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Brendan Murphy

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Born

Sheffield, The United Kingdom

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Genre

Fantasy, Young Adult, Suspense

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Brendan Murphy has scribbled something down every day since he was nine years old. After reading medicine in London and psychiatry in Manchester, he moved to Australia in 1999. He is an Associate Professor at Monash University, writes widely on youth mental health, has published a book on the history of football (From Sheffield with Love, 2007), and is a columnist for Aontacht Magazine. He lives with his wife, Katrina, and their children, Sebastian and Violette, in a sprawling property built for the composer, Dorian Le Gallienne. They share their garden with a mob of kangaroos, a wombat, two possums, any number of creepy crawlies, and some very feisty kookaburras.

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	Beyond the Gloaming (Sebastian and the Hibernauts #1) 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2014 — 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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Get ready to be transported to a dreamworld brimful of quizzing glasses and magic shillelaghs, mechanical fireworks and night rainbows, fantastical creatures and outrageous skullduggery, tragedy and joy. There are ghosts and gobbleratches, hunkypunks and barguest, leprechauns and cluricaun, a devilish whodunit and an intrigue of entangled passions, all wrapped up in a fast-paced, endlessly twistin

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