Juliet E. McKenna

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1999
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Aldabreshin Compass

1 - Southern Fire (Jul-2005)
2 - Northern Storm ()
3 - Western Shore ()
4 - Eastern Tide (Apr-2008)

The Hardrumal Crisis

1 - Dangerous Waters (Aug-2011)
2 - Darkening Skies (Mar-2012)
3 - Defiant Peaks (Dec-2012)

The Lescari Trilogy

1 - Irons in the Fire (Jan-2009)
2 - Blood in the Water (Feb-2010)
3 - Banners in the Wind (May-2010)

The Tales of Einarinn

1 - The Thief's Gamble (Aug-1999)
2 - The Swordsman's Oath (Sep-2000)
3 - The Gambler's Fortune (Jul-2001)
4 - The Warrior's Bond (Dec-2002)
5 - Assassin's Edge (Nov-2003)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Thief's Gamble

    The Tales of Einarinn - 1

    The Secrets of the Shadow-Men Magic? It's for the rich, the powerful ...the Archmage and his elite wizards andcloud-masters. Livak is not among them. She haunts the back taverns of the realm, careful to appear neither rich nor poor, neither tal...

  • The Swordsman's Oath

    The Tales of Einarinn - 2

    SWORDMASTER... Ryshad was a warrior, a sworn man pledged to defend the Empire and his lord with his sword and his life. Livak was a thief, a woman as dangerous and cunning as she was beautiful. Brought together by fate--and the wily wizard Shiv--the...

  • The Gambler's Fortune

    The Tales of Einarinn - 3

    ONCE A THIEF... The renowned thief Livak employed her great courage and cunning to escape the evil, mindbending sorcery of the Elietimm--with the help of Ryshad, the noble swordsman who stole the beautiful bandit's heart. Now a fortune awaits her ...

  • The Warrior's Bond

    The Tales of Einarinn - 4

    Einarinn's greatest warrior, the swordsman Ryshad, has sworn to protect his lord, Messire D'Olbriot, even if it means watching his love, the beautiful thief Livak, embark on a dangerous quest to find the lost aetheric magic on her own. But shadow and...

  • Assassin's Edge

    The Tales of Einarinn - 5

    THE UNKNOWN TERROR After a long winter spent in the Kellarin colony, the crafty and beautiful Livak is anxious to move on. Now an opportunity is on the horizon. The reclamation of a lost southern settlement is in the offing, but those involved, Liv...

  • Southern Fire

    The Aldabreshin Compass - 1

    Their coming had not been written in the stars, and no augury had foretold the terror they would bring. The first sign was the golden lights of the beacons, a clear message from every southern isle that a calamity had befallen them. Daish Kheda, war...

  • Eastern Tide

    The Aldabreshin Compass - 4

    The Archipelago is still plagued by dragons and its peoples live in terror of their coming. Kheda, Risala, and Velindre chase rumors of a water dragon, as they alone have gathered secrets of how to repel these fearsome beasts. Yet this has won them n...

  • Irons in the Fire

    The Lescari Trilogy - 1

    The country of Lescar was born out of civil war. Carved out of the collapse of the Old Tormalin Empire, the land has long been laid waste by its rival dukes, while bordering nations look on with indifference or exploit its misery. But a mismatched ba...

  • Blood in the Water

    The Lescari Trilogy - 2

    With their forces gathered, the revolutionary leaders within Lescar begin their bid to win the minds and hearts of the people, as well as the lands of the rival dukedoms. ...



  • Banners in the Wind

    The Lescari Trilogy - 3

    A few stones falling in the right place can set a landslide in motion. That’s what Lescari exiles told themselves in Vanam as they plotted to overthrow the warring dukes. But who can predict the chaos that follows such a cataclysm? Some will surviv...

  • Dangerous Waters

    The Hardrumal Crisis - 1

    The Archmage rules the island of wizards. From here he enforces the Edicts of the Council of Wizardry. Foremost is the ban on magecraft in warfare. But there is a rumour of rogue wizardry in Lescar's recent civil war. There's the rise of Artifice, it...

  • Darkening Skies

    The Hardrumal Crisis - 2

    Wizards and Warlords vie for power as Captain Corrain and the charismatic Lady Zurenne are bound together by perilous secrets. Will the collision of magic and brute strength allow them to survive and the world escape war? Captain Corrain is hailed...

  • Tales of Einarinn

    The whole of Juliet E. McKenna's legendary Tales of Einarinn series in one handy volume. Comprising: The Thief's Gamble The Swordsman's Oath The Gambler's Fortune The Warrior's Bond The Assassin's Edge and bonus story story collection, A Few Further ...

  • A Few Further Tales of Einarinn

    A collection of five stories featuring characters from Juliet E McKenna’s Tales of Einarinn, beginning with the full story of an earlier adventure involving Livak, Halice, Sorgrad and Gren, followed by encounters and incidents set between the books...

  • Turns and Chances

    Common cause unites a duke’s beautiful mistress, a stable lad, a goodwife, a priest, the bereft mother of an infant son and guild masters weary of seeing apprentices drafted into brutish militias. Conflicting loyalties set a duke’s dutiful bastar...

  • Defiant Peaks

    The Hardrumal Crisis - 3

    Archmage Planir and the wizards of Hadrumal have demonstrated their devastating powers and the corsair threat is no more. The mainland rulers’ relief is overshadowed with fear of one day facing such a threat to their own dominion. Will Tormalin’s...

  • Challoner, Murray & Balfour: Monster Hunters at Law

    In Victorian times a gentleman was expected to be able to turn his hand to whatever noble task was presented to him. Should it be required, this extended to the hunting of supernatural creatures.In these four stories, Juliet E. McKenna revisits the f...

  • Fight Like a Girl

    What do you get when some of the best women writers of genre fiction come together to tell tales of female strength? A powerful collection of science fiction and fantasy ranging from space operas and near-future factional conflict to medieval warfare...

  • Shadow Histories of the River Kingdom

    Imaginary friends should be a comfort when other consolations fail. But what if these longed-for companions think different? What if they’re none too pleased to be summoned? What if untamed magic can spawn creatures from daydreams or nightmares? Co...



  • Shadow Histories of the River Kindgom

    Imaginary friends should be a comfort when other consolations fail. But what if these longed-for companions think differently? What if they're none too pleased with those who have summoned them? What about other daydreams and nightmares? Is it so ...

  • The Green Man's Heir

    A hundred years ago, a man with a secret could travel a few hundred miles and give himself a new name and life story. No one would be any the wiser, as long as he didn't give anyone a reason to start asking questions. These days, that's not so eas...

  • Alternate Peace

    Alternate histories. Alternate realities.It's said that every choice creates multiple timelines, each one exploring what could have happened if a different decision had been made. Most of these alternate histories stem from different outcomes to a pi...

  • The Green Man's Foe

    When you do a good job for someone, there's a strong chance they'll offer you more work or recommend you elsewhere. So Daniel Mackmain isn't particularly surprised when his boss's architect brother asks for his help on a historic house renovation ...

  • The Green Man's Silence

    Daniel Mackmain has always been a loner. As a dryad's son, he can see the supernatural alongside everyday reality, and that's not something he can easily share. Perhaps visiting East Anglia to stay with Finele Wicken and her family will be different....

  • The Green Man's Challenge

    A while back, Daniel Mackmain's life took an unexpected turn. Now the Green Man expects him to resolve clashes between those dwelling unseen in wild places and the ordinary people who have no idea what's out there. Dan's father is human and his mothe...

  • The Golden Rule

    It is the summer of 1887 and everyone is looking forward to Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Young police constable David Price's greatest concern is how much drunken disorder he and his colleagues will have to deal with. This changes when he is part...

  • The Green Man's Gift

    A teenage boy has turned up in Snowdonia, barely conscious and babbling about beautiful women and fairy feasts. The authorities blame magic mushrooms. The wise women say different and they want dryad's son, Daniel Mackmain, to investigate. He needs t...

  • The Cleaving

    Four women, four destinies â€" the future of King Arthur's court…A fresh, feminist retelling of the Arthurian legendsThe Cleaving is an Arthurian retelling that follows the tangled stories of four women: Nimue, Ygraine, Morgana, and Guinevere, as t...

  • The Green Man's Quarry

    The Green Man sends Daniel Mackmain to stop threats from folklore making trouble in the everyday world. Now a naiad and dryad want him to deal with the big cat they've seen prowling in their woods. Reports like this turn up in the tabloid press from ...



  • Different Times and Other Places

    The first collection in nearly a decade from acclaimed fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, this volume gathers the author's finest stories from the past twenty years and features two brand new tales. With stories set in the author's 2023 BSFA Award-win...

  • Northern Storm

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    The Aldabreshin Compass - 2

    The Aldabreshin Archipelago has been ravaged by war, its fragile alliances sundered by new enemies - enemies wielding forbidden elemental magic and spreading terror throughout the scattered southern realm. Warlord Daish Kheda has vowed to reclaim his...

  • Western Shore

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    The Aldabreshin Compass - 3

    Warlord Daish Kheda has been building political alliances, working to consolidate power over his new realm. Although he has saved his people from the twin evils of wizardry and dragons, he feels tainted by association with forbidden magic and fears h...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Juliet E. McKenna has published 32 books.

The next book by Juliet E. McKenna, Different Times and Other Places, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Juliet E. McKenna, The Thief's Gamble, was published in August 1999.

Yes. Juliet E. McKenna has 4 series.
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