John Flanagan

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2005
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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About the Author

John Flanagan's induction into writing was unusual. While working at an agency, he wrote a scathing poem about a top-level executive. Luckily for him, one of the other executives agreed with his thoughts, thought he had talent and trained him in copywriting. After working in advertising for years, he teamed up with a friend and they created Hey Dad!, a television show that aired for eight years.

Flanagan's popular Ranger's Apprentice series was originally twenty short stories that he had written for his son to enjoy reading. Now it has been sold in eighteen countries and has been shortlisted for children's book awards in Australia and other countries. The series also is regularly on the New York Times Best Sellers list. He has also written the popular Brotherband Chronicles. The Hunters, the third book in the series, will be released in October 2012. He lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and their family.

Full Series List in Order

The Brotherband Chronicles

1 - The Outcasts (Oct-2011)
2 - The Invaders (Apr-2012)
3 - The Hunters (Nov-2012)
4 - Slaves of Socorro (Jul-2014)
5 - Scorpion Mountain (Dec-2014)
6 - The Ghostfaces (Jun-2016)
7 - The Caldera (Nov-2017)
8 - Return of the Temujai (Oct-2019)
9 - The Stern Chase (Nov-2022)

The Ranger's Apprentice

1 - The Ruins of Gorlan (Jun-2005)
2 - The Burning Bridge (Jun-2006)
3 - The Icebound Land (Jul-2007)
4 - The Battle for Skandia (Mar-2008)
5 - The Sorcerer of the North (Nov-2008)
6 - The Siege of Macindaw (Aug-2009)
7 - Erak's Ransom (Jan-2010)
8 - The Kings of Clonmel (May-2010)
9 - Halt's Peril (Oct-2010)
10 - The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (Apr-2011)
11 - The Lost Stories (Oct-2011)
11.5 - Death of a Hero (Mar-2012)
12 - The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning (Nov-2013)
13 - The Tournament at Gorlan (Oct-2015)
14 - The Battle of Hackham Heath (Dec-2016)
14 - Duel at Araluen (May-2019)
15 - The Red Fox Clan (Aug-2018)

Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years

1 - The Tournament at Gorlan (Oct-2015)
2 - The Battle of Hackham Heath (Dec-2016)

Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger

1 - The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning (Nov-2013)
2 - The Red Fox Clan (Aug-2018)
3 - Duel at Araluen (May-2019)
4 - The Missing Prince (Nov-2020)
5 - Escape from Falaise (Nov-2021)
6 - Arazan's Wolves (Sep-2023)
7 - The Ambush at Sorato (Oct-2024)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Ruins of Gorlan

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 1

    HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A WARRIOR. The Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways, have always made him nervous. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now fifteen-year-old Will, a...

  • The Burning Bridge

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 2

    For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil Lord Morgarath safely imprisoned by impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. But the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle ... On special mission for the ...

  • The Icebound Land

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 3

    CAPTURED... Kidnapped and taken to a frozen land after the fierce battle with Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as captives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue his young apprentice, and he will do anything to ke...

  • We're All Men Here

    Visit Bahrain, Baghdad and the restored Babylon, walk through the Friday Souk, see the Kuwait Towers up close, sit for a while in the gardens of the Grand Mosque and spend time in a dark and inviting coffee house. Listen to Bloodshot Jim and the stor...

  • The Battle for Skandia

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 4

    ATTACK! Far from home after escaping slavery in Skandia, Will and Evanlyn's plans to return are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive. Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but soon fini;ls himself fatally outnumbered -- until Halt ...

  • The Sorcerer of the North

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 5

    Time has passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, led the Araluens to victory against invaders, and Will is now a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy-- boring, even--until the king is poisoned....

  • The Siege of Macindaw

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 6

    After years as a Ranger's apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North -- poisoning t...

  • Erak's Ransom

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 7

    What does it mean to earn the Silver Oakleaf? So few men have done so. For Will, a mere boy, that symbol of honor has long felt out of reach. Now, in the wake of Araluenas uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian leader ha...

  • The Kings of Clonmel

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 8

    Mankind puts its faith in many things -- gods, kings, money -- anything for protection from the world's many dangers. When a cult springs up in neighboring Clonmel, promising to quell the recent attacks by lawless marauders, people flock from all ove...



  • Halt's Peril

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 9

    Rangers walk the line between life and death every day, but never before has that line appeared so thin or death felt so certain. Hot on the trail of the Outsiders -- a cult that's been making its way from kingdom to kingdom, conning the innocent ou...

  • The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 10

    Months have passed since Horace departed for the eastern nation of Nihon-Ja on a vital mission. Having received no communication from him, his friends fear the worst. Unwilling to wait a second longer, Alyss, Evanlyn, and Will leave their homeland be...

  • Shadows of Substance

    A novel set in London and rural Ireland and spanning more than half a century, and with themes of deception and pretence, this is the story of the McDermotts and the Davidsons, two families linked by the marriage of Rose McDermott, an attractive, spi...

  • The Lost Stories

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 11

    Inspired by questions and letters his loyal readers have sent over the years, John Flanagan offers a gift in response: a collection of "lost" tales that fill in the gaps between Ranger's Apprentice novels. For the first time, readers can learn the tr...

  • The Outcasts

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 1

    They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have ...

  • Death of a Hero

    The Ranger's Apprentice - 11.5

    Ranger Will's past is revealed in this story from the New York Times bestselling Ranger's Apprentice. Halt reveals to Will the story behind his parents' deaths and how he came to live at the Castle Redmont Ward....

  • The Invaders

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 2

    The adventure continues in the Ranger's Apprentice companion trilogy! Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competiti...

  • The Hunters

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 3

    The bestselling epic continues! Hal and his brotherband crew are hot on the trail of the pirate Zavac and they have one thing only on their minds: Stopping the bloodthirsty thief before he can do more damage. Of course, they also know Zavac has th...

  • The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 1
    The Ranger's Apprentice - 12

    The story that brings the Ranger's Apprentice arc full-circle! Will Treaty has come a long way from the small boy with dreams of knighthood. Life had other plans for him, and as an apprentice Ranger under Halt, he grew into a legend -- the finest ...

  • Movable Feasts

    Deceit. Love. Remorse. Passion. Grief. Desire. Anguish. Powerful emotions so deeply intertwined make their way through John Flanagan s collection of short stories, Movable Feasts. Flanagan first captures our attention with French Army Captain Marc Cl...



  • Shay Elliott and Collected Short Stories

    In his collection of short stories, the author charts the life of Shay Elliott, Ireland's first professional cyclist, as he struggles to compete against riders in a peloton saturated with performance enhancing drugs. After he returned to Ireland he d...

  • Slaves of Socorro

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 4

    Hal and his fellow Herons have returned home to Skandia after defeating the pirate captain Zavac and reclaiming Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal. With their honor restored, the Herons turn to a new mission: tracking down an old rival turne...

  • Scorpion Mountain

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 5

    Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter’s life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her lif...

  • The Tournament at Gorlan

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years - 1
    The Ranger's Apprentice - 13

    From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice -- the first in a new prequel series featuring one of our favorite Rangers, Halt!   When Halt and Crowley discover that the ambitious Morgarath has been infiltrating the ...

  • Michael Devlin and the Cheyenne

    Penniless Irish immigrant Michael Devlin arrives in New York City, USA, in 1864, the third year of the American Civil War. With a group of friends from his home in County Galway, he enlists in a cavalry regiment. After basic training, they are thrown...

  • The Ghostfaces

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 6

    From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice, comes a brand-new chapter in the adventures of young Skandians who form a different kind of family--a brotherband. When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm...

  • The Battle of Hackham Heath

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years - 2
    The Ranger's Apprentice - 14

    John Flanagan, author of the bestselling Ranger's Apprentice fantasy adventure epic, delivers a second prequel to Ruins of Gorlan, the novel that started it all, with Halt and Crowley preparing for war against a near-unstoppable enemy When the fo...

  • The Caldera

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 7

    The Herons take to the high seas to fend off pirates and rescue the heir to an empire in the newest adventure from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice! Includes BONUS content--a brand-new Ranger's Apprentice shor...

  • The Longing of Elizabeth Martin and other stories

    A collection of 11 short stories with settings in Ireland, the English countryside, the Middle East, New York City, Bangkok and in the 'fantastic' country of Ambrosia. Adult fiction but not salacious or gratuitously erotic portraying the lives and lo...

  • Cheyenne Winter

    Penniless Irish immigrant Michael Devlin arrives in New York, USA, in year 1864, the third year of the American Civil War. With a group of friends from his home in County Galway, he enlists in a cavalry regiment. After basic training, they are thrown...



  • The Red Fox Clan

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 2
    The Ranger's Apprentice - 15

    #1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan returns to the world of Ranger's Apprentice, continuing the story arc starring fan favorites, Will and Maddie (The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning). Picking up where The Royal Ranger: A New Beginnin...

  • Duel at Araluen

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 3
    The Ranger's Apprentice - 14

    International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in this new installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty's fearless young apprentice. King Duncan and Princess Cassandra are trap...

  • Return of the Temujai

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 8

    The Herons take to the high seas in the action-packed eighth installment of the Brotherband Chronicles, Brotherband: Return of the Temujai from John Flanagan, author of the internationally bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series! The Herons are...

  • The Missing Prince

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 4

    International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger''s Apprentice in the fourth installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty''s fearless young apprentice.

    Bestselling author of the Ranger''s Apprent...

  • The Seven Women Of The Sickle

    A special relationship between English women and their Thai companions in an idyllic setting. The Seven Women of The Sickle is based on a story told to John Flanagan by Tomcat whom John met by chance one morning in Singapore. Tomcat shared his experi...

  • The Beast from Another Time

  • Escape from Falaise

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 5

    International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in the fifth installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty's fearless young apprentice.After their plan to rescue the prince of Gallica has g...

  • The Stern Chase

    The Brotherband Chronicles - 9

    The exciting next tale in the Brotherband Chronicles -- following the Brotherband and their ship, the Heron, in a battle against an Iberian pirate raiding ship -- from John Flanagan, author of the internationally bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice ser...

  • Arazan's Wolves

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 6

    International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in the sixth installment of the Royal Ranger series in which Maddie and Will must travel to Celtica to investigate a series of dire wolf attacks and a dangerous so...

  • The Ambush at Sorato

    Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger - 7

    International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in the seventh installment of the Royal Ranger series in which Will and Maddie must travel through Toscana and encounter the dangerous Temujai forces.Will and Madd...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Flanagan has published 39 books.

John Flanagan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Ambush at Sorato, was published in October 2024.

The first book by John Flanagan, The Ruins of Gorlan, was published in June 2005.

Yes. John Flanagan has 4 series.
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