David Haynes

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1996
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Somebody Else's Mama

    As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother’s death and her husband’s detachment from the emotional life of his family.

  • Business As Usual

  • Live at Five

    Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for real life (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city in this touching and wickedly funny novel (Publishers Weekly) by one of Granta s Best Young american Noveli...

  • Heathens

    Marcus has the blues. His wife, LaDonna, is doing twenty-five days in the Shakopee Women's Detention Center for selling a house she didn't own--and putting a hex on the judge. LaDonna's marketing her own brand of facial cream called Madame LaDonna's ...

  • Right by My Side

    Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A Penguin ClassicWith wit and realism, David Haynes p...

  • All American Dream Dolls

    David Haynes “strikes out from the Waiting to Exhale formula” (Newsday) in a “hilarious” (Publishers Weekly), “consistently on-target” novel (Kirkus Reviews) about faithless boyfriends, spoiled siblings, preteen beauty queens, and Whitney...

  • The Full Matilda

    Matilda Housewright hails from a long line of venerable and well-respected African American retainers -- her family has been in “service” for generations, serving Washington, D.C., politicos and other upper-crust families. The daughter of the ind...

  • The Boy Who Kissed The Sky

    George Roberts believes that when he was nearly four years old he flew; not in an airplane, helicopter or other man made device and not exactly like a bird but he flew nonetheless.Join him sixteen years later as he takes a road trip across Europe to ...

  • Mask of the Macabre

    Four short tales of Victorian terror, each bound to the other by a chilling thread. The date is January 10th 1866 and the snow is falling thick on the blood soaked streets of a murderous London… Mask of The Macabre " A travelling magician appears...



  • Ballet of the Bones

    Four short tales of Victorian terror, each bound to the other by a chilling thread.London suffocates under the festering reek of its bursting graveyards. Ballet of the Bones " The curtain goes up on the greatest show on earth, but is everything all...

  • The Macabre Collection (Box Set)

    Step onto the shadowy streets of Victorian London and experience the terror of The Macabre Collection. 

    Three Books of terror for your dark and delicious entertainment. Dare you step inside...? 
    The date is January 10th 1866 and the snow ...

  • The Swimmer

    2nd Edition. The book was edited in March 2013. A battered and lifeless body is dragged from the stormy Atlantic Ocean onto an isolated cove in West Cornwall. Only one man has a clue about his identity and he's trying his hardest to turn away from th...

  • The Scream of Angels

    Montmartre, Paris 1901The city is alive with the spirit of La Belle Epoque - the beautiful era. It is a decadent time of artists and thinkers, of poets and dreamers. It is also a time for blood.The mysterious aristocrat Lord Cresswell offers struggli...

  • Seance of the Souls

    January 7th 1855Brookwood Cemetery, London.A boy weeps beside the grave of his dead father; his infant sister clings to his leg. It is another pitiless blow for a life already stained with blood.When all those you hold dear have been taken from you, ...

  • A Star in the Face of the Sky

  • The Undertaker's Cabinet

    In the town of Littleoak, Moreton & Sons have been burying the dead for over a century… and Bobby Moreton has had enough.When Richard Jacobs arrives and makes him an offer for the business, the offer is so good he's tempted. But there's something ...

  • Stitches and the Troublesome Stitch

    A tale of a scarecrow that has a stitch of thread across his mouth that causes him to mumble. He embarks on a journey to remove the stitch. Along the way he meets three unique characters that attempt to assist him in his quest. In humorous fashion al...

  • A Gathering of Ghosts

    In the shadows of Victorian England, the ghosts are gathering. Prepare to have your blood chilled by six tales of fear and phantasmagoria…The Silent Bell: A doctor’s invention to prevent people being accidentally buried alive backfires on him wit...

  • Where Is My Kitten?



  • But Mum

    'But Mum...' is a Children's Picture book that is designed for both the Child and Parent alike. It's primarily a light-hearted colourful picture book, complete with Dinosaurs, Pirates, Monkeys and Astronauts suitable for Children aged approx. 3-6 yea...

  • Beneath the Boards

    Beneath Jim Stokes’s shirt is a scar, one last horrific reminder of his old job in the police force. Beneath the everyday normality of the village Stormark is a shameful secret, haunting people’s dreams. Beneath the floorboards of the lake house ...

  • The Cage

  • I Can See You

    She was there when Chris was a boy, as she pulled his dad down into the roaring ocean. “I can see you.” She is there again now he’s a father himself, standing behind his own young son. “I can see you.” She is always there in Chris’s night...

  • Boo!

    Maldon Williams was nine years old when he saw a clown murder his parents. The clown used a kitchen knife to cut their throats from ear to ear, and blood dripped down the walls in thick, oozing rivers. Ben Night was once a successful author, whose ca...

  • Martha's Daughter

    Martha’s Daughter is David’s first short story collection and the first time that David’s stories have ever been assembled in one volume. The collection ranges from the magically real life of a city’s crumbling superhero to a ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Haynes has published 25 books.

The next book by David Haynes, Martha's Daughter, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by David Haynes, Somebody Else's Mama, was published in April 1996.

No. David Haynes does not write books in series.
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