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    71 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Crown of the Blood

1 - The Crown of the Blood (Jul-2010)
2 - The Crown of the Conqueror (Aug-2011)
3 - The Crown of the Usurper (Aug-2012)

The Khul

1 - The Red Feast (Nov-2019)

The Last Chancers

1 - Deliverance (Apr-2006)
2 - 13th Legion (Jan-2001)
3 - Liberty (Apr-2006)
4 - Kill Team (Oct-2001)
5 - Annihilation Squad (Apr-2004)

Legacy of Caliban

1 - Ravenwing (Jan-2013)
2 - Master of Sanctity (Jul-2014)
3 - The Unforgiven (Jul-2015)
4 - Legacy of Caliban: The Omnibus (Oct-2016)

Masters of Stone and Steel

1 - The Doom of Dragonback (Oct-2014)
2 - Grudge Bearer (Jul-2005)

Phoenix Lords

1 - Asurmen: Hand of Asuryan (Sep-2015)
2 - Jain Zar: Storm of Silence (Nov-2017)

Rise of the Ynnari

1 - Ghost Warrior (May-2018)
2 - Wild Rider (May-2019)

Salves to Darkness

1 - The Claws of Chaos (Oct-2002)
2 - Blades of Chaos (Oct-2003)
3 - Heart of Chaos (Oct-2004)

The Sundering

1 - Malekith (Jan-2009)
2 - Shadow King (Jan-2010)
3 - Caledor (May-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Beast Arises

3 - The Emperor Expects (Mar-2016)
8 - The Beast Must Die (Aug-2016)

Eldar

1 - Path of the Warrior (Jul-2010)
2 - Path of the Seer (Sep-2011)
3 - Path of the Outcast (Sep-2012)

Horus Heresy

18 - Deliverance Lost (Dec-2011)
38 - Angels of Caliban (Dec-2016)
40 - Corax (Apr-2017)

Horus Heresy: Primarchs

5 - Lorgar: Bearer of the Word (Oct-2017)

Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra

3 - The First Wall (Mar-2020)

Realmgate Wars

6 - Warbeast (Mar-2017)

A Space Marines Battles Novel

4 - The Purging of Kadillus (Jan-2011)

Space Marine Legends

4 - Azrael (May-2017)

Space Marine Conquests

2 - The Ashes of Prospero (Mar-2018)

Warhammer

Ancestral Honour (Jul-2001)
Tybalt's Quest (Jul-2001)
The Claws of Chaos (Oct-2002)
Blades of Chaos (Oct-2003)
Heart of Chaos (Oct-2004)
Grudge Bearer (Jul-2005)
Malekith (Jan-2009)
Shadow King (Jan-2010)
Caledor (May-2011)
The Curse of Khaine (Apr-2015)
Warbeast (Mar-2017)

Warhammer 40,000

Suffer Not the Unclean to Live (1990)
13th Legion (Jan-2001)
Kill Team (Oct-2001)
Raptor Down (Apr-2002)
Angels of Darkness (Mar-2003)
Annihilation Squad (Apr-2004)
Deliverance (Apr-2006)
Liberty (Apr-2006)
Path of the Warrior (Jul-2010)
The Purging of Kadillus (Jan-2011)
Path of the Seer (Sep-2011)
Path of the Outcast (Sep-2012)
Ravenwing (Jan-2013)
Mission: Purge (Jul-2013)
Master of Sanctity (Jul-2014)
The Unforgiven (Jul-2015)
Asurmen: Hand of Asuryan (Sep-2015)
The Emperor Expects (Mar-2016)
The Beast Must Die (Aug-2016)
Legacy of Caliban: The Omnibus (Oct-2016)
Azrael (May-2017)
Jain Zar: Storm of Silence (Nov-2017)
The Ashes of Prospero (Mar-2018)
Sin of Damnation (Jul-2018)
Imperator (Oct-2018)
Our Martyred Lady (Feb-2019)
Knights of Caliban (May-2019)
On Wings of Blood (Sep-2019)
Indomitus (Aug-2020)
Armageddon Saint (Oct-2020)

Warhammer Universe

Suffer Not the Unclean to Live (1990)
Birth of a Legend (2000)
The Faithful Servant (2000)
13th Legion (Jan-2001)
Kill Team (Oct-2001)
Raptor Down (Apr-2002)
The Claws of Chaos (Oct-2002)
Angels of Darkness (Mar-2003)
Blades of Chaos (Oct-2003)
Annihilation Squad (Apr-2004)
Heart of Chaos (Oct-2004)
Grudge Bearer (Jul-2005)
Deliverance (Apr-2006)
Liberty (Apr-2006)
Malekith (Jan-2009)
Shadow King (Jan-2010)
Path of the Warrior (Jul-2010)
The Purging of Kadillus (Jan-2011)
Aenarion (Mar-2011)
Caledor (May-2011)
Deliverance Lost (Dec-2011)
Path of the Outcast (Sep-2012)
The Sundering (Sep-2012)
Ravenwing (Jan-2013)
Mission: Purge (Jul-2013)
Path of the Eldar Omnibus (Feb-2014)
Master of Sanctity (Jul-2014)
The Doom of Dragonback (Oct-2014)
The Curse of Khaine (Apr-2015)
The Unforgiven (Jul-2015)
Asurmen: Hand of Asuryan (Sep-2015)
The Emperor Expects (Mar-2016)
The Beast Must Die (Aug-2016)
Legacy of Caliban: The Omnibus (Oct-2016)
Angels of Caliban (Dec-2016)
Warbeast (Mar-2017)
Corax (Apr-2017)
Azrael (May-2017)
Lorgar: Bearer of the Word (Oct-2017)
Jain Zar: Storm of Silence (Nov-2017)
The Ashes of Prospero (Mar-2018)
Ghost Warrior (May-2018)
Sin of Damnation (Jul-2018)
Imperator (Oct-2018)
Our Martyred Lady (Feb-2019)
Knights of Caliban (May-2019)
Wild Rider (May-2019)
On Wings of Blood (Sep-2019)
The Red Feast (Nov-2019)
The First Wall (Mar-2020)
Indomitus (Aug-2020)
Armageddon Saint (Oct-2020)

Warhammer: Time of Legends

Malekith (Jan-2009)
Shadow King (Jan-2010)
Caledor (May-2011)

Warhammer: The End Times

3 - The Curse of Khaine (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 71 titles



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    A new collection of short stories chronicles the exploits of the Deathwing, the secretive inner circle of the Emperor's warriors, the Dark Angels, in the stark and brutal universe of Warhammer 40,000. Original....





  • GLANCING OVER my shoulder I see that we're at the steps to the command tower now. You can follow the trail of our retreat, five dead Last Chancers lie among more than two dozen alien bodies and a swathe of shotgun 44es and bolt pistol cartridges litt...



  • An exiting anthology of action-packed short fantasy stories set in the grim world of Warhammer follows the adventures and exploits of those caught up in the eternal struggle between darkness and light. Original....



  • An exiting anthology of action-packed short fantasy stories set in the grim world of Warhammer follows the adventures and exploits of those caught up in the eternal struggle between darkness and light. Original....



  • THE COLONEL COUGHS purposefully. He really hasn’t changed a bit. Still that strong, clean shaven jaw, sharp cheek bones and the piercing glare of his ice-blue eyes. Eyes that can bore into your soul and burn through you sharper than a las-cutter. ...



  • In the dark universe of Warhammer 40,000, superhuman Space Marines, stubborn arbitrators, fearless pilots, secretive inquisitors and the massed ranks of the Imperial Guard stand side-by-side, each fighting their personal wars in the defence of a besi...



  • AT THAT MOMENT, a dagger swept up towards Kurt's exposed armpit and he twisted quickly, catching it on his breastplate, his sword passing harmlessly over the Norseman's head. Horrified, his gaze moved from the clawed fingers gripping the knife, up a ...






  • THE DARK ANGELS Space Marines are amongst the most devout of the God-Emperor's servants. Their loyalty is seemingly beyond question and their faith almost fanatical. But the Chapter harbours a dark and horrific secret that stretches back over ten tho...



  • In the sequel to The Claws of Chaos, Kurt Leitzig is uncomfortable with his new role as a chosen warrior of the gods and embarks on quest for treasure to the lands of Araby, finding instead amysterious city of pyramids and forgotten tombs, in...



  • LIEUTENANT KAGE, CONVICT of the 13th Penal Legion and probably its longest surviving recruit, has once more come to the attention of his ruthless old commanding officer, the Colonel. Joined with a brand new team of Last Chancers, Kage is sent on a ...



  • Once a noble warrior of the Empire, Kurt Leitzig has fallen prey to the evil clutches of Chaos, and his former lover, Ursula, must risk everything to raise an army to stop him from being transformed into a daemon that would destroy the Warhammer worl...




  • Omnibus of all three of the popular Last Chancers novels. Hardened criminal Kage and his team are given one last chance to redeem themselves - they must go on a series of desperate missions behind enemy lines, each more dangerous than the last. Last ...



  • Omnibus of all three of the popular Last Chancers novels. Hardened criminal Kage and his team are given one last chance to redeem themselves - they must go on a series of desperate missions behind enemy lines, each more dangerous than the last. Last ...



  • FAR TO THE west of the Old World lies the fabled land of Ulthuan, island home of the elves. Thousands of years ago, when men were but fur-clad savages, elf civilisation flourished; they were truly masters of the world. But even at the peak of its glo...



  • When his family is betrayed and slain, Alith Anar, ill-fated prince of the Nagarythe, is forced to walk a dark path. With the island of Ulthuan in the grip of a civil war with their evil counterparts, the druchii, Alith Anar follows his destiny to be...



  • Ullsard has conquered the know world. All have fallen before his armies. Now it's time to take the long journey home, back to the revered heart of the great Empire he had helped create for his distant masters. But when he returns to the capital, lif...






  • A Warhammer 40,000 Path of the Eldar novel The ancient eldar are a mysterious race, each devoting their life to a chosen path which will guide their actions and decide their fate. Korlandril abandons peace for the Path of the Warrior. He becomes a S...



  • The Dark Angels battle the might of an ork Waaaagh!, led by the feared warboss Ghazghkull Thraka.

    Faced with an ork invasion of Piscina IV, the 3rd Company of the Dark Angels believes the threat to be minimal. As enemy numbers continue to increase,...



  • The Sword of Khaine resides upon the Blighted Isle, veiled in mystery and guarded by forces both living and dead.  Despite the warnings, Aenarion rides out upon his dragon Indraugnir to seek the prize in order to save his homeland of Ulthuan.  The ...



  • ULTHUAN IS BURNING. Its peoples are scattered, its lands in ruin. Under the iron fist of the Witch King dark elves sack and pillage. His desire is nothing short of total domination and the utter extinction of the high elves. Skies blacken with the wi...



  • After the horrors of the Dropsite Massacre, Corax and his mighty Raven Guard face a desperate struggle to survive in the caves and mountains of Isstvan V. Escape from the roaming Chaos Legions seems impossible.Meanwhile Colonel Valerius of the Imperi...



  • ULLSAARD HAS THE CROWN. But when he is confronted with a truth too shocking to contemplate, he has to choose between power and honor....



  • Multi-Author Series: Warhammer 40,000 The ancient eldar are a mysterious race and each devotes their life to a chosen path that will guide their actions and decide their fate.

    Thirianna abandons her simple existence to embark upon the myste...



  • After his legion is decimated during the Istvaan landing and the initial battles of the Heresy Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard, returns to Terra. Here he attempts to find a way to restore his legion. ...



  • Ullsaard rules the known world. All are subject to his will. Yet even as another king bows before him, there are those who would wrench his empire from beneath him. He must risk losing the lands he has conquered to confront a foe far more powerful...



  • Aradryan has chosen to leave his sheltered life on Craftworld Alaitoc and walk the Path of the Outcast, seeking the myriad pleasures and threats the wider galaxy has to offer. Still unfulfilled as a ranger, he is lured into the life of a star pirate,...






  • Upon steeds of adamantium and steel, the Ravenwing of the Dark Angels bring death to the foes of the Imperium in the first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Gav Thorpe. The Ravenwing stand apart from the rest of the Dark Angels Chapter -...



  • A Deathwatch Space Marine audio drama The name of Artemis is spoken only with reverence among the thousand Chapters of the Space Marines, such is the fervour with which he despatches his xenos foes. Stalwart and inviolate, the veteran Captain is a...



  • As Calth burns, the Battle Titans of the Fire Masters legion take to the streets of the city of Ithraca, ready to massacre the fleeing civilian population in the name of their new, dark masters. But the remaining loyalist engines of the Legio Praesag...



  • More secrets of the Dark Angels are revealed as the Legacy of Caliban trilogy continues.The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels Space Marines continues. Interrogator-Chaplain Asmodai sees treac...



  • The latest book in the popular Time of Legends seriesWar with the elves has ended in bloody stalemate, great quakes have broken the peaks, and the enemies of the dwarfs are rising in vast numbers. Far removed from this grief, however, are the dwarfs ...



  • The End Times are coming. With Naggaroth besieged by the hordes of Chaos, the Witch King Malekith makes the decision to abandon the Land of Chill and make one final attempt to seize the throne of Ulthuan. As the druchii march upon the soil of their a...



  • After the decimation of his Legion on the killing fields of Isstvan V, the primarch Corax sanctioned an accelerated implantation process to create new Raven Guard -- a process subverted in secret by his enemies. But in spite of their horrendous mutat...



  • The gripping conclusion to the Legacy of Caliban series The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels continues: to atone for the sins of their forefathers and capture all of the renegades and her...



  • Book one in the Phoenix Lords series, featuring Asurmen, the first and greatest of the Phoenix Lords. Asurmen is the first and greatest of the Phoenix Lords, a demigod of battle whose legend spans the stars. He shielded his people from destruction...



  • As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair. The High Lords become desperate to prove that victory is possible, no matter the cost. A massive Navy fleet is assembled -- their mission to mak...






  • The imperium has been brought to the edge of extinction by an ork invasion of unprecedented scale and depth. Piecemeal strikes against the invaders prove totally ineffective - for every ork fleet destroyed, five more appear. The only solution is to f...



  • Omnibus edition of the Legacy of Caliban trilogy, featuring the mysterious Dark Angels Space Marines. Descendents of the First Legion, the Dark Angels are peerless warriors with a knightly heritage from their sundered home world of Caliban. Amongs...












  • The Dark Angels Legion go to war, and their primarch's brutal actions threaten to tear apart the fragile alliance of Imperium Secundus. With the Dark Angels spread across a hundred systems, primarch Lion El’Jonson stands as Lord Protector of Ul...



  • Lord-Celestant Arkas Warbeast of the Celestial Vindicators returns to restore order to the lands that he ruled in his mortal life, lands now befouled by the verminous hordes of the skaven Clans Pestilens. The once noble tribes of Ursungorod in G...



  • As the Horus Heresy gathers pace, the Raven Guard primarch Corax and the remnants of his once mighty Legion now wage an entirely different kind of war -- liberating worlds oppressed by the traitor forces. After Isstvan, after Deliverance, the Rav...






  • Supreme Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels is forced into an uneasy alliance with the eldar to keep his Chapter's secret past safely buried. The Dark Angels Chapter sprang from the First Legion of Space Marines to fight and die at the Emperor...



  • The fifth title in The Horus Heresy: Primarchs series, delving into the story of Lorgar, primarch of the Word Bearers Legion and the first of the Emperor's sons to fall to Chaos. Most devoted of all the primarchs, it was Lorgar who first fell to t...



  • The second book in the Phoenix Lords series, focusing on the fast and deadly female warrior, Jain Zar, first exarch of the Howling Banshees. The enigmatic eldar are one of the many intelligent races that battle humankind for control of the stars. ...



  • Space Wolf Runepriest Njal Stormcaller ventures into the Great Rift and the ruins of Prospero to save his long lost battle-brothers. Goaded by the shade of the long dead sorcerer Izaak, High Runepriest Njal Stormcaller gathers together a disparate...



  • When the long-lost craftworld Ziasuthra reappears, Iyanna Arienal and Yvraine of the Ynnari lead an expedition to it in hope of retrieving the last cronesword. Still reeling from the advent of the Great Rift and the ravages of the tyranids, the ae...



  • The elite warriors of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter board an ancient space hulk, seeking to purge its deadly alien infestation and avenge a past wrong. Six centuries ago, Space Marines of the Blood Angels Chapter boarded the space hulk Sin...



  • The Casus Belli, an Imperator Titan that has defended the Imperium for ten millennia, marches to war at the head of an army of Adeptus Mechanicus -- but will treachery end the god-machine's long legacy of glory? Holy warbringer of the Legio Metali...



  • Celestine the Living Saint and Inquisitor Greyfax must join forces to avert a schism within the Imperial Ecclesiarchy that could cast mankind into an era of terrible darkness in this epic, four-part audio drama. During the turbulent Reign of Blood, ...




  • The Dark Angels' eternal hunt for the Fallen embroils them in a dangerous conspiracy to change the past and destroy the future, bringing the entire Imperium under the dominion of Chaos.Master strategists, renowned duelists and one of the mightiest Sp...



  • After their actions on the maiden world of Agarimethea awakened slumbering necrons, the Ynnari and the Wild Riders of Saim-Hann ally once more to try and defeat the threat â€" but what are Yvraine's real motives for assisting?The Wild Riders of Saim ...



  • A collection of stories featuring air combat in the 41st millenium. Stories that make up the collection: Medusan Wings - Matt Westbrook Raptor Down - Gav Thorpe Sturmhex - E J Davies Wraithbound - J C Stearns In Service Eternal - Matt Smith Stormsee...



  • On the Flamescar Plateau, a time of peace and prosperity is threatened by a distant sorcerous power. Can Athol Khul bring the tribes together to keep the peace, or will war claim them all â€" and destroy their future?The coming of the God-King Sigmar...





  • Book 3 in The Horus Heresy: The Siege of Terra. Essential reading for all Horus Heresy fansThe war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetoria...



  • The Indomitus Crusade begins! For nearly ten years, the Indomitus Crusade has waged a war of defiance and reconquest in the war-torn Imperium. Attached to Crusade Fleet Quintus -- dubbed the Cursed Fleet by many -- the Ultramarines of the Ithracaâ...



  • After a 16 year absence the Last Chancers are back! Lieutenant Kage of the 13th Penal Legion is dead, his charred remains lost to the depths of a fiery chasm. But as his battalion â€" the Last Chancers â€" mourns, a new hero rises from the ashes. Th...



  • Delve in to the dark past of the Dark Angels legion with this fantastic novel. Knight of the Angelicasta. Saviour of the Lion. Grand Master of the Order. Lord of the Dark Angels. Protector of Caliban. Chaos Heretic. Destroyer of Caliban. Sorcerer of ...



  • Book 3 of the Black Library Mega-Series, "Dawn of Fire"The Indomitus Crusade has brought the Emperor’s vengeance to thousands of star systems. The fleets and armies under the leadership of Roboute Guilliman fight for the survival of h...



  • Book 16 of "The Horus Heresy: Primarchs". Fantastic character focussed novel featuring the Primarch of the Imperial Fists legion.As the Great Crusade enters its sixth decade, the fleets and armies of the Emperor spear out into the galax...



  • Explore the fall of the World That Was in this great value omnibus from Black Library.Dark forces arise and the Old World stands on the brink of destruction. Is this truly the End Times? As the dread armies of the Everchosen march unabated across th...



  • The galactic core is beset by warp storms of a fury the Leagues of Votann have not seen for ten millennia. With both the Imperium of Man and the powers of the warp encroaching further and further onto the Kin’s territories, war reigns supreme a...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gav Thorpe has published 71 books.

The next book by Gav Thorpe, The High K?hl's Oath, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Gav Thorpe, Suffer Not the Unclean to Live, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Gav Thorpe has 9 series.