Lud-in-the-Mist (Paperback)

from lunacat

Lud-In-The-Mist, on the banks of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, is focused around merchants and trade, Law and respectability. But a dark force lurks beneath the surface, coming out of the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Lands. It is 'fairie', slipping into the town via the forbidden and feared 'fai...

from twilightnocturne

In the country of Dorimare, the capital city of Lud-In-The-Mist lay at the confluence of two rivers about ten miles from the Elfin Hills and Elfin Marches. It also lay just miles from the Debatable Hills, which to those whom believe, leads to an exotic world called Fairyland -- one where the sile...

from milomidnight

The slightly dotty grandmother of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell... if you liked the latter, you will almost certainly adore this too. On a random tangent, I do so wonder at the connection of the North Of England with Faerie and Magic. And as someone born and bred in the North East, but no longer...

from elenchus

The story holds a pervasive charm even as it treats of somber and malefic aspects of life. Mirrlees simply opts to take it all as evidence of the world's Goodness, I think, and is no Pollyanna. In place of the horror of the young, then, the acceptance of those who have endured as well as enjoyed....

from electrascaife

A strange but sweet little fantasy novel about a town in which all things Fae or even slightly impractical are taboo, and so when evidence crops up that fairy fruit is being smuggled in from the neighboring faerie land, various kinds of heck start breaking loose. There are some beautiful turns of...