James Lovegrove

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  • Bibliography:
    68 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1995
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Dev Harmer Mission

1 - World of Fire (Sep-2014)
2 - World of Water (Apr-2016)

Firefly

1 - Firefly - Big Damn Hero (Nov-2018)
2 - Firefly - The Magnificent Nine (Mar-2019)
3 - Firefly - The Ghost Machine (Apr-2020)
4 - Firefly - Generations (Oct-2020)
5 - Firefly - Life Signs (Jan-2021)

Five Lords of Pain

1 - The Lord of the Mountain (Sep-2013)
2 - The Lord of the Void (Sep-2013)
3 - The Lord of Tears (Sep-2013)
4 - The Lord of the Typhoon (Sep-2013)
5 - The Lord of Fire (Sep-2013)

The Guardians

1 - The Krilov Continuum (Mar-2019)
2 - Berserker (Aug-2019)

Pantheon

1 - Age of Ra (Aug-2009)
2 - Age of Zeus (Apr-2010)
3 - Age of Odin (Jan-2011)
4 - Age of Anansi (Mar-2012)
5 - Age of Aztec (Apr-2012)
6 - Age of Satan (Feb-2013)
7 - Age of Voodoo (Mar-2013)
8 - Age of Gaia (Aug-2013)
9 - Age of Shiva (Mar-2014)
10 - Age of Legends (Nov-2019)

Redlaw

1 - Redlaw (Sep-2011)
2 - Red Eye (Oct-2012)

Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks

1 - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (Nov-2016)
2 - Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (Nov-2017)
3 - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils (Nov-2018)

Sherlock Holmes

1 - The Labyrinth of Death (Jun-2017)
2 - The Devil's Dust (Jul-2018)
3 - The Christmas Demon (Oct-2019)
4 - The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes (Jan-2020)
5 - The Beast of the Stapletons (Nov-2020)
6 - The Three Winter Terrors (Nov-2021)

Book List in Order: 68 titles

  • The Hope

    CLASSIC SF -- NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME! The Hope is a vast ocean liner, five miles long and two miles wide and one mile high, which lurches through the waves on a voyage to nowhere, carrying a million passengers in her rusting bel...

  • Computopia

  • The Foreigners

    A utopia, brought to us by the Foreigners, inscrutable aliens who appeared amongst us from nowhere one day. A utopia that will end when the Foreigners leave, which they are bound to if whoever is killing them cannot be stopped. A utopia that is alrea...

  • Untied Kingdom

    After a series of disastrous political decisions the United Kingdom has finally fallen foul of the International Community. Ostracized and bombed at random, the country has fallen apart. With the infrastructure in ruins, tiny communities struggle on ...

  • The House of Lazarus

    Joey's mum didn't want to die, so he rented her a place at the House of Lazarus, where you can keep people alive for ever. But Joey struggles to afford it and a strange dream makes him wonder if he's done the right thing. This book is suitable for re...

  • Wings

    Az dreams of being like everyone else. In the world of the Airborn, that means growing wings. A moving futuristic story. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers....

  • Worldstorm

    'When the Worldstorm first stirred in the distant reaches of the earth, the people of the earth were torn asunder and thrown into disarray. For a time, all was panic and terror. But out of this panic and terror and division a new order coalesced, and...

  • Provender Gleed

    The Families. Insanely rich and richly insane. With world-spanning business interests, glamour and power, they are monarchs, Mafia and movie stars rolled into one. Since the Borgias and Medicis united in the 17th century the Families have transfixed,...

  • Kuczynski Verifications



  • The Kamikaze Code

    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...

  • Age of Ra

    Pantheon - 1

    The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the earth, dividing it into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent of th...

  • Age of Zeus

    Pantheon - 2

    The Olympians appeared a decade ago, living incarnations of the Ancient Greek gods on a mission to bring permanent order and stability to the world. Resistance has proved futile, and now humankind is under the jackboot of divine oppression. Then form...

  • Age of Odin

    Pantheon - 3

    Gideon Coxall was a good soldier but bad at everything else, until a roadside explosive device leaves him with one deaf ear and a British Army half-pension. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project, it's like a dream come true. They're recruiting ...

  • Imagined Slights

    An collection of previously unseen stories, favourites from 'Interzone' magazine and contributions to numerous science fiction and fantasy anthologies 'Imagined Slights' showcases one of the most versatile and elegant writers on the genre scene today...

  • Redlaw

    Redlaw - 1

    They live among us, abhorred, marginalised, despised. They are vampires, known politely as Sunless. The job of policing their community falls to the men and women of the Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive SHADE. Captain John Redlaw is London s ...

  • Days

    Welcome to the Days gigastore! Seven storeys high, two-and-a-half kilometres to a side. Within its walls, you can buy anything and everything! But there is a price to be paid... A savagely funny satire on a society obsessed with consumption, Days pai...

  • Warsuit 1.0

    Od Fitch hates his life. He hates living in the middle of nowhere, he hates the fact that his mum is dead and his dad is too wrapped up in his research to notice him, and he hates his school, where the lessons are too easy and dull to bother with.

  • Age of Anansi

    Pantheon - 4

    An original stand-alone novella in James Lovegrove's best selling Pantheon series. Dion Yeboah leads an orderly, disciplined life... until the day the spider appears. What looks like an ordinary arachnid turns out to be Anansi, the trickster god of A...

  • Age of Aztec

    Pantheon - 5

    The date is 4 Jaguar 1 Monkey 1 House " November 25th 2012 by the old reckoning " and the Aztec Empire rules the world. The Aztecs’ reign is one of cruel and ruthless oppression, encompassing regular human sacrifice. In the jungle-infested city ...



  • The Black Phone

    Seb and Frankie are unlikely friends who run an amateur detective agency. When the rich and gorgeous new girl at school becomes the victim of vicious cyber-bullying, she comes to them for help. Can Seb and Frankie find out who's responsible? An e...

  • Kill Swap

  • Red Eye

    Redlaw - 2

    The eastern seaboard of the USA is experiencing the worst winter weather in living memory, and John Redlaw is in the cold white thick of it. He’s come to America to investigate a series of vicious attacks on vampire immigrants -- targeted kills tha...

  • Age of Satan

    Pantheon - 6

    1968. Guy Lucas, son a murdered British diplomat, is sent to an old-fashioned boarding school, where he is bullied and abused. A fellow student persuades him to perform a black mass and plead with Satan to intervene, with horrific consequences. For t...

  • Age of Voodoo

    Pantheon - 7

    Lex Dove thought he was done with the killing game. Then a call comes. One last mission: to lead a black ops team into a disused Cold War bunker on a remote island. One hundred feet below ground they face the fruits of an experiment in science and vo...

  • Age of Gaia

    Pantheon - 8

    An original stand-alone novella in James Lovegrove's best selling Patheon series.  Billionaire Barnaby Pollard, energy magnate, has the world at his feet. The planet's fossil fuel resources are his to exploit, as are the size-zero girlfriends he...

  • Age of Godpunk: Collecting Age of Anansi, Age of Satan and Age of Gaia

    James Lovegrove presents three novellas with three different 'gods' and their appreance in the worlds of man. Age of Anansi, Age of Satan, and a third novella Age of Gaia appearing both in print and ebook for the first time with the release of this e...

  • The Lord of Fire

    Five Lords of Pain - 5

    Tom’s defeated four powerful demons. Now he must face the ultimate test. The Lord of Fire " the most powerful demon of them all. If Tom loses, the world will burn… The final book in the thrilling series bound to captivate reluctant boy readers....

  • The Lord of Tears

    Five Lords of Pain - 3

    In his third duel Tom faces the Lord of Tears, who’s as fast as lightning and twice as deadly. Will Tom survive the fight to continue in the Contest? The third book in a thrilling action-packed series bound to captivate reluctant boy readers....

  • The Lord of the Mountain

    Five Lords of Pain - 1

    Tom Yamada seems like any 15-year-old but he's actually a supreme martial artist, training to face a terrifying challenge when he turns 30. It's his destiny to fight the5 Lords of Pain - demons who have been trying to break into our world for centuri...



  • The Lord of the Typhoon

    Five Lords of Pain - 4

    Three down: Two to go! Tom must face The Lord of the Typhoon " the winged monster that killed his father. Can Tom get his revenge? The nail-biting fourth book in a thrilling new series bound to captivate reluctant boy readers....

  • The Lord of the Void

    Five Lords of Pain - 2

    Tom’s survived his duel with the Lord of the Mountain. Now he must face the Lord of the Void " the king of darkness, with a heart as black as his armor. Will Tom manage to defeat this Lord? The second action-packed installment in a thrilling five...

  • Sherlock Holmes - The Stuff of Nightmares

    It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence.  Sherlock Ho...

  • Age of Shiva

    Pantheon - 9

    A team of godlike super-powered beings based on the ten avatars of Vishnu from Hindu mythology is assembled, but are they in fact a harbinger of apocalypse? Zachary Bramwell, better known as the comics artist Zak Zap, is pushing forty and wonderin...

  • Sherlock Holmes - Gods of War

    1913.  The clouds of war are gathering.  The world’s great empires vie for supremacy.  Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s ret...

  • World of Fire

    A Dev Harmer Mission - 1

    A brand new SF series from the author of the Pantheon series, which included the break-out hits Age and Ra, Age of Zeus and Age of Odin. Dev Harmer wakes in a new body with every mission, and he has woken this time on Alighieri, a planet perpetually ...

  • BetterLife

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Days, Provender Gleed and the Pantheon series comes a darkly comic near-future satire about fate, fame, and reality TV. Luke Fallon and his twin brother Johnny are opposite sides of the same coin, the one...

  • Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking Engine

    Man vs Machineit is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street, when he and Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford.A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous comp...

  • Lifelines and Deadlines

    James Lovegrove is the New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty novels and novellas. He also writes nonfiction, his reviews and articles appearing in numerous venues in print and online, including a regular review column for the Financia...

  • World of Water

    A Dev Harmer Mission - 2

    In this stellar sequel to World of Fire, Dev Harmer has landed in a new body on a new planet... Dev Harmer, reluctant agent of Interstellar Security Solutions, has travelled to ocean world Robinson D, nicknamed Triton. Here, settlements belongi...



  • The James Lovegrove Collection Vol. 2

    Solaris proudly presents two of James Lovegroves classic fictions in their first North American edition. Provender Gleed The Families. Insanely rich and richly insane. With world-spanning business interests, glamour and power, they are monarchs,...

  • Age of Heroes

    The demigods of Ancient Greek myth are alive and well and ready for war. Except the demigods of Ancient Greek myth are alive and, well… dying. Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Orpheus, Achilles, Hippolyta, Aeneas, King Minos, Helen of Troy -- for ...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows

    Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks - 1

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the denizens of Cthulhu in this “pitch-perfect” Lovecraft-Conan Doyle mashup from a New York Times bestselling author (Guardian). It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanist...

  • The Labyrinth of Death

    Sherlock Holmes - 1

    It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes’s new client is a High Court judge, whose free-spirited daughter has disappeared without a trace.   Holmes and Watson discover that the missing woman -- Hannah Woolfson -- was herself on the trail of a missing p...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities

    Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks - 2

    It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous B...

  • The Devil's Dust

    Sherlock Holmes - 2

    It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the ...

  • Dead Brigade

  • Firefly - Big Damn Hero

    Firefly - 1

    The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet t...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils

    Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks - 3

    The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft collide.It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have ba...

  • Ant God

    Some things are better left unseen... A N T G O D You should try them yourself, Dan. It'll blow your mind. Wait till dark though. They work better at night. Big Ideas. Big and weird Ideas. That's what Dan's best friend Jason does best. Like the o...



  • Firefly - The Magnificent Nine

    Firefly - 2

    The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flu...

  • The Krilov Continuum

    The Guardians - 1

    THE GUARDIANS TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope. The Guardians: a world-wide secret cabal, ghosts in the global machine. Carefully selected men and women, all outsiders, yet all dedicated to the cause o...

  • Berserker

    The Guardians - 2

    THE GUARDIANS TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope. The Guardians, a world-wide secret cabal. Outsiders, walking in the shadows, yet dedicated to the cause of stability. Dedicated to preserving science fr...

  • The Christmas Demon

    Sherlock Holmes - 3

    The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly - Big Damn Hero.It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve A...

  • Age of Legends

    Pantheon - 10

    THE DEFENDERS OF THE LAND! As Britain struggles under a burgeoning fascist government, Prime Minister Derek Drake plays the man of the people, while simultaneously purging the country of “undesirables.” When bike courier and subversive graffiti a...

  • Cold Keep

    One Warrior. A million shadows. Who’s hunting who?The sun sets on the icy wastelands of Cold Keep, and Yana faces the greatest danger of her life. The Shadow Trolls are hunting. And Yana must fight them alone. She will come back a hero -- if she co...

  • The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes - 4

    Twelve sensational Sherlock Holmes short stories from a bestselling master of the genre.Maverick detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr John Watson return in twelve thrilling short stories. The iconic duo find themselves swiftly dra...

  • Firefly - The Ghost Machine

    Firefly - 3

    The fourth original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.Mal and the crew take receipt of a sealed crate which they are being paid to transport to Badger, no questions asked. Yet once their...

  • Firefly - Generations

    Firefly - 4

    The fourth original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. Mal wins an old map in a card game. Ancient and written in impenetrable symbols, the former owner insists it's worthless. Ye...

  • The Beast of the Stapletons

    Sherlock Holmes - 5

    New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove's continues the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor...1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has b...

  • Firefly - Life Signs

    Firefly - 5

    Serenity races against time to save Inara's life in an original Firefly tie-in novel that reads like a lost episode from the show A deadly diseaseMonths after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: ...

  • The Three Winter Terrors

    Sherlock Holmes - 6

    A beautifully presented sinister seasonal mystery from the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon. 1889. The First Terror. At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the...

  • The Stuff of Nightmares

    It’s the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, antimonarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes ...

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors

    From the author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon another beautifully presented seasonal mystery.1889. The First Terror. At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a wi...

  • Gods of War

    1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement co...

  • Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

    A brand-new thrilling tale of madness, murder and reanimated corpses in the Cthulhu Casebooks series, where Sherlock and Watson fight the fiendish plots of the terrifying and alien Mi-Go, from the New York Times bestselling author.It’s 1929 and an ...

  • Doctor Strange

    The mind-bending original adventures of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, are brought to life for a new era by New York Times-bestselling author James Lovegrove.A self-centred healer, Stephen Strange is arrogant, but it's almost justified. After ...

  • Conan

    A new chapter of the Titan comics & Heroic Signatures massive narrative event: The Battle of the Black Stone. A thrilling story about Conan the Barbarian facing incomprehensible Lovecraftian horrors written by New York Times Bestselling author Ja...

  • Dimension War

    The mind-bending original adventures of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, are brought to life for a new era by New York Times-bestselling author James Lovegrove.A self-centred healer, Stephen Strange is arrogant, but it's almost justified. After ...

Award-Winning Books by James Lovegrove

Firefly - The Ghost Machine
2020 Dragon Award -- Media Tie-In Novel


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James Lovegrove has published 68 books.

The next book by James Lovegrove, Dimension War, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by James Lovegrove, The Hope, was published in November 1995.

Yes. James Lovegrove has 8 series.
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