Garry Kilworth

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1980
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Ensign Early

Scarlet Sash (Jun-2010)
Dragoons (May-2011)

Fancy Jack Crossman

1 - Rogue Officer (Oct-2007)
2 - Kiwi Wars (Sep-2008)

Welkin Weasels

1 - Thunder Oak (Sep-1999)
2 - Castle Storm (Sep-1999)
3 - Windjammer Run (Jan-2011)
4 - Gaslight Geezers (May-2011)
5 - Vampire Voles (Jan-2011)
6 - Heastward Ho! (Feb-2011)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • The Night of Kadar

    AN OLD WORLD DIES; A NEW AGE DAWNS After roving through space for centuries, a starship unburdens its cargo of human embryos on a harsh new world. They quickly grow to maturity in the ship's artificial womb. A lifetime of Earth memories is program...

  • Split Second

    When a young boy, Richard, goes too close to a Wiederhaus Repeater ("greatest archaeological break-through ever. Expose any prehistoric remains to it and it creates, briefly, complete hologrammatic images of the people who were in contact with them a...

  • A Theater of Timesmiths

    Trapped behind walls of towering ice, First City was a prison from which no one ever escaped. The Trysts ruled with an iron fist: violent death was a common sight on the streets.Morag MacKenzie was a mind-prostitute who gave erotic thought stimulatio...

  • Witchwater Country

    This is a book about the coming of age of four young boys who live on the edge of marshland country. The youths set off in search of the plane and remains of Amy Johnson, who crashed in the Thames Estuary at the end of WW2 and was never found. Their ...

  • Spiral Winds

  • Cloudrock

    On Cloudrock the penalty for imperfection is death: death by the long fall into the void, through the poisonous mists and gases that rise from the deadlands far, far below.The two tribes who survive on the Rock, the tribes of Day and Night, keep ...

  • The Songbirds of Pain

    Garry Kilworth's first collection shows him to be one of the most original and enjoyable writers in the field. The thirteen stories in The Songbirds of Pain mix science fiction and fantasy, with a dash of unclassifiable strangeness. Kilworth is parti...

  • The Silver Collar

    in Blood is Not Enough

    In this stunning new collection, GAHAN WILSON invites two hungry strangers to a beach party. One sports a grin, the other a saw... TANITH LEE invokes a dreadful demon in the mind of a love-starved woman ... JOE HALDEMAN carves a chilling verse of ter...

  • Abandonati

    Quasi-SF post-apocalyptic novel of Britain after the rich have abandoned the world to the poor. This humorous fable charts the odyssey of down-and-out Guppy and his companions - the "abandonati" - who are looking for the rich people and their afflue...



  • In the Hollow of the Deep-sea Wave

    To escape his life in England, John Trencher volunteers to teach schoolchildren on a tropical island. But paradise has its darker, less innocent side, and a web of violence, taboo and sexuality soon begins to wind itself around him. In the Hollow of ...

  • Rain Ghost

    Upon discovering an ancient dagger during an overnight hike, Steve encounters strange and frightening events that lead him to believe that his possession of the artifact has angered some warrior ghosts...

  • The Foxes of Firstdark

    This novel by a Booker Prize nominee is an engaging saga of two lovers paired for life, bound by strong family ties and firmly united by their terror of a common enemy. A familiar scenario, perhaps, but here the devoted couple is a pair of foxes--O-h...

  • Hunter's Moon

    A story of foxes, from O-ha and her six unborn cubs in Trinity Wood to Camio, an American Red Fox far away in his zoo cage. The animals in Trinity Wood feel safe from predators, but their world is changing, humans are coming closer with their bulldoz...

  • Midnight's Sun

    'The wolf Meshiska gave birth to five cubs on the night before full moon. Outside the den a storm was lashing the spruce trees. The sky and the land had become part of each other: a scatterwind night swirling with fragments of black and white. Snow b...

  • Standing on Shamsan

    Brought up in the Aden of the 1950s, Cass learns to absorb the ways of the Arab people. But when he returns in 1966 he is the enemy: a British soldier sent to quell the unrest caused by the British withdrawal. How can he fight for the land of his for...

  • Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands

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  • Archangel: On Earth As It Shall Be - In Hell

  • House of Tribes

    In every mouse's long life, there comes a time when ancestral voices tell him to move on. Pedlar, a yellow-necked mouse, has reached that point. Told to leave the Hedgerow and go on a long journey, the adventurous mouse says his farewells and sets ou...

  • Angel

    An angel is setting San Francisco afire. To destroy the fallen angels hiding on Earth he will stop at nothing, no matter how many innocents have to die. Now two police detectives have discovered the terrifying truth behind this epidemic of unexpla...



  • A Midsummer's Nightmare

    Sherwood Forest, home of Oberon, Titania, Puck, Cobweb, Peaseblossom and the rest of the mob, has been whittled away by urban development. It's time to move on, the fairies decide. Sid, their captive, a kindly if gruff young car mechanic, teaches Tit...

  • The Electric Kid

    In the year 2061, Hotwire, a girl, and Blindboy, a boy, live in the city dump, surviving by their wits and their extraordinary talents, but when their talents are noticed, they are kidnapped and pressed into service by a master criminal of the underw...

  • The Devil's Own - Sergeant Jack Crossman and the Battle of the Alma

    Sergeant John Crossman of the 88th regiment fighting in the Crimean War, is singled out by his commanding officer to go on a series of suicide missions - known as "fox hunts" - against the vicious Cossacks. Crossman is determined to whip his men into...

  • Highlander

    The much-praised novel of the original 1980s classic film, the inspiration for a new major blockbuster starring Henry Cavill 'There Can Be Only One'The battle rages across the centuries, from the wind-scoured Sahara to the wild Russian steppes to the...

  • Castle Storm

    Welkin Weasels - 2

    The land of Welkin is in trouble! Not only is it at risk of flood, but now the rat hordes are on the move, fighting to gain dominance over the other animals.... Sylver's search for the elusive humans - their only hope - leads him and his intrepid...

  • Thunder Oak

    Welkin Weasels - 1

    Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel - under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers - is pretty miserable (unless you hap,pen to be a weasel who LIKES living in a hovel and toiling all...

  • The Winter Soldiers

    The grim reality of war after “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and the cameraderie of professional soldiers come to life in award-winning author Garry Douglas Kilworth’s new historical series starring army officer, and occasional espionage age...

  • Attack on the Redan

    In the sequel to The Winter Soldiers, "Fancy Jack" concludes his Crimean tour of duty amid the brutal clash of the British and Russian empires. The year is 1855, the port of Sebastopol is still under siege by the Allies, and the czar's troops are put...

  • Rogue Officer

    Fancy Jack Crossman - 1

    The new Fancy Jack Crossman novel - The Indian Mutiny has almost run its course. Lieutenant Jack Crossman finds himself plagued by one Captain Deighnton, and the roots of Deighntons animosity appear to run deep. When Jack is abducted following the Ba...

  • The Silver Claw



  • Attica

    A novel with echoes of timeless classics such as THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, THE BORROWERS and ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Garry Kilworth's ATTICA reveals a twilight world of forgotten wonders, and extraordinary adventures - all happening just abo...

  • Kiwi Wars

    Fancy Jack Crossman - 2

    This is a thrilling new military adventure for Captain Jack Crossman.Captain 'Fancy Jack' Crossman has been sent to New Zealand, where the Maori Wars are in progress. His remit is to map the bush country and to set up a network of spies. During co...

  • Jigsaw

    April 29th:Krantu is a good way off the coast of Sarawak, a Malaysian island. No one lives on Krantu anymore and it'll soon sink into the sea. May 2nd:This is just like when I went on digs. Dad is up to his eyeballs in work. June 4th: He put the ed...

  • Alles In Ordnung

    in We Think Therefore We Are

    STEPHEN BAXTER * BRIAN STABLEFORD * ERIC BROWN JAMES LOVEGROVE * ADAM ROBERTS * TONY BALLANTYNE STEVEN UTLEY * MADLY YOUMANS * ROBERT REED PAUL DI FILIPPO * PATRICK O'LEARY * GARRY KILWORTH KEITH BROOKE * IAN WATSON * CHRIS ROBERSON Scientists...

  • The Hundred-Towered City

    What awaits Jack, Annie and Davey when they are transported back in time to the gothic city of Prague, to search for their missing parents? Trying to avoid capture by the secret police, they find themselves running through dark and dangerous cobbled ...

  • Scarlet Sash

    Ensign Early

    A Novel of the Zulu Wars - Ensign Sebastian Early is a young soldier sent to South Africa with his regiment, the 24th Foot. The death of his friend results in Seb taking over the job of Provost-Marshal, the policeman for Lieutenant-General Lord Chelm...

  • Windjammer Run

    Welkin Weasels - 3

    Sylver and his band of weasels take to the high seas in search of the humans who mysteriously deserted the land of Welkin many years ago. On their tail is the seasick Sheriff Falshed, commanded by the stoat rulers to stop Sylver at any cost. And if t...

  • Vampire Voles

    Welkin Weasels - 5

    The city of Muggidrear is crawling with vampires! Montagu Sylver, weasel detective, decides to go to the source of the problem - Slattland, across the sea. He is determined to stake the problem for once and for all! Followed by Welkin's police ch...

  • Heastward Ho!

    Welkin Weasels - 6

    Montegu Sylver, the famous weasel detective, is off to the East! Someone has stolen the priceless jade shoes of the Green Idol of the god Ommm, and the Great Pangolin of Far Kathay has asked Monty for his help. From the moment Monty and his friends s...

  • Dragoons

    Ensign Early

    An Ensign Early novel of the Anglo-Zulu War - South Africa, May 1879. Ensign Early of the 24th Foot division is only just warming to his role as the Provost-Marshal in the British army encampment at Landman’s Drift when an unidentified body turns u...



  • Gaslight Geezers

    Welkin Weasels - 4

    Montagu Sylver - a descendant of the famous outlaw, Sylver - is a famous weasel detective, intent on solving mysteries. Can he ferret out the truth when he learns that the anarchist Spindrick plans to blow everyone to smithereens with a fiendish bomb...

  • In the Country of Tattooed Men

    In the Country of Tattooed Men the nights feel hollow and are full of sounds of the jungle: danger is everywhere. Tattoos hide all from the prying eyes of the world. On Murderer's Walk the cards are dealt for the ultimate game. There can be only one ...

  • The Roof of Voyaging

    When Kupe, one of the great Polynesian voyagers, chases a huge octopus across the ocean, he discovers the strange and mysterious Land of Mists and rescues a man and a woman from the wild sea. He carries them back to the island of Raiatea where the pa...

  • Shadow Hawk

    Somewhere, deep in the mighty rainforest, is the Kingdom of the Sun Bear. And there, legend has it, are the seven ancient heads of the Punan - and the secret of untold riches.To find and possess the heads, a man must brave not only the terrifying cre...

  • The Sculptor

    An artist pays tribute to a cruel and powerful leader. Cunning and elegant short fiction from an author whose "Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog" was described by JG Ballard as "The best short story I have read for many years" and who has been described by...

  • Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop

    "Understand the one you hate." What did the old Chinese man smoke? He smoked his enemy, and when he had smoked the hated man he would know him."The best short story writer in any genre" (New Scientist)....

  • The Voyage of the Vigilance

    Woodworld is a lodestone world, a planet with a magnetic field so strong that it can pluck spaceships out of the sky. Which is exactly what happened to Maxy, the youngest cadet in the space fleet. Stuck on Woodworld, with little hope of ever being...

  • The Princely Flower

    THE EPIC FANTASY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND CONTINUES . . . Kieto's destiny, set in the heavens, is to conquer the Land-of-Mists, the mysterious island discovered by Kupe, one of the great Polynesian voyagers. But he knows it won't be easy: the wild ...

  • The Street

    The roads that made up the new Diamond Estate were all named after gems. There was Emerald Avenue, Ruby Close, Garnet Crescent . . . and Bloodstone Street.It started on the day the Peters family moved in. Patty was lying in the road and when her fart...

  • Frost Dancers

    Amongst the gorse and the heathers of his native highlands, Skelter the mountain hare enjoyed an idyllic life: browsing and gambolling; taking in the superb scenery and making female friends, including the beautiful Rushie. Then one day Skelter's lif...



  • Land-of-Mists

    It was always Keito's destiny to lead the Polynesian armies against the Celts and the Picts of the Land-of-Mists. And now the time has come. The Warriors are assembled, the boats are ready, and the gods are preparing for the confrontation.Only Seumas...

  • In Solitary

    Earth has been under alien domination by strange winged creatures for centuries. They keep the population severely limited and isolated; humans may only meet at occasional matings. The account of the resistance to the aliens, set largely in a beautif...

  • Tennyson's Ghost?

    This is a ghost story set in 1950's Britain. The main protagonist is a young teenager, Jill Brown, who goes to stay with her aunt in Lincolnshire. She encounters a ghost which she believes is the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (who...

  • The Fabulous Beast

    A set of beautifully crafted tales of the imagination by a writer who was smitten by the magic of the speculative short story at the age of twelve and has remained under its spell ever since.

    These few stories cover three closely related sub-...

  • Soldier's Son

  • Archangel

    In 1997 an angel fell to Earth. Dave Peters, and his sidekick in the San Francisco police squad, Danny, were right there at the time. Caught up in a supernatural war between good and evil, they had eventually tracked down the rogue entity and brought...

  • Gemini God

    The human race is in decline, is withdrawing into protective city shells. Could contact with civilised aliens revive the probing curiosity once the hallmark of human achievement? Are there any such beings in the Universe? If there are, can they be co...

  • Garry Kilworth SF Gateway Omnibus

    From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the work of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author, Garry Kilworth.In addition to a decorated career in SF ...

  • The Iron Wire

    In 1870 an enterprise began in Australia that was breathtaking in its ambition: to construct a single galvanised iron wire between Adelaide and Darwin, crossing two thousand miles of virtually unexplored wilderness. This was the Overland Telegraph Li...

  • The Best Short Stories of Garry Kilworth

    Stories from the back of the brain.

    These short stories span a period of 40 years. They are as eclectic as the insect world, ranging from the bizzare to the quixotic and back again. Plucked from an oeuvre of 145 stories, they are beautifully ...

  • The Sometimes Spurious Travels Through Time and Space of James Ovit

    In which unstoppable time meets immoveable space...

    James Ovit is a naive and slightly-lost maverick son of an elderly serial monogamist mother, whose mundane life is suddenly kick-started into headlong travel through time and space by a group of...

  • Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales

    Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales is a collection of stories that span some 20 years. They cover a variety of themes and are more different, in style as well as content, than they are similar. As the author himself says, "Some writers follow a path o...

  • Tales from the Fragrant Harbour

    These short stories were all penned in and around Garry Kilworth's time in Hong Kong.

    The collection is split half-and-half into general fiction stories and supernatural tales. They were all inspired by the people and places of that magic...

  • BLOOD MOON

    Blood Moon: a novella and eight standalone short stories from 'Arguably the finest writer of short fiction today, in any genre' (New Scientist). Scar, a lone grey wolf wandering the North Canadian plains, harbours a strange and burdensome secret...

  • The Wild Hunt

    When Gods meddle in the affairs of mortals, it never ends well... for the mortals.Wrongfully accused of his father's murder, Osric is forced to flee his homeland, barely escaping with his life. He vows to return one day in vengeance and reclaim his b...

  • The Gogamagog Circus

    Giants dwell the world over. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some with enormous bodies and some, occasionally, without. You may find them striding across the Salisbury Plain, wading through the oceans, or residing in the forests of a distant plane...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Garry Kilworth has published 65 books.

Garry Kilworth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Gogamagog Circus, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Garry Kilworth, The Night of Kadar, was published in March 1980.

Yes. Garry Kilworth has 3 series.
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