Richard Swan

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2002
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Art of War Trilogy

1 - Reclamation (Mar-2015)
2 - The Ascendancy War (Feb-2016)
3 - Empire of the Fallen (Oct-2016)

Empire of the Wolf

1 - The Justice of Kings (Feb-2022)
2 - The Tyranny of Faith (Feb-2023)
3 - The Trials of Empire (Feb-2024)

The Great Silence

1 - Grave Empire (Feb-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

Warhammer 40,000

Blood Harvest (Sep-2023)
Tears Of Raphaela (Apr-2024)

Warhammer Universe

Blood Harvest (Sep-2023)
Tears Of Raphaela (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Marked Wager

    After a day of horse racing, someone will leave the track with cash stuffed in their pockets. Jett, a twenty-two year old college student, wants to steal it from them. He asks Billy to join him. Together they form a business venture. Jett, working in...

  • The Second Judgmenta

    In a senseless act of violence, Martin Billington, the twenty-year-old son of a wealthy businessman, fires a fatal shot at Ashley, a law student, as she leaves the coffee shop. The District Attorney, with overwhelming evidence stacked against him, s...

  • The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

    Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you t...

  • Reclamation

    The Art of War Trilogy - 1

    Espionage, intelligence, warfare, politics, religion, diplomacy, genocide... the Reclamation has begun.Tier Three: a compact of six vast interstellar empires, intricately bound by political, diplomatic and trade accords. Together, after centuries of ...

  • The Pastor

    Sweeny known for his evangelical skills and exceptional knowledge of the Holy Bible was held in the highest esteem by Christians all over the world. But he was a murderer and a thief who continually avoided detection. Even when he was finally apprehe...

  • Whispers from the Pond

    Four people, each battling with their own issues in modern life, separately come across a wise sage in a mysterious place. Each of them is helped along the way, but they also learn of a dark secret that connects them all....

  • The Ascendancy War

    The Art of War Trilogy - 2

    The Ascendancy War has raged for six months. After two enormous fleet actions at New Port Louis and the Pillars of Cain, the seemingly unstoppable provari advance into UN space has finally been forced to a grinding halt. In the respite of stalemate, ...

  • The Requital

    Martin, the teenage son of Stanfield, a wealthy businessman, sits in jail for the senseless murder of Ashley, a law student. Stanfield uses his wealth to engage crooked attorneys who produce fraudulent medical records at Martin's trial. When Trent, t...

  • Empire of the Fallen

    The Art of War Trilogy - 3

    The Kaygryn Empire is coming. Amidst the embers of the Ascendancy War, old enmities must be forgotten and new alliances forged if the UN is to rally against the Imperial Fleet of Reclamation. Yet even on the eve of battle, the beleaguered forces of T...



  • VIPER One

    The United Nations and the Provar Ascendancy are at war, and across the galaxy, human politicians, generals and diplomats are being abducted as part of a brutal campaign of psychological warfare.While the vast armies of humanity battle frantically to...

  • Family Without Conscience

    Phillip and Mary raise three children: John, Sara, and Rachel. When they win 4 million dollars in the lotto, John and Sara decide to murder them and frame Rachel. The plan works to perfection. Rachel is convicted of the crime. Sara eliminates John...

  • VIPER One: Countervalue

    Ariadne has been abandoned. As the UN reels from multiple Ascendancy attacks and cedes hundreds of lightyears of territory, Solar Operations Command has initiated a policy of "Strategic Sacrifice". Hundreds of colonies across the Outer Ring will be l...

  • Children of the Empire

    ‘Humanity once dominated the Milky Way galaxy. We were a civilisation of freedom and technological marvel. Now we exist as wombs and swords. The kaygryn breed us for war; we are martial slaves, nothing more. And we are approaching the tipping point...

  • Hadan's Reach

    Hadan’s Reach. To the kaygryn, a major federal nation of a few hundred million. To the UN, an irrelevant backwater garrisoned by a few platoons of bored troopers. As the UN and the Ascendancy thrash out the final terms of the largest and most contr...

  • Melody's Unicorn

    Melody is on a quest to discover her real identity and purpose when she encounters a dryad on Ealing Common! After hearing the dryad's prophecy, Melody's day becomes even stranger when she spots a unicorn in Oxford Street, and follows it into the mys...

  • Earth Remembers

    “It was the Martians who made contact, first via Nazca, then radio, and finally their advanced crystal drive starships. They brought technology and medicines and made late 19th Century Earth a vast melting pot of anachronisms. The aliens filled the...

  • The Justice of Kings

    Empire of the Wolf - 1

    The Justice of Kings, the first in a new epic fantasy trilogy, follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor’s Justice – a detective, judge and executioner all in one. As he unravels a web of secrets and lies, Vonvalt discovers a ...

  • The Tyranny of Faith

    Empire of the Wolf - 2

    Action, intrigue, and magic collide in the second book in an epic fantasy trilogy, where Sir Konrad Vonvalt’s role as an Emperor’s Justice requires him to be a detective, judge, and executioner all in one -- but these are dangerous times to be a ...

  • Blood Harvest

    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe



  • Melody's Dragon

    Melody has already encountered a unicorn in Faërie. Now a dragon's command leads her on a perilous quest through the land of Wales, whose lakes and castles offer daunting portals into the Otherworld. She finds unexpected allies and unexpected da...

  • The Trials of Empire

    Empire of the Wolf - 3

    The third novel in Richard Swan's acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy triumphantly concludes the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor’s Justice â€" a detective, judge and executioner all in one.  THE TIME OF JUDGEMENT IS AT HAND   The E...

  • Tears Of Raphaela

    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe

  • Grave Empire

    The Great Silence - 1

    From critically acclaimed author Richard Swan, Grave Empire begins the epic tale of an empire on the verge of industrial revolution, where sorcery and arcane practices are outlawed â€" and where an ancient prophecy threatens the coming end of days.Bl...

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Richard Swan has published 23 books.

The next book by Richard Swan, Grave Empire, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Richard Swan, The Marked Wager, was published in July 2002.

Yes. Richard Swan has 3 series.
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