9 best-selling fantasy books like Bone China by Laura Purcell

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Bone China

By: Laura Purcell

3.65

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Bone China by Laura Purcell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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2. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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3. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

By: Katie Lumsden

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more

Similar categories in Katie Lumsden's The Secrets of Hartwood Hall book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

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5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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6. Melmoth

By: Sarah Perry

3.43

Format: None pages, Audiobook

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose com… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Melmoth book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"So we have free will I suppose." "More's the pity. I always thought it would be rather relaxing to have one's life organised by the Fates."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose…"

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

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7. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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9. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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10. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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11. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
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12. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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13. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. The Lost Ones

By: Anita Frank

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Some houses are never at peace. England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella March… read more

Similar categories in Anita Frank's The Lost Ones book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Bone China by Laura  Purcell

15. Bone China

By: Laura Purcell

3.65

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Bone China book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

16. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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17. The Fascination

By: Essie Fox

3.85

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

The estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities becomes fascinated with teenage… read more

Similar categories in Essie Fox's The Fascination book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. The Quickening

By: Rhiannon Ward

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feminist gothic fiction set between the late 19th century and the early 20th century - an era of bu… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Quickening book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
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19. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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20. The Lodger

By: Helen Scarlett

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

This second novel from the author of The Deception of Harriet Fleet takes us back to the aftermath … read more

Similar categories in Helen Scarlett's The Lodger book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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21. The Glass Woman

By: Caroline Lea

3.69

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman book and Laura Purcell's Bone China

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Love opens us, as an earthquake opens the earth."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"In love, every one of us is a cross, every one of us a Christ."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"She is a woman capable of violence. She is a woman who did what was necessary. She is a woman who has survived."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"We were but a step away from the vagrants and exiles who are left to beg by the roads until they were murdered by the cold and buried by the snow."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

21 Best fiction books like Bone China by Laura Purcell

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

Bridget Collins

4.06

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

Katie Lumsden

3.67

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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