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series5 books2020

Historical fantasy, set in 19th century and british isles.

“After moving to London, Dora meets the royal magician Elias Wilder, who promises to help her find a cure.”
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Start with Half a Soul →

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.”
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Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →

Newt's EmeraldNovel

Garth Nixstandalone novel2013

About magical artifacts and quests, set in big city.

“After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel.”
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Onyx CourtSeries

series7 books2008

Tense in tone.

“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.”
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Start with Midnight Never Come →

Kate and Cecelia UniverseSeries

series4 books1988

Fantasy.

“Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.”
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Start with Sorcery and Cecelia: An Epistolary Fantasy →

Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' RevolutionNovel

R. F. Kuangstandalone novel2022

About colonialism and books and reading, set in our world.

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