The Spellcoats

10 best books like The Spellcoats (Diana Wynne Jones): Magician's Ward, Minor Mage, The Door in the Hedge, Jane-Emily, Book of Enchantments, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction, 極主夫道 1, A Fatal Secret, The Night Raven

AuthorPatricia C. Wrede
ISBN0312853696
When Mairelon made Kim his ward, he promised to teach her to be a lady and a magician. But magic proves to be harder than it looks for a girl who has just learned to read, and being a lady is even harder. Before frustration - and Merrill's formidably correct aunt - can drive her mad, a mysterious gentleman attempts...
Minor Mage
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day.

He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental...
The Door in the Hedge
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0698119606
Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays-and Linadel's seventeenth...
AuthorPatricia Clapp
ISBN0688045928
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.

Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....
AuthorPatricia C. Wrede
ISBN0152055088
Wrede [pronounced as "Reedy"] is one of my favorite authors, and IMO one of the best writers of English-language fantasy fiction in her generation. Equally at home with long and short fiction, she showcases her talent for the latter in this collection of 10 stories, four of them published here for the...
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...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0061057827
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...
極主夫道 1
AuthorKousuke Oono
ISBN4107721043
A gag manga is only as good as the main gag. The entire point of a good gag manga is that it can take that one joke, use it in various situation while keeping it fresh, and most importantly funny. It has to be repetitive, without feeling repetitive. Fortunately in the case of this series, the joke is exceptionally...
A Fatal Secret
AuthorFaith Martin
‘Great characters, great plot and a totally dazzling finish… Wonderful.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars Oxford, 1961 A family day out at Briar’s Hall ends in tragedy when a young boy goes missing – and his body is found at the bottom of a disused well in the orchard.It looks like a simple case of...
The Night Raven
AuthorSarah Painter
Meet Lydia Crow...

Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London.

When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls...
Part-Time Gods
AuthorRachel Aaron
Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you’re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible.

My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns...
The Thief Who Went To War
AuthorMichael McClung
Don't get noticed.

That's the first thing the world taught me about survival. When I was very young, and my father was very drunk, I'd hide, silent and still, in the muck under the shack we inhabited. There I listened to his stone fists pummel my mother. He would not have pulled his punches for me;...
Giant Days, Vol. 11
AuthorJohn Allison
ISBN1684154375
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...
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