Books Like Thursday Next
In an alternate England where literature is a national obsession, a literary detective chases criminals into the plots of classic books.
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Harold Shea
A psychologist uses symbolic logic to travel into the worlds of Norse myth, The Faerie Queene and other legends, where magic runs on rules he can learn.
Lyonesse
In the drowned kingdoms of the Elder Isles before Arthur, kings scheme, a fairy-raised princess grows up, and wizards keep their own counsel.
The Once and Future King
Arthur grows from the boy Merlyn tutors into the king who founds the Round Table. He then watches the dream break apart.
Silverlock
A shipwrecked cynic washes up in the Commonwealth, where every character and place comes from world literature. He reluctantly grows through his journey.
She
A Cambridge scholar and his young ward follow an ancient potsherd into Africa. They find Ayesha, an immortal queen who has waited two thousand years.
Featured pick
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.