He currently lives in the suburb of Manly, Australia, with his wife.

John began writing Ranger's Apprentice for his son, Michael, ten years ago, and is still hard at work on the series and its spinoff, Brotherband Chronicles. Martin's Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.Ībout The Author John Flanagan grew up in Sydney, Australia, hoping to be a writer. White's The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini's Eragon series, and George R. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books. John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. About the Book 'Companion to the bestselling Ranger's Apprentice.'īook Synopsis From the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice! They are outcasts.

Brotherband chronicles the outcasts