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The Magician King
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  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473537415
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
  • RRP: $29.99

The Magician King

(Book 2)

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26 Sept 2023
EBook
3 Oct 2011
Audiobook
25 Feb 2016
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The magical new sequel to Grossman's unputdownable novel THE MAGICIANS

Meet Quentin Coldwater, king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory. But he is getting restless, even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt Quentin gets exactly that. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares...

The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination to run riot and proves Grossman is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis.

This is a book like no other.
  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473537415
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is the author of the No. 1 bestselling Magicians trilogy, which has been published in thirty countries and adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons. He is also a screenwriter and the author of two children’s books, The Golden Swift and The Silver Arrow, and his journalism has appeared in Time, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among many other places. He lives with his wife and children in New York City.
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Praise for The Magician King

An excellent follow-up to a brilliant first installment.

Civilian Reader

Lev Grossman's novel is full of magic ... stupendous urban fantasy ... The Magician King is Harry Potter for grown-ups who have learned to hate Harry Potter

The Guardian

Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed.

Kirkus

A story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love -- all the stuff that makes escapism go. It's a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Grossman's trademark eloquent-yet-hip writing style flourishes in this sequel, a creative and entertaining novel well worth the wait

Greg Bruce, Boswell Book Company

Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.

Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Stross

The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.

The Times

Somewhere between Juster's Phantom Tollbooth and Narnia, as told by Philip Roth ... The Magician King is at once an existential exercise that angrily shakes escapism by its shoulders and demands that life have a purpose, and a story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love. It's a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Lev Grossman's The Magicians was my favorite novel of 2009 by a landslide, cleverly combining aspects of classic fantasy with modern literature and pop culture. Grossman's trademark eloquent-yet-hip writing style flourishes in this sequel, a creative and entertaining novel well worth the wait

Greg Bruce, Boswell Book Company

Grossman's psychologically complex characters and grim reckoning with tragic sacrifice far surpass anything in C.S. Lewis' pat Christian allegory. Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed.

Kirkus