Lord Sunday
core novel 2010 The Keys to the Kingdom
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.02 (16,570 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781405664950 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
Arthur faces his final confrontation in the House against Lord Sunday, its last and most powerful Trustee, in a story that opens with a dramatic fall from the Incomparable Gardens even as a nuclear strike threatens Arthur's own hometown on Earth. With the House's fate and the fate of the entire universe the Will was meant to protect now hanging on the outcome, Arthur must gather his remaining allies among the House's Denizens and confront Lord Sunday directly to recover the seventh and final fragment of the Will. The novel brings together threads from across the series as Arthur reckons with how much of himself, and of his own humanity, his journey through the House has already cost him.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Keys to the Kingdom
- Series: The Keys to the Kingdom core; position 7 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Garth Nix
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Young Adult Book), 2011: finalist; 10th place, no-cutoff convention.
Notes
- From the series record (The Keys to the Kingdom): Core Canon = all 7 novels of the completed series (Scholastic US / HarperCollins UK / Allen & Unwin Australia, 2003-2010). Confirmed a separate, unrelated universe from Nix's The Old Kingdom, already in this canon -- different world, different magic system, no shared characters; both records are cross-referenced as being by the same author.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Keys to the Kingdom: position 7 of 7: previous Superior Saturday (2008)
Sources
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