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The first edition is the Earthlight hardback of 2003, the third Arabesk novel, ISBN 0743461177 (9780743461177). The national library record calls it the first edition and gives 357 pages at 23 cm; ISFDB data notes that the novel ends on p. 356 with acknowledgements on p. 357. Later British issues are paperbacks and easy to separate: Pocket in 2004 (ISBN 0671773704, 20 cm, priced £6.99), Gollancz in 2008 (ISBN 0575083689), and the Gollancz Arabesk omnibus of 2007, which gathers all three novels in one 876 page volume.
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Earthlight, London, in 2003, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 12 November 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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