L'Ancien Royaume - La série

Neuf Plans dans la Mort, patrie des âmes défuntes et des morts-vivants de sang assoiffés. Sept cloches ensorcelées pour ces monstres maîtriser. Cinq Grandes Chartes pour l'univers régenter. Trois puissantes Maisons pour les faire respecter. Deux mondes en tout opposés. Un seul pour rétablir l'équilibre menacé : Abhorsën, qui la Charte défend et les morts-vivants pourfend. Face à lui, Kerrigor, l'ennemi juré, l'âme corrompue, Kerrigor, celui par qui le malheur s'est abattu... Abhorsën a échoué. Seule sa fille, Sabriël, peut le sauver. Sabriël, l'enfant élevée dans ce que d'aucuns appellent " la réalité ". Sabriël, qui de magie devra user pour l'esprit de son père retrouver. Méfie-toi, Sabriël ! Certains sur toi veulent se venger...

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil.

Laissez-moi vous chanter un vieux péan : Le lai des Sept étincelants. Que faisaient donc les Sept, en ces temps reculés ? Ils tissaient la Charte, il faut bien s'occuper ! Cinq pour la chaîne, de l'aube du monde à son prochain déclin. Deux pour la trame, pour filer le destin, ravauder au besoin. Voilà pour les Sept. Mais qu'advint-il des Neuf originels ? De ces deux qui refusèrent le mirage d'une paix éternelle ? Le Huitième choisit de se cacher et ne fit pas les choses à moitié. Mais les sept le trouvèrent et le lui firent payer. Le Neuvième était puissant et lutta pied à pied. Las ! Orannis, le solitaire, fut à jamais chassé, Brisé en deux et enterré, Condamné à un éternel oubli, Désarmé et maudit, Nous vouant tous aux Gémonies. Voici venu le temps de sa formidable vengeance...

Sixteen-year-old Clariel is not adjusting well to her new life in the city of Belisaere, the capital of the Old Kingdom. She misses roaming freely within the forests of Estwael, and she feels trapped within the stone city walls. And in Belisaere she is forced to follow the plans, plots and demands of everyone, from her parents to her maid, to the sinister Guildmaster Kilp. Clariel can see her freedom slipping away. It seems too that the city itself is descending into chaos, as the ancient rules binding Abhorsen, King and Clayr appear to be disintegrating. With the discovery of a dangerous Free Magic creature loose in the city, Clariel is given the chance both to prove her worth and make her escape. But events spin rapidly out of control. Clariel finds herself more trapped than ever, until help comes from an unlikely source. But the help comes at a terrible cost. Clariel must question the motivations and secret hearts of everyone around her - and it is herself she must question most of all.

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 Across the Wall. Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic. On a dangerous journey, Lirael returns to her childhood home, the Clayr’s Glacier, where she was once a Second Assistant Librarian. There, a young woman from the distant North brings her a message from her long-dead mother, Arielle. It is a warning about the Witch with No Face. But who is the Witch, and what is she planning? Lirael must use her new powers to save the Old Kingdom from this great danger—and it must be forestalled not only in the living world but also in the cold, remorseless river of Death. Credit : HarperCollins Publishers

Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel’s parents, Terciel 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.