The Silvergilts of Delaria

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Title: The Silvergilts of Delaria

Author: Not known 

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: The Bird of the River by Kage Baker

When you read a webpage titled Five Fictional Books Inside Real Books and there are 86 comments, you just know there will be lots of people asking ‘how could you miss such and such?’ and you will very probably discover a bunch of fictional books you never heard of before. And that’s where I read about The Bird of the River with its fictional book. Which I had never heard of before.

So here is The Silvergilts of Delaria. Which is a really lovely title for a completely fictitious book, don’t you think? I would certainly pick up a copy from the fictional table at the fictional bookshop.

Eliss, a spotter on a river barge, apparently treasures the memory of a book about a family very unlike her own. But she never got to finish the book. That’s a bit sad. It’s all very fine abandoning a book you aren’t enjoying (I have only ever got halfway through Lord of the Rings and couldn’t even finish the first chapter of Gormenghast), but not being able to finish one you really want to…?

And very sadly there is no chance that Eliss will ever finish her book, because Kage Baker, who created The Silvergilts of Delaria, died of an aggressive cancer in 2010 and never wrote another book in the Anvil of the World series. 

Perhaps I will read The Bird of the River at some stage and be able to update this post.

Meanwhile, I have no idea if the Silvergilts are astonishingly beautiful trees that only grow in the remote region of Delaria, and the effect they have on an orphan who has come to live with her grandparents. Or could it be that the Silvergilts are a wealthy family who rule the mining moon of Delaria and find themselves in a dispute with an evil empire?

*I have to admit that I can find no other mention of this fictional book online at all. A google search brought up a link to this blog! But someone recommended it, so here’s hoping it really is a fictional book within a book.

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