Books by Gail Carriger
“This is the second series from Gail Carriger. Really, any of Gail’s stuff is great, but Etiquette and Espionage was more overtly steampunk than her earlier series had been. It features a fourteen-year-old girl named Sophronia who is sent away to a finishing school, which is a lovely pun in these books: a finishing school is where you go to learn manners, and this finishing school is where you go to learn manners and to finish people off. It’s literally a school for young assassins who will enter society. They know which fork to eat with or whatever, but they also know how to stab you with it and take you out. So it’s very fun.” Read more...
Mike Perschon, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Gail Carriger were recommended
The Best Steampunk Books, recommended by Mike Perschon
Whatever genre you love, it can be made steampunk, argues ‘The Steampunk Scholar’ Mike Perschon. He talks us through his top five choices, and shows how the core elements of the steampunk style are being recombined to create rollicking and original adventures – from alternate Civil War tales to flying whales.
