Mark Lawrence

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Book of the Ancestor

1 - Red Sister (Apr-2017)
2 - Grey Sister (Apr-2018)
3 - Holy Sister (Feb-2020)

Book of the Ice

1 - The Girl and the Stars (Apr-2020)
2 - The Girl and the Mountain (Apr-2021)
3 - The Girl and the Moon (May-2022)

The Broken Empire

1 - Prince of Thorns (Aug-2011)
2 - King of Thorns (Aug-2012)
3 - Emperor of Thorns (Aug-2013)

Impossible Times

1 - One Word Kill (May-2019)
2 - Limited Wish (Jun-2019)
3 - Dispel Illusion (Jan-2020)

The Library Trilogy

1 - The Book That Wouldn't Burn (May-2023)
2 - The Book That Broke the World (Apr-2024)

Red Queen's War

1 - Prince of Fools (Jun-2014)
2 - The Liar's Key (Jun-2015)
3 - The Wheel of Osheim (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Prince of Thorns

    The Broken Empire - 1

    When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king... It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the...

  • King of Thorns

    The Broken Empire - 2

    In Book One of the Broken Empire, Mark Lawrence brought to life the story of a boy in search of power and vengeance. Now, in King of Thorns, that boy’s journey into manhood takes him to the dark depths waiting within his soul… The boy who woul...

  • 36 States

    Seventeen thousand miles across thirty six States in three months - Mark Lawrence's road trip of a lifetime will take you to some of America's most beautiful - and bizarre - places and introduce you to the folks who live there. If you've ever thought...

  • Untitled Thorns

  • Select Mode

    in Unfettered

    Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short...

  • Emperor of Thorns

    The Broken Empire - 3

    Mark Lawrence brings to a thrilling close his epic trilogy of a boy who would be king, a king who would desire an empire -- and an empire on the edge of destruction... King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now -- and king of seven nations. His goal -- ...

  • Prince of Fools

    Red Queen's War - 1

    The Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath’s devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince… The Red Queen is old b...

  • During the Dance

    The magic's in the dance and the dance goes on. Dad stopped drinking the day my sister was born. He called her his angel, and the booze didn't take him back until she died. He came drunk to the funeral, crying and roaring, loud enough for two parent...

  • The Liar's Key

    Red Queen's War - 2

    The Liar’s Key continues the story of the unusual fellowship between a rogue prince and a weary warrior… After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki’...



  • The Secret

    "The Secret" was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Mark Lawrence says, "'The Secret' is set in the world where my Broken Empire and Red Queen's War trilogies take place. ...

  • The Wheel of Osheim

    Red Queen's War - 3

    Mark Lawrence’s epic fantasy continues as a reluctant prince returns from the bowels of Hell to engage in his greatest battle yet -- among the living and the dead. All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his ...

  • Red Sister

    Book of the Ancestor - 1

    The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen’s War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. I...

  • Road Brothers

    This contains the 4 new stories that are the difference between the old and new versions of Road Brothers.The old version of Road Brothers with 10 stories was removed from sale in March of 2017.The new version of Road Brothers with 14 stories release...

  • Grey Sister

    Book of the Ancestor - 2

    Behind its walls, the Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices hard...

  • Knee-Deep in Grit

    Get knee-deep in grit with twenty-six grimdark fantasy and sci-fi short stories from the shadowy vaults of Grimdark Magazine. The top names in dark speculative fiction and the genre's brightest newcomers bring you stories of war, betrayal, violenc...

  • Holy Sister

    Book of the Ancestor - 3

    The searing conclusion of the thrilling epic fantasy trilogy that saw a young girl trained by an arcane order of nuns grow into the fiercest of warriors... They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Co...

  • One Word Kill

    Impossible Times - 1

    A Goodreads Choice Award finalist.

    “I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer.” " George R.R. Martin

    In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even t...

  • Limited Wish

    Impossible Times - 2

    One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance.

    It’s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wa...

  • Dispel Illusion

    Impossible Times - 3

    Sometimes being wrong is the right answer. Nick Hayes’s genius is in wringing out the universe’s secrets. It’s a talent that’s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He’s seen...



  • The Visitor

    For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. The saga continues with Mark Lawrence's short story The VisitorThe visitor comes... but she needs to be invited in. ...

  • The Girl and the Stars

    Book of the Ice - 1

    A stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister. In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’...

  • The Girl and the Mountain

    Book of the Ice - 2

    The second novel in the thrilling and epic new fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.On the planet Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock.For generations the priests of the Black Rock hav...

  • The Girl and the Moon

    Book of the Ice - 3

    In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world. On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on all sides by ice plains where only the s...

  • The Book That Wouldn't Burn

    The Library Trilogy - 1

    Two strangers find themselves connected by a mysterious and vast library, which contains many wonders and even more secrets, in the powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Tho...

  • Timothy Gets Stuck

    Tales of Timothy Tip Truck is a series of short, fun stories that are based on real-life experiences by the author. They relate to the workings of trucks and earthmoving machinery as told to his two young boys at the time. The stories combine fun wit...

  • Timothy Helps the Animals

    The second exciting story in the Tales of Timothy Truck series is about Timothy and his earthmoving friends helping the animals when a new subdivision is being built. An adventurous tale with a happy ending for all the animals and children....

  • Timothy and the Flat Tyres

    The third adventurous story in the Tales of Timothy Tip Truck series involves Timothy and his friends and a scary situation with a big freight train. Timothy unfortunately does not listen to a safety warning from his older and wiser friends. Let's al...

  • Lisa Goes Swimming

    Book 4 in the Tales of Timothy Tip Truck series is another adventure with Timothy and his best friend Lisa. Whilst trying to do the right thing for the environment, Lisa has a little accident which lands her in the water. I hope she is OK!...

  • The Book That Broke the World

    The Library Trilogy - 2

    Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn. The Library spans worlds...



  • The Book That Held Her Heart

    Two people once connected by a vast and mysterious library are now separated and must overcome time and distance to reunite and bring peace to their worlds… The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to brea...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Lawrence has published 30 books.

The next book by Mark Lawrence, The Book That Held Her Heart, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Mark Lawrence has 6 series.
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