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A tactile, slow-burn historical fantasy where memories are bound in leather and forbidden love fights to be remembered. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Binding.
- autumnal
- shadowed
- intimate
- bittersweet
- 01
Weyward
Emilia Hart
A fierce, earthy tapestry of female resilience and the untamed magic that flows through generations of women.
- 02
A Marvellous Light
Freya Marske
A sparkling, tension-filled romp through a magical Edwardian England, anchored by a fiercely compelling grumpy-sunshine romance.
- 03
Sorcerer to the Crown
Zen Cho
A sparkling, magical comedy of manners that hides a razor-sharp critique of empire beneath its polite drawing-room banter.
- 04
Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
A chilling, atmospheric tale of female resilience and forbidden love blooming in the shadow of religious zealotry.
- 05
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
A delightfully dry, footnote-filled expedition into a wintry village where the faeries are dangerous and the academic rivalries are even more treacherous.
- 06
The burning page
Genevieve Cogman
A breathless, dimension-hopping heist where the fate of the multiverse rests on the shoulders of a dangerously competent librarian.
- 07
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
A fierce, autumnal fairy tale about fractured sisters weaving forgotten magic into a revolution.
- 08
Affinity
Sarah Waters
A claustrophobic, slow-burn descent into Victorian spiritualism and forbidden desire that tightens like a corset before leaving you breathless.
- 09
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
A lush, devastating portrait of a marriage and the unimaginable grief that birthed a masterpiece.
- 10
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
A masterclass in mounting dread that will make you look twice at the shadows in your own home.
- 11
A Restless Truth
Freya Marske
A sparkling, locked-room magical murder mystery wrapped in a swoony, opposites-attract sapphic romance.
- 12
Witchmark
C. L. Polk
A gaslit blend of murder mystery, political intrigue, and tender romance set in the shadow of a magical world war.
