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series4 books1954

completed

Historical fiction, set in ancient world and british isles.

“Later books, including The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, follow his descendants through Britain's slow slide out of the Empire.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Eagle of the Ninth →

The Warlord ChroniclesSeries

series3 books1995

About war.

“The books were originally published between 1995 and 1997 by Penguin and Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom and by St. Martin's Press in the United States.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Winter King →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

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, The Dark Artifices, Magnus Bane, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Eldest Curses

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Here Lies ArthurNovel

Philip Reevestandalone novel2007

Reflective in tone, about identity, set in our world.

“Set in fifth or sixth century Britain and the Anglo-Saxon invasion, it features a girl who participates in the deliberate construction of legendary King Arthur during the man's lifetime, orchestrated by a bard.”
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FelixSeries

series3 books1977

completed

Set in europe and 19th century.

“In 1821, an orphaned twelve-year-old boy runs away from his unhappy home in Spain to England where he tries to find his father's family.”
from the catalogue

Start with Go Saddle the Sea →

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