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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Girl Who Saved Christmas
Matt Haig · 328 pages
Settings: Victorian London; North Pole - Amelia Wishart is a lowly chimney sweep who despite her meager existence exudes the kind of hope providing thrust of Santa's sleigh. But when she is sent to the workhouse and her hope drains away, Santa is worried he may have to cancel Christmas if there is diminished hope to power his sleigh.
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 114 pages
A reprinting of the 1843 first edition, complete with the original illustrations, is supplemented by over eighty related sketches and annotations on and analyses of the text and historical notes on the writing of "The Christmas Carol."
The Reluctant Assassin
Eoin Colfer
Terwijl de jonge agente Chevie een stoffige tijdmachine bewaakt, ziet ze ineens de Victoriaanse Riley verschijnen. Hij wordt al snel gevolgd door een huurmoordenaar. Chevie en Riley moeten hem proberen tegen te houden. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
To Visit the Queen
Diane Duane · 369 pages
The cat heroes of The Book of Night with Moon are called out of our time and into the year 1874 to help prevent an assassination plot against Queen Victoria in this delightful sequel to the national fantasy bestseller. Rhiow, head of the feline team that saved New York City in the first book, returns along with her partners Urruah and Arhu, called upon to use their wizardly powers to avert disaste
Christmas in Camelot Graphic Novel
Mary Pope Osborne; adapted by Jenny Laird; illustrated by Kelly Matthews and Nichole Matthews
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle · 68 pages
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat and duck turn into a first class case of felony and theft of a very precious Blue Carbuncle. A fun and well written tale. (Summary by phil chenevert )
Morlock Night
K.W. Jeter · 332 pages
An unwitting participant in the mission to restore Excalibur to its rightful owner who comes awake only when England needs to be rescued, the narrator of this dark farcical romp is enlisted by Merlin to try to save the world. Written as a sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, K.W. Jeter created a science fiction tale employing alternate history and clockwork devices in a Victorian London settin
A Christmas Promise
Anne Perry · 226 pages
Anne Perry's Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two New York Times bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk. A Christmas Promise is the seventh in Perry's holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps en
A Wallflower Christmas
Lisa Kleypas · 213 pages
The Magic of Christmas Rafe Bowman has just arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady-in-waiting, and if it weren't for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed. Before the courtship can begin,
The Wolves of London
Mark Morris · 347 pages
"Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the 'Wolves of London'. Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts"--Amazon.com,
The Return of the Discontinued Man
Mark Hodder · 367 pages
Constable & Toop
Gareth P. Jones · 391 pages
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living. In Victorian London, an undertaker's son, who sees ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention, helps when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts in empt
The Death Collector
Justin Richards · 336 pages
Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
The Hanged Man
P.N. Elrod · 336 pages
"On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current Queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed. After the shocking revelation contained by the
Alistair Grim's Odditorium
Gregory Funaro · 430 pages
In Victorian England, Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen
Emily Brightwell · 272 pages
Tom's Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce · 229 pages
Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.
How to Catch a Bogle
Catherine Jinks · 335 pages
In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
Jacob T. Marley
R. William Bennett · 205 pages
"A parallel account to Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol, recounting events from the point of view of Scrooge's old partner, Jacob Marley"--Provided by publisher.
The Door That Led to Where
Sally Gardner · 276 pages
When the present offers no hope for the future, the answers may lie in the past. AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much. Tidying up the archive one day, AJ finds an old key, mysteriously labelled with h