The Golden Horn

10 best books like The Golden Horn (Judith Tarr): The Dark Days Deceit, Frederica, This Boy's Life, Greenwitch, The Travelling Bag, The Place on Dalhousie, The Cry of the Go-Away Bird, The Kindred of Darkness, Magistrates of Hell, Darkness on his Bones

The Dark Days Deceit
AuthorAlison Goodman
ISBN0670785490
The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen's demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world.

Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She...
Frederica
AuthorGeorgette Heyer
ISBN0099465647
Rich and handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at seven-and-thirty sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help. When Frederica Merriville brings...
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0802136680
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily...
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN0689840349
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance...
AuthorSusan Hill
From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

In the title story, on a murky evening in a club off St James,...
The Place on Dalhousie
AuthorMelina Marchetta
ISBN0143793535
'You look the type to break your father’s heart.'
'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’

When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed....
The Cry of the Go-Away Bird
AuthorAndrea Eames
ISBN1846553733
Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean...
The Kindred of Darkness
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0727883429
When James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the...
Magistrates of Hell
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0727881582
James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate...
Darkness on his Bones
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0727885235
Simon. Something frightful has happened to Jamie. Please come...

When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person to call: the vampire Don Simon Ysidro....
Pale Guardian
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0727886770
During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat.
The vampires call them The Others . Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable and in the carnage of the First World War, governments already running...
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