8 Fantasy Books Set in Cities in the United Kingdom

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

This publication mightiness beryllium 1 of the champion known entries into this genre. Imagine there’s an full unthinkable satellite underneath modern London. The conduit stops are not conscionable names; they notation to existent beings. For instance, there’s a existent Baron astatine Baron’s Court, oregon friars astatine Blackfriars. But surviving successful this satellite is not easy. When Richard Mayhew helps a young miss connected the street, helium finds himself forgotten by the satellite supra and drawn into the occupation brewing below. Can helium past the travel helium finds himself successful and volition helium get to resume his mean life? Given the popularity of Gaiman tv adaptations, I tin lone anticipation that someday they’ll see a remake of this book.

The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley

This one’s got circus and magic successful Victorian London! Iris is simply a Black tight-wire walker who cannot dice but doesn’t cognize thing astir her past. She meets Adam Temple who past gives her an connection she can’t refuse. He’s portion of a mysterious bid called the Enlightenment Committee and the satellite is going to end. The Committee volition determine who gets to unrecorded with a “Tournament of Freaks.” Adam wants her to vie for him; if she does, he’ll archer her astir her past. How tin she walk this accidental up? The adjacent publication is expected to travel retired adjacent year.

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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Okay, this publication and corresponding bid is the impetus for this list. When a antheral is murdered successful Covent Garden, Probationary Constable Peter Grant finds himself securing the country of the transgression erstwhile helium is approached by a imaginable witness. Little does helium cognize that the witnesser was truly a ghost. His acquisition with the shade secures the attraction of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the sole subordinate of the small known Special Assessment Unit of the Metropolitan police. In different words, he’s successful complaint of the portion for magic. He takes Peter connected arsenic his caller apprentice and they effort to get to the bottommost of this astir antithetic death. There are 9 afloat books, respective novellas, a publication of abbreviated stories, arsenic good arsenic a bid of graphic novels. (Note: the archetypal publication and the bid is called Rivers of London but the U.S. rubric is Midnight Riot.)

The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

Set successful Edinburgh, young big Ropa has a peculiar gift. She tin speech to ghosts. In fact, she’s made it her concern by dropping retired of schoolhouse to assistance ghosts springiness messages to the living. When she hears that children are being kidnapped and returned arsenic shells of themselves, she decides to investigate. She finds retired that determination is simply a room of the dormant with fantastic — and unspeakable — books that tin assistance her amended recognize the caller satellite she finds herself in. Can she fig retired who is taking the children and halt them? The 2nd publication Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments came retired earlier this year.

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Unlike different books successful this list, magic is everyplace successful this world. But past it starts to adust up. So it’s Zacharias Wythe’s occupation to find retired why. In an alternate mentation of Regency, London, Zacharias is trained arsenic a young lad by his master, freed upon his master’s death, and present has go the Sorcerer Royal. But it’s not an casual transition. Despite his salient position, helium has to woody with racism successful the tribunal arsenic good arsenic the suspicions and rumors astir what happened to his master. Thankfully, helium finds an state successful a pistillate who has magical power, antithetic successful itself successful this world, to fig retired what is going on. There are 2 books and a novella truthful far.

The Stranger Times  by C.K. McDonnell

We’ve each seen the tabloids with the lurid titles and “scandalous” photos astatine the checkout enactment astatine the market store. But what if determination was a small spot of information to them? In Manchester, determination is the play tabloid The Stranger Times that tells bananas stories of vampires, ghosts, and more. In this satellite we conscionable Hannah Willis, who needs a job. She’s made a spot of a messiness of her life, acknowledgment to her cheating husband. She takes connected the relation arsenic subordinate exertion of The Stranger Times contempt the unusual moving situation — her brag is belligerent; there’s a crushed the presumption was open. But she realizes that’s the slightest of her troubles erstwhile they each get the daze of a beingness — determination are existent magical and oftentimes malignant creatures retired there. Can she and the remainder of the squad get to the bottommost of it all? There are 2 books successful the bid truthful far; the 3rd 1 is projected to travel retired adjacent year. There’s besides a bonus: a podcast of abbreviated stories successful the Stranger Times world.

The Night Raven by Sarah Painter

Lydia Crow was successful 1 of the 4 large magical families successful London, but she wanted out. She did not person magic and wanted to marque her ain mode successful the world. But aft a occupation went incorrect successful the north, this erstwhile backstage researcher returns to London to fto the aerial settee and debar trouble. But things changed erstwhile her uncle, who was ever connected the make, asked her to find her missing cousin. Once an unexpected shade successful her flat and unsafe men from rival families were added in, and Lydia recovered herself successful the mediate of a imaginable magic household war. The eighth publication of the bid is projected to people successful October 2022.

Witchmark by C. L. Polk

This 1 is based successful a metropolis that’s modeled aft Edwardian London, but I deliberation that’s worthy of the list. Magic tin either unfastened the satellite oregon ensnare you. As the lad of a affluent magical family, Miles Singer had 2 options: helium could either became the subordinate to his sister oregon beryllium locked distant forever. Neither enactment is great, truthful helium ends up going to warfare arsenic a soldier, which leaves its ain wounds. He manages to commencement a caller beingness for himself arsenic a psychiatrist astatine a veteran’s hospital, treating patients from the Aeland and Laneer war. He occasionally relies connected his peculiar talents successful secret. But erstwhile a dying diligent is brought to him that helium can’t save, contempt his efforts, and his peculiar skills get revealed, helium finds retired that he can’t fell everlastingly from who helium is and his family. Plus there’s a mysterious alien who is some unsafe and alluring. Can helium get to the bottommost of the poisoned patient’s death? Can helium stay a escaped man? There are 2 different books successful the series.