AuthorGarth Nix
NarratorBillie Fulford-Brown
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 6
Duration11h 6m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel’s parents, Tericel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together—and threatened to tear them apart. A long-awaited prequel to a classic fantasy series.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life.
Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a secluded life. Her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, who is feared by all despite her sickness and impending death . . . but perhaps there is even more to fear from that.
Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic can sometimes come across the Wall, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre. In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel’s life, and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.
Old Kingdom Series Book 3: Abhorsen
Author: Garth Nix
Author Garth Nix
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 3
Duration 11h 13m
Before she went to join Sam and Mogget downstairs, Lirael paused for a moment to look at herself in the tall silver mirror that hung on the wall of her room. The image that faced her bore little resemblance to the Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr. She saw a warlike and grim young woman, dark hair bound back with a silver cord rather than han...
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Old Kingdom Series Book 4: Clariel
Author: Garth Nix
Author Garth Nix
Narrator Graeme Malcolm
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 4
Duration 11h 55m
The long-awaited fourth audiobook in the New York Times bestselling Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix. Award-winning author Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom with a thrilling prequel complete with dark magic, royalty, dangerous action, a strong heroine, and flawless world-building. This epic fantasy adventure is destined to be a classic, and is pe...
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The Old Kingdom Series Book 5: Goldenhand
Author: Garth Nix
Author Garth Nix
Narrator Heather Wilds
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 5
Duration 11h 27m
The long-awaited fifth installment in Garth Nix's New York Times bestselling Old Kingdom series, for readers who enjoy series by Rae Carson, Kristin Cashore, Scott Westerfeld, and Cassandra Clare. Goldenhand takes place six months after the events of Abhorsen and follows the novella Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case, which is featured in...
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Old Kingdom Series Book 1: Sabriel
Author: Garth Nix
Author Garth Nix
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 1
Duration 10h 43m
A tale of dark secrets, deep love, and dangerous magic! Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Charter-Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. With Mogget, wh...
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Old Kingdom Series Book 2: Lirael
Author: Garth Nix
Author Garth Nix
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesOld Kingdom, Book 2
Duration 14h 44m
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight-the ability to See into the present and possibly futures-that is the very birthright of the Clayr. Nonetheless,...
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