Garth Nix writes fantasy for children and young adults, often combining clear magical systems with journeys through dangerous borderlands between the living and the dead. Sabriel begins the Old Kingdom series with a girl trained in necromancy who leaves boarding school to find her missing father, using bells and inherited knowledge to control or banish the dead. Lirael and Abhorsen expand the same world through the Clayr, the Abhorsen family and a larger threat to the boundary between Life and Death. The Keys to the Kingdom series moves into a stranger, more symbolic fantasy about Arthur Penhaligon and a vast House divided among powerful rulers. Sabriel is the essential starting point for Nix's darker fantasy, with necromancy, bells and the boundary between Life and Death giving the Old Kingdom a distinctive identity. Read more Less
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