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A queer woman detective investigates a locked-room murder in a 1912 Cairo powered by djinn, automatons, and revolutionary politics.
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His Majesty's Dragon
During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy captain Will Laurence captures a French ship carrying a dragon egg, and when it hatches and the dragon chooses him, he must leave the sea for Britain's aerial corps.
The Eyre Affair
In an alternate 1985 England where literature is a public passion and the Crimean War is still going, Thursday Next, a literary detective, pursues Acheron Hades, a criminal who steals original manuscripts and kidnaps characters from inside them.
Clockwork Angel
In 1878 Tessa Gray crosses from New York to London to find her brother, is held by the Dark Sisters, who show her that she can change into other people, and is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
In 1884 Amelia Peabody, a wealthy, strong-minded Englishwoman of thirty-two, sets off for Egypt with a young woman she rescued in Rome, and runs into Radcliffe Emerson, a rude archaeologist, and a mummy that walks at night.
Senlin Ascends
Thomas Senlin, a mild village headmaster, takes his new wife Marya on honeymoon to the Tower of Babel, a vast stack of ringdoms, loses her in the crowd on the first day, and starts to climb.
Mortal Engines
Long after the Sixty Minute War, London is a vast city on wheels that hunts smaller towns, and Tom Natsworthy, an apprentice historian, is thrown off it after he saves his hero from a scarred girl who tries to kill him.
Rivers of London
Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.
Pyramids
An ancient kingdom's new pharaoh discovers that the pyramids are doing something very strange to time itself.
Dread Nation
After the dead rose at Gettysburg and ended the Civil War, Jane McKeene, a Black girl trained at a combat school to protect white people from the shamblers, is sent to a town in Kansas.
The Alloy of Law
Three hundred years after the Mistborn trilogy, a lawman back from the frontier and his irreverent sidekick take on a gang hijacking trains in a city of railways and electric light.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Two rival magicians in Napoleonic England restore magic to Britain, but their competition awakens something dangerous from Faerie.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.