Lian Tanner

Lian Tanner is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.

Her book Museum of Thieves, the first book in the middle-grade Keepers trilogy, won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Children Fiction, was a Notable Book in the 2011 Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Independent Booksellers’ Award and the Australian Speech Pathologists’ Award, and was selected as one of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s Best Children’s Books of the Year. It was one of the ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ in the 2011 Australian ‘Get Reading!’ Campaign, and was named as a ‘ White Raven ’ by the International Youth Library in Munich. 'Museum of Thieves' is published in Australia, the USA and India. It has also been translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese and Bulgarian.

'City of Lies', the second book in the Keepers trilogy, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction.

The Keepers Series:

The Hidden Series:

Nicky Bell has had enough change to last her a lifetime. So when new girl Megan Stoat arrives at school, Nicky and her friends decide to treat her so horribly that she'll go back to wherever she came from. With the help of Nicky's pet rat Monty, it looks as if it will be easy. But Nicky hasn't counted on Megan's stepmother, the beautiful, terrifying Mrs. Stoat...

Goldie Roth lives in the city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. But Goldie is both bold and impatient. She runs away to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets a boy named Toadspit mua eum's corridors, and only a thief can find their way through its strange, shifting rooms.

Goldie and Toadspit have a talent for thieving. Which is just as well, because the treacherous Fugleman has his own plans for the museum - plans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a bold thief to stop him.

Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so. But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, he and Goldie are forced to follow the child-stealers to the neighboring city of Spoke. Along the way, Toadspit too is captured, and Goldie is caught up in the Festival of Lies, where every word she says means something else and no one can be trusted. There, Goldie discovers some dangerous secrets—secrets that the child-stealers will kill to protect. She will need all her skills as a thief and a liar if she is to survive and save her friends.

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