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Onyx CourtSeries
series7 books2008
Historical fantasy, tense in tone, about fae, set in british isles.
“Marie Brennan's Onyx Court series is set in a faerie court hidden beneath London, ruled across the centuries by successive fae monarchs shadowing the human city above.”
from the catalogue
Start with Midnight Never Come →
The Raven KingSeries
series13 books1996
Historical fantasy, about fae, set in 19th century and british isles.
“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →
The Land of Hope and GlorySeries
series3 books2011
Alternate history, about war and colonialism, set in alternate earth.
“At first Jack Casey, retired soldier, wants nothing to do with the uprising, but then he learns his daughter, Elizabeth, is due to be hanged for helping the rebels.”
from the catalogue
Start with Land of Hope and Glory →
The Falconer / Aileana KameronSeries
series5 books2013
Fantasy.
“Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined for a life carefully planned around Edinburgh's social events - right up until a faery killed her mother.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Falconer →
The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse
universe70 books2007
Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.
“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Bones →
includes The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Dark Artifices, Magnus Bane, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Eldest Curses
The Haunted HotelNovel
Wilkie Collinsstandalone novel1878
Gothic and ghost stories, eerie in tone, about murder investigation.
“Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood and marries the Countess Narona, with whom he lives in a Venetian palace.”
from the catalogue