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    Happy Endings
    Happy Endings
    Happy Endings
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    Happy Endings

    By Will Elliott

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    A fantastic collection of digital original short stories from award-winning author, WillElliott
    the stories cover a range of topics, all of them familiar to fans of Will's work and complementary to his backlist. there are moving stories of loss and saying goodbye, explorations of traditional fantasy worlds, suspenseful horror stories, unexpected twists to conventional stories, and tales from a wild and brilliant imagination. Like all of Will's work, each story is completely absorbing with a fully realised world and engaging characters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781743099544
    Happy Endings
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    Will Elliott

    Will Elliott won the ABC manuscript award with The Pilo Family Circus; in 2006 it won the Golden Aurealis Award and was published in the UK, US, Italy and Germany to great acclaim. He also won The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award, a Spanish Nocte award for Best Foreign Novel, a Ditmar award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the International Horror Guild Award. He published a memoir, Strange Places, with ABC books in 2009 and the Pendulum fantasy trilogy with Voyager in 2010 and 2011. His standalone novel Nightfall was published in 2012. He lives in Brisbane.

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