Go Saddle the Sea

10 best books like Go Saddle the Sea (Joan Aiken): New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, Tunnel of Bones, Interesting Times: The Play, Bringing Down the Duke, Molesworth, The Vicarage Murder, Biggles Adventure Double: Biggles Learns to Fly & Biggles the Camels are Coming: WWI Omnibus Edition, Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber, Guards! Guards!: The Play, The Private Life of Elder Things

AuthorPaula Guran
ISBN1607012898
For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gamers. His themes of cosmic indifference, the utter insignificance of humankind, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history—written with a pervasive atmosphere...
Tunnel of Bones
AuthorVictoria Schwab
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.

She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly...
Interesting Times: The Play
AuthorStephen Briggs
ISBN0413772195
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor.

He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding...
Bringing Down the Duke
AuthorEvie Dunmore
ISBN1984805681
A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.

England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar,...
AuthorGeoffrey Willans
ISBN0141186003
I adored Down With Skool!, the first of four books featuring observations from that consummate blockhead, Nigel Molesworth, the self-described “curse of St. Custard’s,” an English boarding school in the 1950s. When I had the chance to buy Molesworth, an omnibus of all four books for a pittance,...
The Vicarage Murder
AuthorJoyce Cato
Meet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes.

IN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE

Monica Noble is throwing a party to welcome the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret and her cheating husband Sean. Also on the list...
Biggles Adventure Double: Biggles Learns to Fly & Biggles the Camels are Coming: WWI Omnibus Edition
AuthorW.E. Johns
BIGGLES LEARNS TO FLY
Age just seventeen and with almost no flying experience, James Bigglesworth is sent to tackle the enemy in the hostile skies over First World War France. In a drama of war, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or die....
Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber
AuthorJohn Gregory Betancourt
ISBN0743452402
In Roger Zelazny's Amber universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that Amber was not the first true world; rather, it was The Courts of Chaos. The saga chronicled the adventures of the royal family of Amber, culminating...
Guards! Guards!: The Play
AuthorStephen Briggs
ISBN0552144312
I don't read science fiction or fantasy. Some might say that Pratchett is a fantasy writer. I say that he is a humorous satirist. This is the book that started my love of his writing, with at least a giggle on nearly every page, and "the sentence" that made me want to read anything he writes... ever... for...
The Private Life of Elder Things
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN1911034022
From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world touches the domain of races ancient and alien? Museum curators, surveyors, police officers, archaeologists, mathematicians; from derelict buildings to country houses to the London...
Tragedy at Piddleton Hotel
AuthorEmily Organ
*** Shortlisted for Amazon UK's Kindle Storyteller Award 2019 ***

Armed with a handbag and fuelled by cake, Annabel Churchill is a mature yet tenacious private detective. Together with her quirky sidekick, Doris Pemberley, she's determined to solve mysteries and chase down criminals in...
The Lords of Creation
AuthorPhilip E. High
Gathered together for the first time are seven strange stories of the future from the wondrous imagination of Philip E. High

Man was bringing life to the planets: a carefully balanced programme of flora and fauna, but that life had to come from Earth, pre-adapted to survive and flourish. Man...
Dark Tales
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0241295424
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and...
Mr Finchley Discovers His England
AuthorVictor Canning
ISBN0330233963
3+ Stars. "What is a holiday without change and excitement?" Ask Edgar Finchley, Esquire. MR. FINCHLEY DISCOVERS HIS ENGLAND was Victor Canning's first novel and a runaway best seller in 1934; and now, his novels are being re-released. This one, first in a trilogy is old-fashioned and silly....yes,...
Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris
AuthorVictor Canning
ISBN0557087104
I received this from Netgalley.com for a review.

Second in the series, Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped.

Nice continuation...
Mr. Finchley Takes the Road
AuthorVictor Canning
ISBN0434107611
I received this from Netgalley.com for a review.

Book 3 of the classic trilogy. Mr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey, so he sets off alone to explore the countryside and go house-hunting.

Not...
An Air That Kills
AuthorAndrew Taylor
ISBN0340617136
I'm so glad this was my first read book in 2010! Way to start out the year.

If you like a British mystery with an old-time feel, written by a man who knows how to write(!), then you've found a great new series. I almost checked my "classics" shelf when I logged this one in, because in many ways it feels...
The Various Haunts of Men
AuthorSusan Hill
ISBN1585678767
Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton from London's "Met," police detective Freya Graffham explores her new community and becomes fascinated by Chief Insp. Simon Serrailler, her enigmatic superior. Though she fits well within the local police force, she finds herself unable...
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