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Time slip novels

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Bbq1 · 27/09/2022 23:28

I absolutely love reading time slip novels. I've read all of Nicola Cornick's series and I've just finished the second instalment in Kelley Armstrong's Stitch in time series. Can anyone please recommend any more novels in the same genre? I've googled it and searched everywhere but there seems to be very few authors writing this type of novel.
Tia

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achillesshield · 13/10/2022 08:04

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 13/10/2022 08:06

Time travellers wife

woodhill · 16/10/2022 16:48

@achillesshield

Thanks for the Susana Kersley recommendation, managed to borrow the Rose Garden from library and it is excellent so far, time slip indeed😀

I like to try new authors

FeralWitch · 16/10/2022 17:29

Definitely read Kindred by Octavia Butler; it’s brilliant.

Always4Brenner · 16/10/2022 17:35

VioletMcRobins · 28/09/2022 20:04

Barbara Erskine - loved Lady of Hay and Kingdom of Shadows!

Fabulous books.

Always4Brenner · 16/10/2022 17:36

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 28/09/2022 14:45

All my favourite time slip books are technically children's books

A Traveller in Time
Tom's Midnight Garden
Charlotte Sometimes
Moondial

A Traveler in Time fabulous book got the dvd put away for Christmas.

RedDwarfGarbagePod · 16/10/2022 17:40

The House on the Strand
Tom's Midnight Garden
A Traveller in Time

So happy to see a couple of my childhood favourites on this list!

Earthfasts is also worth a look, although not quite a timeslip.

achillesshield · 16/10/2022 18:04

@woodhill

Oh good, thanks. I'm glad you're enjoying her writing.

DrCoconut · 16/10/2022 18:42

The Liverpool brides series by Michelle Vernal. I found some of the Americanisms used annoying as it's set in the UK but the idea is good and the stories are really nice light reading.

StripyHorse · 22/10/2022 22:56

Technically not time slip, but the main character in How to Stop Time (Matt Haig) ages really slowly so has been around 100s of years. It has a similar kind of feel to the novel.

MegBusset · 22/10/2022 23:05

Red Shift - Alan Garner

Aghxmas · 22/10/2022 23:41

Thanks to a wonderful pp who mentioned st mary’s on a different thread, it’s so good and funny and everything.
good old mn!

KillingMeDeftly · 23/10/2022 09:14

Barbara Erskine's earlier time slip novels are excellent. I find her more recent ones to be much of a muchness and fairly indistinguishable from each other - woman moves to or inherits cottage in middle of nowhere after a bad breakup or being widowed, neighbour is a man who's attractive but stand-offish at first, woman discovers ghost story or time slip element, ex is vengeful and possibly possessed by spirit of time slip heroine's nemesis! They're absorbing enough reads at the time but a bit forgettable.

Shekissedagirlandshelikedit · 23/10/2022 09:46

A Time to Change by Callie Langridge. A woman loves an old crumbling house and while wandering around ends up going back in time 100 years to the house in Edwardian times.

The following books are really fun time travel/slip stories that stay within the 70s/80s so loads of great references and memories of those times!

The Jason Apsley Series (3 books) by Adrian Cousins. The main character is teleported back to the 70s into the lufe of another man. Easy to read, cleverly written.

It's Payback time, also Adrian Cousins (I'm in the middle of this right now and can't put it down).

James Crookes -
The Do They Know it's Christmas Yet? Did They Steal a Million Yet?
Wish you Were Here Yet? (published soon)

Adam Eccles -

Time For a Change
Need a Little Time
System Restored

Bbq1 · 23/10/2022 11:25

So many new authors and books to explore. Thanks for all the great suggestions.

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woodhill · 23/10/2022 13:13

KillingMeDeftly · 23/10/2022 09:14

Barbara Erskine's earlier time slip novels are excellent. I find her more recent ones to be much of a muchness and fairly indistinguishable from each other - woman moves to or inherits cottage in middle of nowhere after a bad breakup or being widowed, neighbour is a man who's attractive but stand-offish at first, woman discovers ghost story or time slip element, ex is vengeful and possibly possessed by spirit of time slip heroine's nemesis! They're absorbing enough reads at the time but a bit forgettable.

I liked the one set on the Welsh border which involved the church which was the first one I had read of hers

KillingMeDeftly · 23/10/2022 14:47

@woodhill a lot of her books are set in the Welsh borders! Do you mean Lady of Hay? That was her first book. I think it must be coming on for 40 years old now and the version I have has a "25 years later" short story at the end.

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Moonwalkingagain · 23/10/2022 15:26

Barbara Eskine is really good.. Try Midnight is a Lonely Place & River of Destiny. The last few she has written haven’t been as good, but her earlier works are memorable.

I also loved ‘The True’ by Amanda Marks. A fabulous debut novel

woodhill · 23/10/2022 15:28

It was Dreamweavers but also liked Lady of Hay

KillingMeDeftly · 23/10/2022 15:36

Oh that's her most recent one! I quite liked it as it deviated a bit from her usual formula and the story of Eadburgh has always intrigued me.

woodhill · 23/10/2022 15:38

I liked the drama with Sandra in it

I'd never read her before

mrsdolittle · 23/10/2022 15:52

I see someone has already recommended Susanna Kearsley but just to add that all of her books are time slip to a degree.

My absolute favourite is Marianna, and the Winter Sea followed by The Firebird are just wonderful. But basically can't go wrong with her

mrsdolittle · 23/10/2022 15:55

And if you like children's books KM Peyton wrote a lovely one called A Pattern of Roses

Squirrelsnut · 23/10/2022 15:55

The Sterkham Handshake is brilliant. Absolutely couldn't put it down.

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