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Freya Marske’s A Restless Truth is a sparkling queer historical fantasy of magic, murder, and shipboard romance.
A Restless Truth
Historical Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Lesbian Romance · Magical Realism
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Freya Marske’s A Restless Truth is a sparkling queer historical fantasy of magic, murder, and shipboard romance. A New York Times Editors’ Choice and international bestseller with starred reviews, it follows Maud Blyth and the scandalous Violet Debenham as they unravel murder and conspiracy at sea. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is mystery and romance at their most dazzling.
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Maud Blyth signed up for adventure, but she didn’t mean this. Tasked with escorting an elderly woman across the Atlantic, Maud instead finds her charge murdered on day one of the voyage. Now she’s stranded on an ocean liner with a corpse, a talking parrot, a ship full of suspects, and one dangerously captivating ally.
Enter Violet Debenham: scandalous actress, talented magician, and everything Maud should avoid. Together, the two must navigate murder, magic, and mounting desire while chasing down a powerful object that’s worth killing for.
Trapped at sea, masks will slip, alliances will fracture, and every revelation cuts closer to the truth. To survive, Maud must risk more than her life—she must risk her heart. Who said adventure was safe?
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs.
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock is a spellbinding debut of obsession, wit, and wonder. With a 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon and named a People Best Book of the Fall, this bawdy, magical tale of an 18th-century merchant and a courtesan shimmers with intrigue and unforgettable allure.
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In 1785 London, merchant Jonah Hancock receives news no businessman expects: his ship has been sold for a mermaid. What arrives is no shimmering beauty but a grotesque, shriveled creature with claws, teeth, and the body of a fish. Yet curiosity proves more valuable than cargo, and soon Jonah’s fortune rises as all of London clamors to see the marvel.
His newfound fame carries him from grimy docks to glittering parlors, where he meets Angelica Neal—a dazzling courtesan with ambitions as sharp as her beauty. Their fates intertwine in a dangerous dance of desire, power, and peril.
But obsession carries a price, and the line between wonder and ruin blurs quickly. What will Jonah and Angelica sacrifice in pursuit of the extraordinary?
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Academic ambition gets dragged straight to Hell in Katabasis, where two rival graduate students descend into the underworld to save the soul of the professor who may still…
Katabasis
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism
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Academic ambition gets dragged straight to Hell in Katabasis, where two rival graduate students descend into the underworld to save the soul of the professor who may still determine their futures. Alice and Peter are fueled by resentment, obsession, and the kind of scholarly burnout that apparently now comes with pentagrams and demonic risk. Dark academia with teeth, this one blends rivalry, grief, magic, and a very literal descent into chaos.
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Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:
The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.
That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.
With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.
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Perfect for fans of Garden Spells and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.
The Keeper of Lost Things
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When Anthony dies, he leaves behind a house filled with lost objects and one final wish—that his assistant return them all. The Keeper of Lost Things is a heartwarming bestseller with 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, brimming with wit, warmth, and a little bit of magic. Perfect for fans of Garden Spells and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.
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Anthony Peardew has spent decades collecting lost things—everyday objects misplaced and forgotten by others, each holding a story. It began the day he lost a keepsake from his late fiancée, and he’s been trying to atone ever since.
Now facing the end of his life, Anthony leaves his home and mysterious collection to his assistant, Laura—a woman lost in her own way.
Tasked with returning the items to their rightful owners, Laura begins to rebuild her life alongside an endearing cast: a quirky neighbor, a rugged gardener, and a ghost with unfinished business.
As their stories intertwine, Laura uncovers long-buried connections that could heal the past and change lives forever.
This is a novel about love, memory, and the quiet magic of being found.
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A teenage runaway hears voices that may not be her own, pulling her into a hidden conflict she cannot escape.
The Bone Clocks
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Magical Realism
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A teenage runaway hears voices that may not be her own, pulling her into a hidden conflict she cannot escape. In The Bone Clocks, Holly Sykes moves through decades shaped by loss, memory, and an unseen war between rival immortals. David Mitchell blends literary fiction with speculative elements, creating a layered narrative about time, identity, and the fragile boundary between the ordinary and the surreal.
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The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize •Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine • A New York Times Notable Book • An American Library Association Notable Book • Winner of the World Fantasy Award
“With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”—Los Angeles Times
Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure—it is fiction at its most spellbinding.
Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including
NPR • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • The Guardian • Slate • BuzzFeed
“One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR
“[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.”—The Washington Post
“[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to humorous historical fiction, Frankenstein-inspired storytelling, social satire, and unconventional heroines.
Poor Things
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Called “witty and delightfully written” by the New York Times Book Review, Poor Things follows Bella Baxter, a resurrected young woman in Victorian Glasgow who rejects the men seeking to control her and pursues freedom, desire, and her own understanding of love, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to humorous historical fiction, Frankenstein-inspired storytelling, social satire, and unconventional heroines.
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NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald’s motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin’s, who claims her body and soul.
But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself—and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life.
“Gray has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom.”—Publishers Weekly
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and now a Starz miniseries, The Luminaries (4.2 out of 5 stars) spins a dazzling tale of gold, ghosts, and secrets in…
The Luminaries
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Magical Realism
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and now a Starz miniseries, The Luminaries (4.2 out of 5 stars) spins a dazzling tale of gold, ghosts, and secrets in 1866 New Zealand. Eleanor Catton’s richly layered epic blends historical fiction with mystery and fate, delivering a novel as intricately crafted as the stars that guide its plot.
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Walter Moody arrives in New Zealand seeking fortune in the goldfields. Instead, he walks into a secret meeting of twelve strangers and a mystery too intricate to ignore.
A vanished millionaire. A ruined prostitute. A drunken man with gold he shouldn’t have. What connects them is unclear, but Moody is pulled into a labyrinth of suspicion, ambition, and fate.
Set against the opulence and grit of the 1866 gold rush, The Luminaries unfolds like a puzzle box. Every chapter, every character, every celestial metaphor reveals another layer.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and adapted into a Starz miniseries, Eleanor Catton’s masterpiece is a historical epic, a ghost story, and a literary feat rolled into one.
Nothing in this town is accidental. And everyone has something to hide.
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Good for readers who want cozy magical realism with bookish comfort, emotional healing, community, and second chances.
The Midnight Bookshop
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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The Midnight Bookshop follows strangers Jo, Adelaide, and Kye as a magical bookshop and midnight book club help them see how a single book can change everything, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 11,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want cozy magical realism with bookish comfort, emotional healing, community, and second chances.
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Long ago, a bookshop was born – the beating heart of all those who find hope within the pages of a book. With the words penned upon the echo of old forests, new worlds are created.
It’s ready and waiting to welcome all those who know where to find it…
Strangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop.
But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, all three realise that their own stories can be rewritten.
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend.
After Alice
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this philosophical twist on the classic tale explores loss, logic, and the surreal in lush, literary prose. Wonderland just got even stranger.
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Alice fell first, but she wasn’t the only one.
When Ada arrives to visit her eccentric friend, she’s just in time to miss the chaos. One wrong step later, and she’s tumbling down the same rabbit-hole into a Wonderland that’s less charming whimsy, more metaphysical fever dream.
In this surreal, sideways sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Gregory Maguire reimagines the story not through Alice’s eyes, but Ada’s. Prim, awkward, and slightly asthmatic, Ada isn’t built for Wonderland’s logic-defying nonsense, but she’s determined to bring Alice back.
Back in Victorian Oxford, whispers swirl, decorum frays, and grown-ups scramble to explain the inexplicable.
What if Wonderland isn’t just nonsense and riddles? What if it’s a mirror? And what if both girls are changed for good, whether they escape or not?
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With praise from Amal El-Mohtar, Marlon James, and Alix E. Harrow, this richly atmospheric fantasy is perfect for fans of Ninth House and The Magicians.
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Romance · Romantasy · Magical Realism
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A New York Times Notable Book and one of the best fantasy novels of the year, Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a haunting debut about estranged sisters, deadly magical books, and centuries-old secrets. With praise from Amal El-Mohtar, Marlon James, and Alix E. Harrow, this richly atmospheric fantasy is perfect for fans of Ninth House and The Magicians.
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For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a library of magical books—tomes that allow the reader to control elements, walk through walls, or even bend fate itself. But all magic comes with a price.
Joanna and Esther, half-sisters raised to protect these ancient volumes, have lived apart for years: Joanna in the family’s Vermont estate, Esther in self-imposed exile at a base in Antarctica. When their father dies mysteriously mid-spell, the sisters are forced to reunite—and unravel the deadly secrets at the heart of their inheritance.
What they discover will pull them into a vast, hidden world of power, betrayal, and blood-bound magic.
A New York Times Notable Book, Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a lush, literary fantasy for fans of The Magicians, Ninth House, and Practical Magic.
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night.
The Night Circus
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romantasy · Magical Realism
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night. But behind the magic, two rival magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a dangerous competition where only one can survive. As they fall in love, the fate of the circus—and everyone within it—hangs in the balance.
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The circus arrives without warning—Le Cirque des Rêves, a magical spectacle unlike anything seen before, open only at night.
But behind the enchanting black-and-white tents, a dangerous competition rages between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have trained their entire lives for this moment. Their task? To outmatch each other in a deadly duel where only one can survive.
As the contest intensifies, Celia and Marco fall hopelessly in love, risking not just their own lives, but everyone tied to the circus. With everything at stake, their choices could unravel the very magic keeping the circus alive.
Will their love destroy the dreamlike world they’ve created?
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In a tiny Armenian mountain village where miracles, gossip, and stubborn hope all seem to live side by side, one woman’s expectation of death sparks an unexpected new…
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a tiny Armenian mountain village where miracles, gossip, and stubborn hope all seem to live side by side, one woman’s expectation of death sparks an unexpected new beginning. When Anatolia’s quiet routine is interrupted by a surprise proposal, the whole village is drawn into a tender story of love, friendship, and second chances. Three Apples Fell from the Sky is warm, whimsical, and full of the kind of community charm that lingers.
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The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour
In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curses and miracles are taken very seriously, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs, untouched by the passage of time. A lifelong resident, Anatolia is happily set in her ways. Until, that is, she wakes up one day utterly convinced that she is dying. She lies down on her bed and prepares to meet her maker, but just when she thinks everything is ready, she is interrupted by a surprise visit from a neighbour with an unexpected proposal.
So begins a tale of unforeseen twists and unlikely romance that will turn Maran on its head and breathe a new lease of life into a forgotten village. Narine Abgaryan's enchanting fable is a heart-warming tale of community, courage, and the irresistible joy of everyday friendship.
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