Award-winning author and sometime magician Gareth Ward (aka The Great Wardini) is known for conjuring up dramatic steampunk adventures. His debut novel, 'The Traitor and the Thief', won the 2016 Storylines Tessa Duder Award and the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel and Best New Talent. The thrills have continued with 'The Clockill and the Thief', and his latest, 'The Thaumagician’s Revenge', in which humans with unusual abilities, known as “aberrations”, attempt to prevent the old gods returning to the world. Gareth brings a winning combination of magical tricks and tales to the stage to inspire young readers.