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- The Raven King
series13 books1996
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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. The linked collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu, which includes the earlier story "Mr Simonelli, or the Fairy Widower," explores the same magical history from other corners of England and refers back to the legendary Raven King, said to have created English magic centuries before. The two books share a setting and mythology rather than a single sequential plot.
- Boggart
series3 books1993
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Susan Cooper's Boggart series begins with the 1993 novel The Boggart, nominated for a Young Reader's Choice Award, and continues across three further books including The Boggart and the Monster and A Box of Boggarts. Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.
- Onyx Court
series7 books2008
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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. It opens with Midnight Never Come, set in Elizabethan England under Elizabeth I's faerie counterpart Invidiana, and continues across later centuries through In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire.
- Sevenwaters
series7 books1999
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The Sevenwaters series is a historical fantasy series by New Zealand-born author Juliet Marillier, first published as three novels between 1999 and 2001, and then later extended. The series includes six novels: Daughter of the Forest (1999), Son of the Shadows (2000), Child of the Prophecy (2001), Heir to Sevenwaters (2008), Seer of Sevenwaters (2010), and Flame of Sevenwaters (2012).
- The Hidden People
Alison Littlewoodstandalone novel2016
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The Hidden People is a historical fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood, first published in October 2016 in the United Kingdom by Jo Fletcher Books. It is based on the 1895 incident in County Tipperary, Ireland, where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling.
- Bridei Chronicles
series3 books2004
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Juliet Marillier's Bridei Chronicles trace the sixth-century rise of King Bridei I of the Picts, from his childhood tutelage under the druid Broichan through his ascent to power and his reign, blending Pictish history with fantasy. The trilogy — The Dark Mirror, Blade of Fortriu, and The Well of Shades (2004–2006) — is Marillier's third historical fantasy series.
- The Falconer / Aileana Kameron
series5 books2013
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- Newt's Emerald
Garth Nixstandalone novel2013
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After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel. She quickly learns, however, that a woman cannot wander the city streets alone without damaging her reputation, and she disguises herself as a mustache-wearing man. During Truthful's dangerous journey she discovers a crook, an unsuspecting ally, and an evil sorceress but will she find the Emerald?
- The Perilous Gard
Elizabeth Marie Popestandalone novel1974
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In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that lead to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.
- A Far Better Thing
H. G. Parrystandalone novel2025
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A Far Better Thing is a 2025 historical fantasy novel by New Zealand author H. G. Parry. It was first published in June 2025 in the United States by Tor Books. The book is a retelling of Charles Dickens's 1859 historical novel A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings.
- Sylvie and Bruno
series4 books1867
completed
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- Peter Pan Universe
universe112 books1902
Start herePeter Pan · Start here
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Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget. Neverland: mermaids in the lagoon, a ticking crocodile with a clock in its belly, a pirate nursing his severed hand, and above it all the boy who will not grow up, forever flying, forever heartless in the lovely careless way that only children are. It begins with J. M. Barrie — the 1904 stage play, the chapters of Kensington Gardens, and the novel Peter and Wendy that fixed Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Hook and the Lost Boys in place. From that small window a wide world has flown. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson supply the how-it-all-began in their Starcatchers books, chasing falling starstuff aboard a doomed ship to explain why one orphan came to fly and never age. A whole bright shelf tends Tinker Bell's Pixie Hollow — the Disney Fairies and Fairy Haven tales, Kiki Thorpe's Never Girls — while Heidi Schulz hands the wheel to Hook's own daughter, and stranger, dimmer corners carry the island into far darker weather. Many hands, one archipelago; no single map governs them all. What sets it apart is the sweetness with a blade in it — wonder shadowed always by the ache of leaving, of mothers who keep the window open and children who fly home too late. Newcomers should begin where it began, with Barrie's Peter and Wendy, then, for the origin, take the Starcatchers books in their own order. The rest of Neverland waits, as it always does, for whoever still remembers how to reach it.
- The Crock of Gold
James Stephensstandalone novel1912
similar byfaebritish isleswhimsicalfantasy
The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, first published in 1912.
