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Terciel and Elinor

By Garth Nix
Series: THE OLD KINGDOM
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Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix is a captivating prequel that delves into the origins of two intriguing characters from the Old Kingdom series. It explores their journey from youthful inexperience to taking on pivotal roles in their world, as they encounter magic, danger, and the intertwined fates that draw them together. This young adult novel reveals the rich backstory of beloved characters while expanding the lore of the Old Kingdom universe.
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Journey into a world of magic and adventure with a tale that dives into the origins of beloved characters, offering fantasy enthusiasts a compelling blend of familial destiny and mysterious powers. If you enjoy stories that intertwine rich world-building with personal growth and epic quests, this might be the perfect read for you.

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Terciel and Elinor


Terciel has been plucked from a life of poverty to learn his destiny as Abhorsen-in-Waiting and master of the bells, and of the Dead. Elinor sits behind closed walls, safe from the magical Old Kingdom ... or so she thinks. Soon these two will meet each other, and their destiny. A magical prequel in Garth Nix's masterful Old Kingdom series.

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SHORTLISTED CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers

SHORTLISTED Aurealise Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction

SHORTLISTED Locus Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction

Beware the wind from the North!

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.

'There is no joy like returning to the Old Kingdom.' - Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows

Series: THE OLD KINGDOM

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761069970

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 308g

Pages: 416

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fantasy Fiction Garth Nix General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: THE OLD KINGDOM Young Adult

About the Author

Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve.


Garth's books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, Goldenhand, and Terciel and Elinor; SF novels Shade's Children and A Confusion of Princes; fantasy novels Angel Mage; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and sequel The Sinister Booksellers of Bath; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; The Keys to the Kingdom series and Frogkisser! His short fiction includes more than 65 published stories, some of them collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge.

He has also co-written several books with Sean Williams, including the Troubletwisters series; Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties; Have Sword, Will Travel; and Let Sleeping Dragons Lie.
More than six million copies of Garth's books have been sold around the world, they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller and others; and his work has been translated into 42 languages. He has won multiple Aurealis Awards, the ABIA Award, Ditmar Award, the Mythopoeic Award, CBCA Honour Book, and has been shortlisted for the Locus Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and others.

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