If you like this, then you might like that... Part III

Here is part III of my recommendations ''If you like this, then  you might like that':

Crime Fantasy in London:

Neil Gaiman
''Neverwhere''

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Richard, a young Scot living in London helps a bleeding girl, Door - a noblewoman whose family has been murdered, by taking her off the side walk and into his home.
Soon after, the mysteries begin by him seeming to vanish. He goes into the London Underworld, a subterranean labyrinth of creatures of mythology to try to bring his life back in order again.

 

 Ben Aaronovitch
''Rivers of London'' series

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This is a series of books centring around Peter Grant, a young Police officer in London.
After an encounter with a ghost, he is being taken into a special unit that solves crimes done and being done to supernatural beings.




Historical Fiction in Victorian London:

Michel Faber
''The Crimson Petal and the White''

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This is the story about Sugar, a prostitute in Victorian London, and how a heir of a perfume business, William, becomes obsessed with her. He takes her into his family as a nanny, where she slowly replaces the wife and mother (in short, the ideal Victorian woman) of the household, Agnes, who is too fragile for the real world. 



Jennifer Donnelly
''The Tea Rose''

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Fiona, daughter of Irish immigrants in Victorian London, works at a tea factory and has to make her way in the city's renown East-End. Her father, who is a leader of the forming labour union, gets murdered and the love of her life, Joe, is tricked into marrying another girl.
In order to survive, she flees to America in search of her uncle to begin a new life.
This is the first part in a trilogy.



Magical Realism and Vanishing Young Woman in Greece:

Haruki Murakami
''Sputnik Sweetheart''

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As usually in a Murakami novel, we follow a young lonesome man, K., who is in love with an unattainable young woman, Sumire.
When Sumire goes missing on a trip in Greece, K. goes looking for her and discovers some secrets of hers, and some not.
Murakami's addictive writing style is paired with his typical touch of Magical Realism that leaves you nicely confused.


John Fowles
''The Magus''

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We follow Nicholas, an English undergraduate who comes into a teaching position on a small Greek island. He becomes entangled with a local millionaire and a young woman living with him and gets dragged into their world of deception and lies. A postmodern piece of work, this is one of the most confusing reads you'll ever encounter. But! In the end, it's definitely worth the roller coaster of emotion it takes you through.