Savage Magic

6 best books like Savage Magic (Lloyd Shepherd): Supper Club, The Will of the Dead, Grimoire, The Infernal, You Were Gone, The Hidden People

Supper Club

Author	Lara Williams
ISBN	0525539581

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Roberta spends her life trying...

The Will of the Dead

Author	George Mann
ISBN	1781160015

A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s Baker Street lodgings. Maugram’s uncle is dead and his will has disappeared, leaving the man afraid that he will be left penniless. Holmes agrees to take the case and he and Watson dig deep into the murky past...

Grimoire

Author	Kim Wilkins
ISBN	0575067861

For centuries, magicians have compiled grimoires to call up demons. In Victorian London, one ambitious warlock, Peter Owling, designed a book of shadows to summon the Lord of the Demons - Satan himself. The plan backfired, Owling was killed and the book was ripped into four pieces and sent to the far...

The Infernal

Author	Kim Wilkins
ISBN	0091834171

This was a re-read from many years ago (about 25 years ago), and my reading maturity and preferences have changed. I remember liking this book a lot the first time. This time, it was a bit of a chore to get through; it felt padded and a wee bit labored, as if the author revisited plot points over and over in an...

You Were Gone

Author	Tim Weaver
ISBN	0718189000

Three days after Christmas, a woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper with the name of investigator David Raker on it. She tells officers that Raker is her husband.

SHE SAYS SHE'S MY WIFE.

When he turns up at the station, Raker is stunned. The woman...

The Hidden People

Author

Alison Littlewood

Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone, burned to death on her own hearth - but was she really a changeling, as her husband insists? Albie Mirralls met his cousin only once, in 1851, within the grand glass arches of the Crystal Palace, but unable to countenance the rumours that surround her murder, he leaves his young...