David Barnett

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Gideon Smith

0.5 - Work Sets You Free (Aug-2013)
0.7 - Business As Usual (Sep-2013)
1 - Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Angelglass

    In present-day Prague, an amnesiac is discovered on the outskirts of the city and slowly absorbed into a household of expatriates preparing for a massive anti-globalisation protest. In the Bohemian capital at the close of the 16th century, a man with...

  • Hinterland

    What is the shadowy beast that roams the lonely moors? Why does a mass-produced painting leave its owners horribly dead? Why does no-one speak of the lost girls living on a small island in the middle of the duck pond? Who sits in the sinister black c...

  • The Darlings of Soho

    This novel explores love, sexuality, and race. Four bombs have gone off in central London. One of those is at Kings Cross. The story opens with the desolate streets of Soho and the knowledge that the two lead characters, Greg and Martina have been sp...

  • Fair Winds To Perdition

    Born in 1717 the son of a wealthy farmer William Owen turned his back on the life of the gentry to pursue a more adventurous life at sea. His impatient desire to become rich soon led him into the rags-to-riches world of smuggling. He enjoyed long spe...

  • Work Sets You Free

    Gideon Smith - 0.5

    "Work Sets You Free", by David Barnett, is an original short story featuring the protagonist of the forthcoming novel Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (Tor Books [US] and Snowbooks [UK], September 2013). Gideon is a young fisherman in Yorkshire, ...

  • Business As Usual

    Gideon Smith - 0.7

    Spring, 1890, and England needs a hero. Gideon Smith is yet to step up to the role as public protector of the Empire, but in the background and the shadows, Mr Walsingham pulls strings to keep the often outlandish threats to Britain and her interests...

  • Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

    Gideon Smith - 1

    Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world -- including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London mi...

  • Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon

    Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire, a teeming metropolis where steam-power is king and airships ply the skies, and where Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world―including the east coast of Americ...

  • The Golden Apple of Shangri-La

    Flying straight from the pages of the Gideon Smith steampunk novels is airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, who in this tale pre-dating the books discovers that heroes do not necessarily always behave with honor.At the Publisher's request, this title is be...



  • Dust and Fury

    Set in the Sultanate of Oman this is an epic tale during the conflict known as the Dhofar Insurgency. It features the struggles of a simple impoverished mountain family which is torn apart by different ideals and loyalties. Mussalim, the eldest son o...

  • Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper

    In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire. Back in London, Gid...

  • Punks Not Dead, Vol. 1: Teenage Kicks

    As if being an awkward, bullied 15-year-old weren't enough, suddenly "Fergie" Ferguson can see ghosts. Well, one ghost specifically... a certain punk rocker named Sid.

    Sid's spirit had been trapped in London's Heathrow Airport for forty years,...

  • Punks Not Dead, Vol. 2: London Calling

    Teenage Fergie and his invisible sidekick, the ghost of a punk rocker named Sid, head to London to find Fergie's absent father while the Department of Extra-Usual Affairs, led by the irascible Dorothy Culpepper, and Fergie's mom face demons from hell...

  • Eve Stranger

    You have unlimited funds, a jet-set lifestyle, and extraordinary abilities. So what happens when you develop a sneaking suspicion you're working for the bad guys? Meet Eve Stranger, amnesiac for hire.

    Eve wakes up in a hotel room without knowi...

  • Beyond God's Realm

    Ardron was a village Saxon, the second son of the village Thegn, and content to be so. The conflict waging throughout the country for the crown of England between the Empress Matilda and Stephen Blois was a Norman war, and of no particular concern to...

  • Alien - Alien

    Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire....

  • Lowborn High

    What if Harry Potter had to go attend his local high school instead of the elite Hogwarts in this far more relatable spin on the magical school fantasy genre.For as long as anyone can remember, Wychdusk Manor has been the school to which all the top ...

  • Withered Hill

    'A terrific, unexpected twist' Guardian 'Withered Hill is the ultimate nightmare destination' Laird BarronInside A year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into the isolated Lancashire village of Withered Hill, naked, alone and with no memory ...

  • Scuttler's Cove

    The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives…Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries... until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.Now the ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Barnett has published 19 books.

The next book by David Barnett, Scuttler's Cove, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by David Barnett, Angelglass, was published in January 2010.

Yes. David Barnett has 1 series.
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