books
Text copyright © Michelle Paver 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
Maps and illustrations copyright © Geoff Taylor 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
The right of Michelle Paver and Geoff Taylor to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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ISBN: 978 1 4440 1097 8
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