Authors: Angie Sage

The Magykal Papers (28 page)

The artist would like to thank Janelle Bender for her doodles in the hand of Jenna Heap and Lucy Gringe.

ANGIE SAGE
was born in London and grew up in the Thames Valley, London, and Kent. She now lives in Somerset in a very old house that—rumor has it—has a secret tunnel below it. She is also the author of the Araminta Spookie series. All of the novels in the Septimus Heap series are international bestsellers.

MARK ZUG
has loved fantasy novels since he was a teenager. He has illustrated many collectible card games, including
Magic: The Gathering
and
Dune,
as well as books and magazines. He lives in Pennsylvania.

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Septimus Heap, Book One:
Magyk

Septimus Heap, Book Two:
Flyte

Septimus Heap, Book Three:
Physik

Septimus Heap, Book Four:
Queste

Araminta Spookie:
My Haunted House

Araminta Spookie:
The Sword in the Grotto

Araminta Spookie:
Frognapped

Araminta Spookie:
Vampire Brat

Araminta Spookie:
Ghostsitters

Credits

Jacket design by Joel Tippie

Portraits in the Pigeon Post Biography series were rendered by Max Zatzuma.

SEPTIMUS HEAP: THE MAGYKAL PAPERS
. Text copyright © 2009 by Angie Sage. Illustrations copyright © 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 by Mark Zug. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition June 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-191992-3

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For translation we suggest you visit Larry’s Dead Language Translation Services at number 67 number 1 on the map.

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In the Good Old Days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.

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You may have read elsewhere that Beetle grew up with both his parents, but we regret to say that this is not true. Some of our sources are not always reliable. Also Beetle had a habit, when young, of pretending that his father was still alive and this has led to some confusion around the Castle.

Table of Contents

Papers from The Castle