Guy Salvidge


Biography

Guy Salvidge was born in England in 1981 and moved with his family to Perth in 1990, at the age of eight. He won the Roy Grace English Scholarship in 1996, and the West Australian Book Council's Make Your Own Story Book Competition in 1998. In 1999 he won the Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award (Young Writers section) and was runner up in the KSP Speculative Fiction Award (Young Writers section) in 2000.

Guy studied Creative Writing and Literature at Curtin University under such writing luminaries as Simone Lazaroo and Bruce Russell. He graduated from Curtin in 2002 with Honours. He is married and has two children, Ella and Leon, and currently lives in Northam, Western Australia, where he teaches secondary English.

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Books

The Kingdom of Four Rivers    by Guy Salvidge
Price: $1.99 USD. 81580 words. Published on July 30, 2010. Fiction.

In the distant future, climate change has wreaked havoc on the world, leaving isolated communities living beneath great shields. Ji Tao is a young peasant woman struggling to make sense of her place in the world of the Kingdom of Four Rivers. On a family expedition, she makes a startling discovery in an ancient crypt, sending Ji Tao on a breathtaking journey of danger and intrigue.

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