Tamsin

10 best books like Tamsin (Peter S. Beagle): The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Ombria in Shadow, Little, Big, The Ropemaker, The Library of the Unwritten, American Fairy Tales, Chalice, The Stress of Her Regard, The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set, Solstice Wood

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
AuthorAlexis Hall
In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters.

Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere...
Ombria in Shadow
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441010164
Ombria is a place heaped with history -- and secrets. There is a buried city beneath it inhabited by ghosts, accessible only through magical passages and long-forgotten doorways. When the Prince of Ombria dies suddenly, his wicked great-aunt Domina Pearl seizes power by becoming regent to the prince's...
Little, Big
AuthorJohn Crowley
ISBN0061120057
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
AuthorPeter Dickinson
ISBN0385730632
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save...
The Library of the Unwritten
AuthorA.J. Hackwith
ISBN1984806386
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.

Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian...
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN0486236439
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0399246762
As the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master’s Circle. It is her duty to bind the Circle, the land and its people together with their new Master. But the new Master of Willowlands is a Priest of Fire, only drawn back into the human world by the sudden death of his brother....
The Stress of Her Regard
AuthorTim Powers
ISBN0441790976
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.

Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey...
AuthorJonathan Stroud
DON'T READ HARRY POTTER, READ THE BARTIMAEUS TRIOLOGY

The reason I liked this series was what it offered that many other fantasy books leave out. The story doesn't operate in a secluded location, disconnected form the rest of the world. In the trilogy the wizards are the elite, the rulers, the...
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441014658
The World Fantasy Award-winning author's foray into the modern world-now in paperback.

No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in many years-a tale of the tangled lives mere mortals lead,...
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679762221
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...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
AuthorAlec Nevala-Lee
ISBN0062571966
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.” — Publishers Weekly

"Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era. . . . A remarkable work of literary history." — Robert Silverberg

"Science fiction has...
The Books of Earthsea
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1481465589
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea—“…reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago” (David Mitchell)—comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating...
The Orc of Many Questions
AuthorShane Michael Murray
Orcs don’t like questions. Everybody with a brain knows that. Orc tribes save their strength for fighting, not thinking. They survive by raiding the lands of weaker races, repeating it year after year to offer tribute to the masters of their mountain home.

Life on Firebrand Peak is short...
¿Quién diablos eres?
AuthorRaquel de la Morena
ISBN8416327688
Alicia de la Vega, una joven periodista de origen español que vive en Nueva York con su madre y su hermana, comienza a trabajar para una revista especializada en fenómenos paranormales. Junto a un enigmático fotógrafo, se enfrentará a misteriosos casos sobrenaturales que pondrán a prueba su...
Nine Goblins
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Kingfisher wants to turn idea of goblins and elves on its head. Perhaps this is a side story to Lord of the Rings, where a band of somewhat lovable, somewhat gross goblins

There are some fabulous explanations of grumpy people goblin psychology as well: "Wherever a goblin happens to live, he complains...
Accepting the Lance
AuthorSharon Lee
ISBN1982124210

Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of the Interior’s infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to ground on the back-water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed as its weather. The old Boss-controlled fiefdoms largely fell to Pat Rin yos’Phelium’s...
Rojo y oro
AuthorIria G. Parente
ISBN8420485136
Escuchad mortales,
la historia de un dios que no quería vivir,
de una amazona obligada a matar
y de su libertad para siempre robada.
Aguardad y temed el despertar del caos:
cuando Eris abra los ojos,
la venganza al fin llegará.

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