Chrestomanci - Book Series

Book Series

There are seven Chrestomanci books: six novels and a collection of four stories subtitled Four Tales of Chrestomanci.

The main setting for the series is Chrestomanci Castle in southern England, in an unspecified time, in a parallel world close to ours where "magic is as common as music is with us". Two of the novels are set during the childhood and during the adolescence of Christopher Chant.

• The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988)
• Conrad's Fate (2005)

Christopher is mainly about 12 years old in the first, which was later issued with subtitle The Childhood of Chrestomanci. He is 15 years old in the second. The other four novels and all four tales are set during his tenure as Chrestomanci, and least 25 years pass between The Lives and Charmed Life.

• Charmed Life (1977)
• "Warlock at the Wheel" (1984 short story)
• The Magicians of Caprona (1980)
• "Stealer of Souls" (2000 novella)
• "Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream" (1986 novelette)
• The Pinhoe Egg (2006)

One novel and one tale cannot be placed in sequence. They are set in other worlds without overlapping characters except visits by Christopher Chant as Chrestomanci and evidently in the prime of life.

• "The Sage of Theare" (1982 novelette with part of a pantheon)
• Witch Week (1982 novel and school story)

Eric Chant appears briefly in "The Sage" as a boy or young adult from the household of Chrestomanci Christopher Chant. "The Sage" briefly spans more than two decades.

All four short fictions named here are collected in Mixed Magics.