If you loved how Mr Norrell bargains with ministers in Whitehall and how Strange is dispatched to aid Wellington on the Peninsula, you'll savor the way Sorcerer to the Crown threads court politics with thaumaturgy. Zacharias Wythe inherits the post of Sorcerer Royal only to discover English magic is mysteriously dwindling—cue cabinet infighting, meddling societies straight out of the Learned Society of York, and fraught diplomacy with Faerie. It's witty, sharp, and brimming with the same deft mix of salons, scandal, and spellcraft that made the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair so dangerously charming.

Did the droll footnotes about John Uskglass, Vinculus, and obscure magical treatises make you grin? Pratchett's Going Postal is packed with cheeky annotations and an omniscient voice that builds a living, breathing bureaucracy as vivid as Starecross or the Royal Society of Magicians. Conman Moist von Lipwig is dragooned into reviving the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, sparring with guilds and reforming creaky institutions with Norrell-esque pedantry—and Strange-like panache. It's the same blend of scholarship, satire, and civic sorcery that turns paperwork into peril.

If Clarke's appendices, footnotes, and meticulous histories made you believe in the Raven King's lost roads, Addison's court of Ethuveraz will feel like home. Like following Strange through Horse Guards and Norrell through Hanover Square, you'll navigate a labyrinth of ceremony, titles, and intrigue as Maia learns to survive a court as treacherous as any deal with Faerie. The worldbuilding is so granular—protocols, language, architecture—that every audience and edict echoes the careful, scholarly texture you enjoyed.

If you were drawn to the slow accretion of wonder—from Norrell's first public feats in York Minster to Strange's perilous experiments with the King's Roads—Wecker's tale builds the same measured spell. Set in 1899 New York, a cautious golem and a headstrong jinni circle each other through immigrant neighborhoods, artisan workshops, and whispered legends, the way Strange and Norrell orbit through salons and libraries. Its pace invites the same deep immersion that made every footnote about the Raven King feel like a discovered relic.

If the evolving partnership between Strange and his reluctant mentor Norrell hooked you—from lessons in proper scholarship to dangerous improvisations—you'll enjoy PC Peter Grant learning magic under the exacting Inspector Nightingale. The Folly's rules and rituals echo Norrell's obsession with propriety, while Peter's fieldwork recalls Strange conjuring roadways and negotiating with uncanny beings. Expect dry wit, cases that brush against old river spirits as capricious as the Gentleman, and a modern London as enchanted as Clarke's Regency Britain.