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Title: William Sandberg’s The Golden Codex to Be Featured at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair

The Golden Codex is a metaphysical fantasy set largely in contemporary South Vancouver, British Columbia, but one that reaches across multiple layered “orbs” of reality—a cosmology the novel builds from the ground up, with its own language (Dirshani), its own secret societies, and its own system of esoteric practice known as Brahan. At its center is Piers Ralston, a fourteen-year-old boy who takes a job at an antiques store run by his father’s old mentor, Tom Aimesworth, without knowing that the job is a cover for his initiation into the arts that will determine whether he survives what is coming for him.What is coming is no metaphor. Piers has been entered into the “kravl inventory” of the Kopendres Syndicate—the slave registers of a covert organization that traffic in people between worlds. His father escaped the same fate years earlier; now the syndicate has claimed the son as payment. The novel’s opening exchange between Jim Ralston and Tom in the shuttered back room of Aimesworth and Dixon Antiques lays out this premise with impressive economy: the reader is dropped into a fully formed world of secret handshakes, coded language, and hidden networks of surveillance and control, where the threat facing Piers is as legally binding as it is supernatural. Sandberg earns his world-building—it is never decorative; it is always load-bearing.The novel’s engine is Piers himself. He begins as a sharp, skeptical teenager—more comfortable with guitar lessons and soccer than with the occult—and Sandberg takes real care with his initiation. The discovery of the “Nexus,” a sheet of living gold bearing an unidentifiable script that Piers finds in the shop’s cellar, marks the beginning of his education in Brahan. His approach to decoding the glyphs—methodical and analytical—reflects...

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