Derek Wilson

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Nathaniel Gye

1 - Tripletree (Jun-2004)
2 - The Nature of Rare Things (Apr-2005)
3 - Unquiet Spirit (Jan-2007)

Tim Lacy

1 - The Triarchs (1994)
2 - The Dresden Text (1994)
3 - The Hellfire Papers (1995)
4 - The Camargue Brotherhood (1995)
5 - The Borgia Chalice (1996)
6 - Cumberland's Cradle (1996)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The Dresden Text

    Tim Lacy - 2

    When the Dresden Text - a treasured fragment of medieval illuminated manuscript - is stolen from a prestigious New York gallery, its loss hits Tim Lacy hard. His firm was responsible for the safety of the exhibits but even more devastatingly, a colle...

  • The Triarchs

    Tim Lacy - 1

    The first case for Tim Lacy, ex-SAS officer, security expert and well-respected figure in the art world, a circle made up of dubious dealers, unscrupulous collectors, fraudsters, crime bosses and bona fide connoisseurs, all in pursuit of the rare, th...

  • The Camargue Brotherhood

    Tim Lacy - 4

    At a meeting in East London, art dealer Catherine Lacy is shown six paintings from a previously undiscovered artist, Aristide Bertrand, who moved in the same circles as Van Gogh. She is enormously excited, but her husband, security expert Tim Lacy, ...

  • The Hellfire Papers

    Tim Lacy - 3

    When the Master of St Mary's House, Cambridge, hires Tim Lacy to retrieve a collection of eighteenth-century documents willed to it by a wealthy past member of the college, he omits to mention that these manuscripts have a possible connection with th...

  • The Borgia Chalice

    Tim Lacy - 5

    One of the most fabulous treasures of the Renaissance, the Borgia Chalice, carries with it a dark aura - for legend has it that the notorious Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, could use this cup to poison his enemies, yet drink from it himself witho...

  • Cumberland's Cradle

    Tim Lacy - 6

    Lanner Castle is a forbidding gothic building on an island in tiny Loch Huich. The locals know little about its present owner, the reclusive Mr Robertson, except that he is wealthy, writes antiquarian books and owns most of the comprehensive accumula...

  • Sweet Robin

    Few chroniclers have had a good word to say for Robert Dudley. Both his father and grandfather were executed for treason, he himself was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a young man, and his first wife died in suspicious circumstances. Yet he was...

  • World Encompassed

    In 1577, five tiny ships with 164 men set sail from Plymouth. At that time, Francis Drake had no idea that he was embarking on the greatest personal maritime adventure ever, nor that he would circumnavigate the globe. No mariner had attempted the fea...

  • Keene's Terror

    In the sequel to Keene's Quest, Keene is on another dangerous and historic mission -- to deliver a treasure chest of 5,000 louis d'or to Challoner's principal agent in Paris. But there are others who are after these funds, and can Challoner's agent b...



  • The Swarm of Heaven

    In pursuit of a private vendetta, the young Niccolo Machiavelli leaves his beloved Florence in the grips of the fanatical friar, Savonarola, and travels to Rome only to be lured into the service of Pope Alexander VI and his ambitious son Cesare. This...

  • Keene's Liberty

    In the autumn of 1793, shell-shocked from his experiences of Robespierre's Terror, George Keene heads for Philadelphia, where he has relatives. He wants to avoid further involvement in the British espionage campaign against Revolutionary France. But ...

  • Tripletree

    Nathaniel Gye - 1

    On a sultry summer night in 1994, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house in the heart of the Cotswolds where the event is being held, is s...

  • The Nature of Rare Things

    Nathaniel Gye - 2

    When paranormal investigator and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned by a dead man to find his killer, he dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. But when Nathaniel's own wife disappears--an eventuality foretold by...

  • Unquiet Spirit

    Nathaniel Gye - 3

    A haunting on F staircase in St. Thomas's College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit (PIU) is invited to carry out an experiment. The main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, ins...

  • Peter the Great

    There has never been a more remarkable national leader in modern history than Peter the Great (1672-1725). He was a giant in every way. In physical stature, willpower, enthusiasm, energy, libertinism, and refusal to accept old conventions, he stood h...

  • Mammoth Books presents The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity

    Watson begrudgingly visits relatives in Oxford only to find a case he did not know existed. He learns his dear friend was never at liberty to share the tale. Years have passed since the affair and with Holmes's passing Watson feels obliged to know th...

  • Magnificent Malevolence

    C. S. Lewis, who introduced Screwtape, a senior devil, to the world in 1942, knew that evil is powerful and personal. He understood that its main thrust was against God and the people of God.

  • Magnificent Malevolence: Memoirs of a Career in Hell

    Popular historian Derek Wilson came to prominence 40 years ago with A Tudor Tapestry. He is the highly acclaimed author of over 60 books and has written and presented numerous television and radio programmes. He lives and writes in Devon....

  • Sir Francis Walsingham

    During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy deci...



  • The Uncrowned Kings of England

    In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were unive...

  • Elizabethan Society

    The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's d...

  • Watching My Landlady

  • The Cromwell Enigma

    July 1540. The courts of Europe are stunned to hear that Henry VIII has executed his all-powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell.Poet and classicist Nicholas Bourbon is sent from the cultured court of Queen Marguerite of Navarre to investigate. Thrust int...

  • L.O.N.

    FIGHT... For What You Believe In! In the year 2023, the world has changed considerably. In an effort to end global warfare and massive loss of life, the world governments have come together to establish a four-year tournament called The League of Nat...

  • Keene's Quest

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    George Keene was blown to bits or drowned when HMS Spry exploded in the Bay of Biscay in March 1793. That, at least, is the story concocted by Sir Thomas Challoner, Pitt's spymaster general, so that he could give Keene a new identity and set him to w...

  • The King and the Gentleman

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    For all the myth surrounding Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I, there is no detailed account of any meeting between them. Yet they were almost exact contemporaries, embodying virtually everything for which politicians, bishops, preachers and general...

  • The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649

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    The Palace of St. James', 1649. Night. Armed soldiers guard a coffin resting in a dimly lit room. In it lies the shattered corpse of Charles I, King of England, head crudely reattached to torso. Past the guttering torches glides a human shadow, wide-...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Derek Wilson has published 27 books.

Derek Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, L.O.N., was published in March 2021.

The first book by Derek Wilson, The Dresden Text, was published in January 1994.

Yes. Derek Wilson has 2 series.
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