- Magic, Witchcraft, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile fiction
Chrestomanci #5 When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062244628
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“When I was small, I always thought Stallery Mansion was some kind of fairy-tale castle.”
A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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