Length8h 37m
About this audiobook
Every ninth day for fourteen hundred years, the works beneath Marrow Vale have delivered grain to a valley the Empire no longer administers. In the eighth month of 892, they began delivering one third.
Corwen Ash is Marrow's Undertax-Clerk: one man, one office, a stone hut, and a ledger nobody reads. When Form 31-C arrives four days early with his name already printed on the signature line, he checks the figure. Four valleys have dropped to exactly one third, and six years of records say nothing about why.
The works will answer a question, but not his. It answers an officer standing on a register closed since before the Abdication. The only way onto that register is to file. Correctly. In the right form. To an authority that may no longer exist.
Nobody is coming. There is no army, no heir, no hidden power. There is a form, a rule about who may ask, and three thousand people with a third of a year's grain.
The Granary is Book One of The Standing Empire
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Action and Adventure
Length8 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
1615. Her Own Book
21. The Form 31-C
1716. Three Sentences
32. The Ninth Day
1817. Custody
43. Feddar's Primer
1918. Counted
54. The Fourth Observance
2019. Kellen Rill
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65. In Good Standing
2120. Mouth In
76. The Filing
2221. The Distribution Works
87. Post-Nine-of-Marrow
2322. What For
98. Questions of Fact
2423. Forty-One
109. Eleven Settlements
2524. Warden
1110. The Bald Patch
2625. Notified
1211. Reason and Remedy
27A Note at the End
1312. Forty Thousand
28The Standing Empire
1413. The Right to Ask
29About the Author
1514. Two Measures
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