Mixed Magics
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 193
- ISBN-13
- 9780064410182
- Type
- collection
About this book
Mixed Magics, the fifth book, arrived in 2000 after a twelve-year gap and is by far the shortest entry in the series at 193 pages, a short-story collection spanning various points in the Chrestomanci timeline that works well read last.
Key facts about Mixed Magics
Diana Wynne Jones wrote Mixed Magics, a collection on our list. It has been out since 2000. The book has 193 pages.
We list 1 edition of this collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780064410182 to find the main one.
Mixed Magics is book 5 of 7 in the Chrestomanci series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with Charmed Life (1977).
Additionally, Diana Wynne Jones writes The Dalemark Quartet and Howl's Moving Castle as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, The Islands of Chaldea is the latest published Diana Wynne Jones book on file, from 2014.
About Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British author who spent over four decades writing some of the most inventive fantasy fiction published for young readers, prized as much by adults as by children for prose that was witty, structurally daring, and never condescending. See every Diana Wynne Jones book in order.
Its place in Chrestomanci
Mixed Magics is book 5 in the Chrestomanci series. It follows The Lives of Christopher Chant. It is followed by Conrad's Fate. See the full Chrestomanci reading order.
Chrestomanci is Diana Wynne Jones's longest-running series, built around a deceptively simple idea: in a multiverse of parallel worlds where magic works, someone with nine lives has to be appointed as a kind of government enchanter, keeping ordinary witches and wizards from causing catastrophes across worlds that don't all know magic is real. That role belongs to the elegant, maddeningly evasive Christopher Chant, who appears in every book but is rarely the narrator -- instead, each novel follows a different…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780064410182