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• The Great When

  Moore, Alan, 1953-

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  In 1949, hapless eighteen year-old Dennis Knuckleyard is employed by a second-hand bookshop. On an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Darker Shade of Magic

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Moonlight Market

  Harris, Joanne, 1964-

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  Deep in the heart of London, a lonely young photographer named Tom Argent walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a striking woman in St. Pancras station; a cloud of moths taking flight across the sky. …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight Riot

  Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-

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  Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  At the dawn of the 19th century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England until the reclusive Mr. Norrell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• London Falling

  Cornell, Paul,

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  Police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross know the worst of London—or they think they do. While investigating a mobster's mysterious death, they come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Screaming Staircase

  Stroud, Jonathan,

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  A sinister Problem plagues London: haunts and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see and eradicate these supernatural foes. Many different Psychic Detection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nightjar

  Hewitt, Deborah,

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  Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life... then the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an 'aviarist': capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. When her best friend is hit by a car, only Alice…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smoke

  Vyleta, Dan,

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  In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia notice that some people appear to be able to lie without triggering Smoke. As they dig deeper,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Taste for Monsters

  Kirby, Matthew J., 1976-

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  In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to kindhearted Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clockwork Angel

  Clare, Cassandra,

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  Hoping to find her missing brother, Tessa Gray finds something terrifying waiting for her in Victorian London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks, and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned World

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009,

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  In this classic first published in 1962, climate change has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. In 2145, biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists confront a cityscape in which nature is on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neverwhere

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  Gaiman, Neil,

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  Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, is changed forever when he is plunged through the cracks of reality into a world of shadows and darkness—the Neverwhere. If he is ever to return to the London Above,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

  Pulley, Natasha,

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  When a strange watch saves his life, warning him of a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, telegraphist Thaniel Steepleton goes in search of its maker and meets Keita Mori, a Japanese immigrant who remembers the future, and soon Thaniel discovers that…Read moreRead more of this annotation