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Matthew Silvester

Goodreads Author

Born

Lochart, Australia

Website

https://www.matthewsilvester.com

Twitter

Moosikar

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction

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Raymond Fiest

Member Since

September 2017

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Matthew Silvester is a happy and contented human living in the sun and nature of Cape Town, South Africa with his wife of twenty years and many rescued farry family members.

Matthew is the author of the Obsidian Gate Series

Book One "Sands of the Fire God",
Book Two " Siege of Dragons"
Book Three - in progress :)

He was born in Australia (1971) but has spent most of his life overseas including school in Malaysia then many years travelling to over 100 countries and following jobs to Canada, England, Israel and Denmark and ending finally in Cape Town South Africa where he now writes full time whilst still dabbling in Renewable Energy consulting. He is a lover of all sports; mainly Rugby, Basketball, squash and golf though will have a go at anyth ...more

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Matthew Silvester's Blog

Love of Words

Like many people, I have always loved words.

A happy, chubby child, I couldn't walk until almost 22 months of age but was happily chatting away from 9 months. I am assured that it was mostly random ramblings, but if you ask anyone who knows me, this hasn't changed a great deal over the years.

There are benefits and pitfalls for this type of verbosity, Charming versus Idiotic - a fine line often cris Read more of this blog post »

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Matthew Silvester’s books

Average rating: 4.55 · 11 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Sands of the Fire God: Book one of the Obsidian Gate 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moosi'Kar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siege of Dragons (The Obsidian Gate Book 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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