Gillian Cross

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Dark Ground Trilogy

1 - The Dark Ground (Oct-2004)
2 - The Black Room (Apr-2006)
3 - The Nightmare Game (Nov-2006)

Demon Headmaster

1 - The Demon Headmaster (Mar-1983)
2 - The Prime Minister's Brain ()
3 - Revenge of the Demon Headmaster (Aug-2009)
4 - The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Sep-1996)
5 - The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Nov-1997)
6 - Facing the Demon Headmaster (Mar-2001)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • The Demon Headmaster

    Demon Headmaster - 1

    When Dinah is fostered by the Hunters she thinks her biggest problem will be fitting in with her foster-brothers, Lloyd and Harvey. However, once she starts at her new school it''s clear that there''s more to worry about. All the children, apart from...

  • Born of the Sun

  • Chartbreaker

    To escape a depressed mother and her mother's hostile boyfriend, angry young Janis joins the rock group Kelp and develops her own strength of character while fighting to survive in the contemporary music world....

  • The Dark Behind the Curtain

  • Roscoe's Leap

    A plan to restore a guillotine and other strange toys once belonging to an eccentric millionaire fills his twelve-year-old great-great-grandson with nameless dread and concern for his family's safety....

  • On the Edge

  • Twin and Super Twin

    Shortly after David, his twin brother Ben, and their friend Mitch wreck the Wellington Street gang's bonfire, David's arm suddenly changes into a roman candle, then into sausages, and then into a snake...

  • The Great American Elephant Chase

    Tad and Cissie take care of Khush the elephant in the traveling show of Cissie's father, but when her father is killed in an accident, the two kidnap the elephant and flee the Hannibal Jackson, who claims that Khush belongs to him....

  • Wolf

    Cassy much prefers her ordinary, well-run life, safe at home with her no-nonsense grandmother. But every so often--never with any warning--she is sent to stay with her mother, Goldie, a dreamy beauty who drifts from one seedy London neighborhood to t...



  • New World

  • Pictures in the Dark

    Charlie is always trying to find unusual things to capture on camera and takes a chance photograph in the dark of something swimming in the river. He thinks he knows what it was, but no one believes him. When the photo's displayed at school, new boy ...

  • The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again

    Demon Headmaster - 4

    Dinah, Lloyd and Harvey hoped they'd seen the last of the Demon Headmaster when they moved to a new village. However, almost immediately, they can tell something's not right about the place. There's a loud buzzing noise coming from the biogenetic res...

  • The Demon Headmaster Takes Over

    Demon Headmaster - 5

    It''s amazing! The Hyperbrain is a super intelligent computer that works by accessing the human brain. In the wrong hands, though, it could spell disaster. The new Controller at the Artificial Intelligence Unit seems horribly familiar but Dinah and h...

  • Rent-A-Genius

    Sophy's family has had enough of her helpful hints and her mother tells her to find someone who really needs help. So Sophy sets up as a rent-a-genius. Customers flock in, desperate for advice about mud and grandmothers, friends and tomatoes - but so...

  • Tightrope

    Ashley's life is different from other teenagers. She has to look after her disabled mother full-time and take care of the house. She copes by being relentlessly cheerful and confident. But Ashley has a secret alter-ego: the dare-devil graffiti artist...

  • Facing the Demon Headmaster

    Demon Headmaster - 6

    The new club Purple is the place to go-if you can get in-and Ellie persuades Dinah and her friends to come along too. The man everyone wants to see is DJ Pardoman whose face keeps changing from Elvis to Madonna to Brad Pitt. His electronic mask is me...

  • Down with the Dirty Danes!

    An hilarious story, told in letter form, about King Alfred -- he who burnt the cakes, and his battles with the Vikings. Berwin, son of Egfrith, writes to Wulfric, son of Elred using his miraculous new talent of reading and writing. Berry’s spell...

  • Phoning a Dead Man

    When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancTe Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is...

  • Monster from Underground

    Buddy hates to write and is unhappy about having to keep a nature diary for a week until he decides to survey the night sky and discovers something weird in his neighbor's backyard that makes for a truly interesting diary....



  • The Tree House

    William and his brother are desperate to have a tree house in the grand old tree. Their father goes away, but is determined that the tree house should be built. So every month he sends a parcel containing things they'll need for the tree house. But w...

  • The Dark Ground

    The Dark Ground Trilogy - 1

  • The Black Room

    The Dark Ground Trilogy - 2

    Robert has come back from a horrible ordeal in a strange parallel world. Now he can’t stop thinking about the people he left behind to face a winter that most won’t survive. When Robert sees a chance to save his friend Lorn, he is desperate to su...

  • The Nightmare Game

    The Dark Ground Trilogy - 3

    The thrilling conclusion of a groundbreaking trilogy has arrived. Robert journeyed through a strange parallel world with the help of a tiny band of fellow survivors. Now home, Robert, with his best friend, Tom, and sister, Emma, are desperate to save...

  • Brother Aelred's Feet

    Brother Aelred loved singing and looking after the pigs. But it was his secret weapon that stopped the Vikings getting the treasure! Part of 'Collins Big Cat' series for ages 4-7, this title includes practical teaching notes....

  • Revenge of the Demon Headmaster

    Demon Headmaster - 3

    Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling, dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts and badges, and there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers and pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the troub...

  • Where I Belong

    Master storyteller Gillian Cross's exciting new novel, set in London and Somalia, grapples with issues of identity, trust, and family. In the hot desert of Somalia, Mahmoud is kidnapped and held for a ten thousand-dollar ransom. His older sister, Kha...

  • The Goose Girl

    When a princess is sent away to begin a new life, little does she know what lies in store . . . Discover how this heroine, cruelly tricked by her evil maid, struggles to prove her innocence to the handsome prince she is destined to marry. This sto...

  • The Odyssey

    A bold re-envisioning of The Odyssey, told with simplicity and style -- perfect for fans of graphic retellings and mythology enthusiasts alike. Odysseus faces storm and shipwreck, a terrifying man-eating Cyclops, the alluring but deadly Sirens, ...

  • After Tomorrow

    "What if you woke up tomorrow and everything had changed?Money is worthless.Your friends are gone.Armed robbers roam the streets.No one is safe.For Matt and his little brother, Taco, that nightmare is a reality. Their only hope of survival is to esca...



  • The Mystery of the Man with the Black Beard

  • The Roman Beanfeast

    Like every other school in the country, Davy's class are working on the Romans. Everyone is to do a piece of work based on the visit they made to a Roman fort and the best will get a prize at the Roman Feast planned by the school. Davy's problem i...

  • Mozart's Banana

  • The Great Elephant Chase

    A giant Indian elephant.A wild journey across America.An enemy who will never stop.Tad and Cissie are on the run with Khush the elephant. Clammy fingered, steely-eyed Hannibal Jackson will do anything to capture the animal.Maybe even kill . . .Stayin...

  • Shadow Cat

  • The Iliad

    A strikingly illustrated retelling of Homer’s classic from the team who brought us The Odyssey -- Carnegie Medalist Gillian Cross and illustrator Neil Packer. After nine years of war between the Greeks and Trojans, tensions are heating up among ...

  • Amber's Song

  • Rescuing Gloria

    I can't take Gloria. But no one else will have her. Who wants a goat? Leo can't let Gloria die. But where do you keep a goat when you live in a first-floor flat? And what about the milking? He struggles to solve the problems, and Rachel and Harinder ...

  • Swimathon!

    BENNETT SCHOOL IS BO-O-O-ORING! BOO-HOO WE'RE BENNETT BABIES! POOH! BENNETT PONGS! There are rude slogans daubed all over the school minibus. And that's not all. The whole thing has been smashed up and it needs mending. Fast. But there's no money. As...

  • Film Crew



  • Total Control

    Everyone is good at something. But at Lizzie's school this has been taken to extremes. Her classmate Ethan, who previously had no interest in sport, is now incredible at football; her brother's suddenly an expert in robotics; and Lizzie has become re...

  • The Demon Headmaster and the Prime Minister's Brain

    There's a new computer game at school and the chance to enter the Junior Computer Brain of the Year competition is sending ripples of excitement through the pupils. Dinah is a whizz at the game and soon finds herself in the competition final. But it ...

  • The Cupcake Wedding

    When holly''s sister announces her engagement, wedding planning begins in earnest. But a tight budget means missing out on some wedding essentials - like the cake! Holly decides to put her baking skills to the test and surprise the happy couple with ...

  • The Ghost Tower

    The night Dot and Ryan take a sneaky Halloween visit to a condemned tower, they discover more than they bargained for when they catch a glimpse of an endangered species of bat. It''s clear that the bat colony and the tower need to be saved, but Dot a...

  • Mortal Danger

  • Five Ways to Make a Friend

    A touching tale of friendship, understanding and finding the confidence to be yourself, from one of the UK''s most beloved authors.It''s Ella''s first day at her new school and that can only mean one thing: making new friends. But the challenge is ev...

  • Ollie Spark and the Accidental Adventure

  • Ollie Spark and the Exploding Popcorn Mystery

  • The Prime Minister's Brain

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    Demon Headmaster - 2

    When Dinah Hunter plays the latest computer game, The Octopus Dare, she forgets who she is and it is up to Lloyd, Harvey and the rest of S.P.L.A.T. to save her, the Prime Minister's brain, and the world from the Demon Headmaster's revenge....

Award-Winning Books by Gillian Cross

Wolf
1990 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gillian Cross has published 48 books.

Gillian Cross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ollie Spark and the Exploding Popcorn Mystery, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Gillian Cross, The Demon Headmaster, was published in March 1983.

Yes. Gillian Cross has 2 series.
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