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I must also apologise for the long delay in picking up the story again. You have all been very patient, and I promise not to take so long with the final instalment.
Thank you all for being such wonderful readers. I hope you enjoy this latest chapter in the adventures of Benfro and Errol.
James Oswald
Fife – May 2015
Acknowledgements
I may have been the one sitting at a desk in the wee small hours dreaming of dragons and magic (and sheep), but an army of people have helped to bring those dreams to the wider world. I run the risk of upsetting people by not including them in this list, but I must thank Alex Clarke, Sophie Elletson, Hugh Davis and all the rest of the team at Michael Joseph for polishing my words into something readable, and for wrapping them up in such gorgeous covers. Thanks too to Roy McMillan and Wayne Forrester for the truly wonderful audiobook editions.
I wouldn’t be where I am today without the irrepressible Juliet Mushens, agent extraordinaire, friend and now cat lady in training. Thank you seems somehow inadequate, so I’ll just have to keep sending the pink fizz.
A shout out to Stuart MacBride, who probably never realised all those years ago how his advice to ditch the sheep would pay off. And thank you to my long-suffering partner Barbara McLean, who first pointed out all those years ago that Sir Benfro would be great name for a dragon.
And finally the biggest thank you of all to you readers, who not only took a chance with an unknown, self-published author, but also stuck around this far. I could probably do it without you, but it wouldn’t be half as much fun.
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First published in Great Britain in Penguin Books 2015
Chapters 1–13 were first published as part of The Golden Cage in electronic form in Penguin Books 2013
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ISBN: 978-1-405-91779-7
J.D. Oswald, The Broken World
