by Natasha Pulley
A gold pocket-watch left in Thaniel Steepleton's apartment saves him from an explosion several months later. Investigation leads him to Japanese watchmaker Keita Mori. How could the watch predict when the bombing would occur? With threats of more bombings looming Thaniel agrees to help Scotland Yard...
In 1883, Thaniel returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocket-watch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori – a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Meanwhile,...
I don't know how to properly review this without getting super spoilery, so the following non-spoilery ramblings probably won't be all that helpful to anyone but me. Oh well. I'm having trouble parsing my feelings for this book. It's subtle and clever and intricately plotted, but it took too long ...
I won this book through GoodReads.This story centers round Thaniel Steepleton, who works has a telegraphist at the home office. After returning home one might he finds a pocket watch in his room.A watch that he can't open. Whileworkng at the home office he hears of bomb threats against scotland yard...
What an unexpected pleasure! I actually listened to Thomas Judd's audiobook performance of this one instead of reading it; I'd recommend it highly.
It is hard to pigeonhole this book. Literary? I’m not sure. Historical? Kind-of. It does deal with a historical period. Steampunk? Not really, even though the characters have some paranormal abilities, and the Victorian era adds credibility to such a label. The closest I can come up with is magic re...
What if there were no coincidences? This isn’t to say that everything happens because of Providence, but what if what we thought were coincidences were in fact carefully arranged events? Until Thaniel Steepleton found an elaborate watch in his curiously un-burgled flat after returning home early fro...
An intriguing mix of old and new, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street tells a very visual tale, with elements of steampunk fiction. The book sets up to be about the mystery of bombings in London and about Thaniel Steepleton; more truly, it is about the watchmaker and the friendship between these two v...
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