Lev Grossman

Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else he assumes that magic isn't real - until he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. But his childhood dream is a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. (Bestseller)...

"Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and...

"Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest." --

A novel on a young man pursuing leisure. He is Hollis of Boston who graduated from Harvard, but doesn't feel like working. He lives in a world of imagination, sometimes a knight errant, sometimes a space warrior. A debut in fiction.

Heading into season two, this group of unlikely heroes has been thrust into even more dangerous and unfamiliar territory. They must draw upon their novice skills to defeat a threat that could destroy the magical world itself. Driven by power, revenge, and survival, they learn that those who enter the hauntingly beautiful world of Fillory will never be the same as those who leave.

"The hit series based on Lev Grossman's best-selling novels returns for season three as Quentin Coldwater and his magician friends now face a world without magic. Deprived of their special powers, Quentin and the other magicians are desperate to find a way to restore magic. But in order to regain what has been lost, they must embark on an epic quest that cannot be accomplished alone. Now more than, ever, our heroes must rely on one another." --

Based on Lev Grossman's New York Times best seller, this centers on Quentin, a brilliant grad student chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his twenty something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real, and poses a grave danger to humanity.

"The Magicians : Alice's Story is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman that retells the events of the first novel through fan-favorite character Alice Quinn. Alice Quinn is manifestly brilliant, and she's always known that magic is real. During her years at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, she rises to the top of her class, falls in love with Quentin Coldwater,...

"Long after Quentin and his friends have graduated from Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, Dean Fogg invites a historic new group of students to enroll- the first ever class of hedge magicians, rogue practitioners of unsanctioned magic. But the traditional magicians aren't too thrilled to have the rule-breaking outcasts in their hallowed halls, and tempers flare as the student bodies clash to prove their superiority - not realizing a new danger...