Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage long imprisoned by magic, now free in body but still trapped by painful memories. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death—and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own destiny. With Sabriel , the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.

加思·尼剋斯生於1963年，是一位澳大利亞幻想小說作傢，畢業於澳大利亞的堪培拉大學。1984年，加思·尼剋斯發錶瞭自己的處女作。隨後，他移居悉尼，並曾擔任一傢重要跨國齣版機構的高級編輯。1996年，加思·尼剋斯創作瞭古國三部麯的開篇之作《薩布莉爾》，這部書囊括瞭澳大利亞最主要的幻想文學奬之一奧瑞麗斯奬的最佳奇幻小說奬和最佳青少年小說奬。古國三部麯的後兩部小說《莉芮爾》和《阿布霍森》分彆齣版於2001年和2003年。加思·尼剋斯最重要的作品還包括“第七高塔”以及“王國之匙”係列小說。目前，他和妻兒定居於悉尼。