The tales of the novel take place in a fantastic and elaborate world and detail the many challenges that Heap and his friends face over the course of the novels. His adventures are set in the strength and warmth of his community and family.

He has an adopted sister named Jenna, who also happens to be next in line to inherit the Kingdom of Castle. He goes by the name Young Army Expendable Boy 412 in the debut novel of the series, before his true identity is revealed by Zelda Zanuba Heap his great-aunt. He is apprenticed to the arch wizard named Marcia Overstrand and has to study for seven years to get his qualifications.

The “Septimus Heap” series of novels is a story about the life and times of Septimus Heap, a seventh son of a seventh son that has super natural powers. “The Magykal Paper” a color complement of the series came out in 2009. Angie soon graduated to authoring children’s stories and published “Magyk” the first novel of the “Septimus Heap” series in 2005. She studied Illustration and Graphic Design and worked for a while illustrating school books after finishing school. She went to college and studied medicine, but soon quit to go study art and design in Leicester. Reading about history was akin to time travel as it allowed her to travel to distant places, which she would then draw on her books. She remembers the first time she learnt how to read and asserts that it was one of the most exciting periods of her life. Her father was renowned publisher that often brought home blank books that Angie would spend hours filling with stories and pictures. Angie was raised in Kent, London, and the Thames Valley. Besides authoring the Septimus Heap novels she is also a writer and illustrator of children’s novels. Besides the “Septimus Heap” novels, Sage is also the author of the Araminta Spookie, and the Todhunter Moon Trilogy that are a sequel to the Septimus Heap novels. “Septimus Heap” is a series of novels by popular fantasy author Angie Sage.

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