Part of Series
Lorkin bliver bortført af sarkanske oprørere, som vil dræne og sandhedslæse ham for at få viden om magisk healing. Spørgsmålet er hvad de vil gøre ved ham, når de har fået det de ønsker … Novicerne Naki og Lilia har i al hemmelighed lært sig sort magi ved at læse forbudte bøger. Lilia forelsker sig i den adelige Naki, der er afhængig af opium, som hun skaffer fra underverdenen, men det hele går galt, da Nakis far, mester Leiden, findes myrdet, og Naki skyder skylden på Lilia.
Author
Trudi Canavan was born in Kew, Melbourne, and grew up in Ferntree Gully, a suburb at the foothills of the Dandenongs. In 1999 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story with “Whispers of the Mist Children”. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales. In November 2001, The Magicians’ Guild was first published in Australia. The second book of the trilogy, The Novice, was published in June 2002 and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The third book The High Lord was released in January 2003 and was nominated for the Best Novel Ditmar category. All three books entered Australian top ten SF bestseller lists. The Black Magician Trilogy reached the international market in 2004, published by HarperCollins’ EOS imprint in North America and Orbit Books in the UK. The trilogy is now rated by Nielsen BookScan as the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years. Trudi’s second trilogy, Age of the Five, has also enjoyed bestselling success. Priestess of the White reached No.3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list, staying in the top ten for six weeks. In early 2006 Trudi signed a seven-figure contract with Orbit to write the prequel and sequel to the Black Magician Trilogy. The prequel, The Magician’s Apprentice was released in 2009 and won the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards.
