Jane-Emily

10 best books like Jane-Emily (Patricia Clapp): The Glass Sentence, The Crown of Dalemark, The Spellcoats, The Ghost Belonged to Me, The Homeward Bounders, Drowned Ammet, The Ghost Next Door, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction, Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories

The Glass Sentence

Author	S.E. Grove
ISBN	0670785024

She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous.
 
Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World—a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents...

The Crown of Dalemark

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0064473163

This is a long ‘un, folks.

Let me begin this with a confession: I am rating this book more by nostalgia than truth. It’s a horrible choice, I know. It inflates the rating and gives first-time readers a false impression. But, frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn.

I read the Dalemark...

The Spellcoats

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0064473155

The Spellcoats is one of the first books I ever read by Diana Wynne Jones and is still one of my favorites. With her tenth published novel, she demonstrates a maturity that marks the rest of her career; as good as her previous works are, with The Spellcoats she plays with first person limited POV and the clash...

The Ghost Belonged to Me

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0140386718

"More death! More, if you do not stop it. Others lost, like me in the black water. Save them!"When Alexander first sees the eerie glow in the dormer window of the barn, it sets his heart pounding. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom Culp's...

The Homeward Bounders

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0749702818

"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner."

When Jamie unwittingly discovers the sinister,...

Drowned Ammet

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0064473147

Diana Wynne Jones doesn't make the worldbuilding too easy to follow. I remember reading in her collected non-fiction writings that she found that children made the leaps her books require much more easily than adults do. So I try to think like a child when I read her work (it sort of pleases me, the way people...

The Ghost Next Door

Author	Wylly Folk St. John
ISBN	0671442902

Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda...

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Author	A.S. Byatt
ISBN	0679762221

The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	0061057827

A stunning anthology of sensuous short fiction and magical erotica explores the seductive world of mysterious, mythic sirens--men and women--who draw readers into a forbidden zone of fantasy and desire, in works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Swanwick, Tanith Lee, and other outstanding...

Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0333376137

Diana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back...

Giant Days, Vol. 11

Author	John Allison
ISBN	1684154375

It’s Daisy, Esther and Susan’s third year at university, and with that comes new beaus, new jobs, and new adventures.

The third (and final!) year of university is finally here, and BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan are in for some surprising upsets in their first semester. Between Halloween...

The Uninvited

Author

Dorothy Macardle

Brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald flee their busy London lives for the beautiful but stormy Devon coastline. They are drawn to the suspiciously inexpensive Cliff End, feared amongst locals as a place of disturbance and ill omen. Gradually, the Fitzgeralds learn of the mysterious...