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THE LAST BATTLE FOR HOLLOW EARTH BEGINS... Lots of twins have a special connection - being able to finish each other's sentences; sensing what the other is thinking; perhaps even knowing when the other is in trouble or in pain - but for 12-year-old twins, Matt and Emily Calder, the connection is beyond special. They are Animare: they can bring art to life and enter paintings at will. But they are also Guardians, destined to safeguard the powers and existence of Animare everywhere. They are the first of their kind. Their childhoods have been spent in service to an ancient duty: preventing a breach in Hollow Earth - an alternate world that holds all the demons, devils and creatures ever imagined. But now their last battle for Hollow Earth begins...
Author
John Barrowman was born in Scotland, and moved to Illinois when he was eight years old. He is bi-dialectal, doing much of his stage and acting work in his American accent, but speaking with family in his Scottish accent. He moved back to Britain in 1989 when he was hired to play the lead in Anything Goes. He took on a number of West End roles, including the leads in Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon and a dramatic play entitled Rope, while working as a children's television presenter and came back to America briefly to work on short lived shows such as Central Park West and Titans. He then bounced around Broadway, West End and the LA Stage for a number of years before moving back to Britain permanently. He won the role of Captain Jack Harkness in the new Doctor Who series and went on to star as Captain Jack in its adult spin-off Torchwood. John married Scott Gill, his partner of fifteen years, in December 2006.
