Tansy Rayner Roberts

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2004
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Castle Charming

1 - Glass Slipper Scandal (Aug-2016)
2 - Dance, Princes, Dance (Apr-2017)
3 - Let Sleeping Princes Lie (Apr-2018)
4 - Dead Queen Walking (Jan-2020)

Creature Court

0.5 - Cabaret of Monsters (Nov-2018)
1 - Power and Majesty (Jun-2010)
2 - The Shattered City (Apr-2011)
3 - Reign of Beasts (Feb-2012)

Mocklore Chronicles

1 - Splashdance Silver (Sep-2013)
2 - Liquid Gold (Nov-2013)
3 - Ink Black Magic (Nov-2013)

Musketeer Space

1 - Musketeer Space (Aug-2016)
1.5 - Joyeux (Nov-2016)

Sparks and Philtres

1 - Gate Sinister (Jan-2023)
2 - House Perilous (Apr-2023)
3 - Land Glorious (Apr-2024)

Teacup Magic

1 - Tea and Sympathetic Magic (Nov-2020)
2 - The Frost Fair Affair (Nov-2020)
3 - Spellcracker's Honeymoon (Jul-2021)
4 - Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise (Oct-2022)
5 - Have Spirit, Will Duchess (Jun-2023)
6 - This Enchanted Island (Aug-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Glass Slipper Scandal (Aug-2016)

Fairytale Retellings: Twelve Dancing Princesses

Dance, Princes, Dance (Apr-2017)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Hobgoblin Boots

  • Siren Beat

    In "Siren Beat", a minor group of man-eating sirens on the docks of Hobart would not normally pose much of a challenge for Nancy, but she is distracted by the reappearance of Nick Cadmus, the man she blames for her sister's death. Sirens and...

  • Power and Majesty

    Creature Court - 1

    She almost missed the sight of a naked youth falling out of the sky. He was long and lean and muscled ... He was also completely off his face.A war is being fought in the skies over the city of Aufleur. No one sees the battles. No one knows how close...

  • Love and Romanpunk

    Thousands of years ago, Julia Agrippina wrote the true history of her family, the Caesars. The document was lost, or destroyed, almost immediately. (It included more monsters than you might think.) Hundreds of years ago, Fanny and Mary r...

  • The Shattered City

    Creature Court - 2

    She could hear that laughter again, and for a moment Velody was confused, not sure which dead man was mocking her.Velody now holds the leadership of the Creature Court. The unsteady alliances within the Court are beginning to fracture, as a series of...

  • Reign of Beasts

    Creature Court - 3

    The Creature Court is dangerous and deadly, but Velody must unite them for everyone's sake. A beautiful and compelling story of finding one's heart's desire. 'Raze it to the ground. No amount of ritual can return fortune to this place.' the Creature ...

  • Splashdance Silver

    Mocklore Chronicles - 1

    Kassa Daggersharp has just heard word that her dad's dead and she's heir to a vast silver treasure-trove from the famous Splashdance pirate ship.But in grand pirate tradition, the last will and testament of Vicious Bigbeard Daggersharp doesn't actual...

  • Ink Black Magic

    Mocklore Chronicles - 3

    Because sometimes, it takes cleavage and big skirts to save the world from those crazy teenagers. Kassa Daggersharp has been a pirate, a witch, a menace to public safety, a villain, a hero and a legend. These days, she lectures first year students on...

  • Liquid Gold

    Mocklore Chronicles - 2

    Liquid Gold â€" the most seductively dangerous substance in the history of the cosmos â€" has just been discovered in the Mocklore Empire. But no sooner does its creator, Mistress Opia, realise its breathtaking capacity to manipulate time than Sparro...



  • Kid Dark Against The Machine

    From the award-winning author of Cookie Cutter Superhero comes a brand new story about sidekicks, supervillains and saving the worldBack when he was called something else, Griff knew everything about superheroes, sidekicks and the mysterious machine ...

  • Glass Slipper Scandal

    Castle Charming - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    Charming is a kingdom where fairy tales come true, which has been bad news for its troubled royal family, but good news for the gutter press that thrives on the scandals and gossip provided by their teenage Princes Gone Wild. Kai is a rookie repor...

  • Musketeer Space

    Musketeer Space - 1

    "I haven't got a blade. I haven't got a ship. I washed out of the Musketeers. If this is your idea of honour, put down the swords and I'll take you on with my bare hands."When Dana D'Artagnan left home for a life of adventure, she never expected to f...

  • Bounty

    Bounty Fenetre isn't a bounty hunter. Delta Void isn't a mercenary. But trouble follows both of them, everywhere they go… It's not easy to make an honest living in the tiny magical empire of Mocklore. Six stories of adventure, magic, chaos and...

  • Unmagical Boy Story

    Viola Vale, Jules Nightshade & Ferdinand Chauvelin had everything: wealth, family legacy, powerful magic and high status at Belladonna University's College of the Real. But when Chauv lost his magic in an accident at school, he slipped away from t...

  • Joyeux

    Musketeer Space - 1.5

    It’s festival time on Paris Satellite: a seven day whirl of drunken bets, poor decision-making, religious contemplation and tinsel. But mostly, poor decision-making.

    Porthos and Athos aren’t going to sleep together, no matter what Aramis...

  • Dance, Princes, Dance

    Castle Charming - 2
    Fairytale Retellings: Twelve Dancing Princesses

    Winter has fallen over Castle Charming: a season of frosty sports, mistletoe kisses and desperate attempts at matchmaking. Chase and Cyrus, the castle’s resident Princes Gone Wild, are behaving suspiciously well. But who is dancing their way throug...

  • The Bromancers

    Hebe Hallow’s job is to manage her sister’s rock band Fake Geek Girl over three days of road tripping, irresponsible drinking and romantic hijinks at a magical music festival. Obsessive fans, inconvenient boyfriends, sinister spells and an extrem...

  • Girl Reporter

    From the award-winning author of Cookie Cutter Superhero and Kid Dark Against the Machine comes a brand new novella about girl reporters, superheroes, and interdimensional travelIn a world of superheroes, supervillains, and a machine that can create ...

  • Please Look After This Angel

    Even the most ordinary lives have extraordinary moments. A breath of frozen time.A shabby angel spotted in a bookshop, or at a party.An ex-girfriend turned famous poet, who wants to trap you as her muse.A lonely prisoner, weaving a tangled web to pas...



  • Let Sleeping Princes Lie

    Castle Charming - 3

    Dennis is a Royal Hound. His job is to protect the Royals of Castle Charming from harm. But when a plague of magical spinning wheels besieges the kingdom, it's his boyfriend Kai who falls under their spell. Kai didn't know he was a long-los...

  • Halloween Is Not A Verb

  • Merry Happy Valkyrie

    Norse myth and magic collides with a small town Tasmanian Christmas in this festive romantic fantasy!Lief Fraser has mixed feelings about returning home to Matilda, the only Australian town where it always snows at Christmas. As a TV weather presente...

  • Cabaret of Monsters

    Creature Court - 0.5

    Saturnalia in Aufleur is a time of topsy-turvy revels, of the world turned upside down and transformed before your eyes. The city's theatres produce an annual display of reversals, surprises and transformations.

    In this city, flappers can tr...

  • Dead Queen Walking

    Castle Charming - 4

    Once upon a time, Ella of Charming made a wish to become a fairy tale Queen, and won her happy ever after. But that was before the child was stolen, before the spinning wheel curse, and the lost decades fighting monsters in a dream world while life w...

  • Unreal Alchemy

    Hebe wants her sister's band to stop writing songs about her life.

    Sage wants to kiss boys and make music.

    Jules wants Sage.

    Holly wants to be famous.

    Juniper wants Holly to notice her.

    Ferd wants his magic back.

    <...

  • Holiday Brew

    What's an Aussie witch to do for Halloween when the weather is all spring sunshine and happiness? What's the appropriate ritual for breaking up with your boyfriend on the Summer Solstice? And who did Ferd Chauvelin kiss on New Year's Eve?Follow our B...

  • The Frost Fair Affair

    Teacup Magic - 2

    Our heroine stumbles across a precarious plot while printing political pamphlets...Thanks to last Season's scandal, Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne is now officially notorious. Wintering in Town, she hopes to use her new celebrity to campaign about the unfa...

  • Tea and Sympathetic Magic

    Teacup Magic - 1

    There's nothing more dangerous than an eligible duke...Every eligible young lady of the Teacup Isles wants to marry the Duke of Storm, except Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne, who is quite content on the shelf, thank you very much. All she wants is a quiet l...

  • Spellcracker's Honeymoon

    Teacup Magic - 3

    Our honeymooning heroine must unmask a magical murderer.Happily married, Mrs Mnemosyne Seabourne travels to an island of no magic, for a relaxing honeymoon with her new husband Thornbury.But the magic-free Isle of Aster is not what it seems. There's ...



  • Death of Snow

    In a hotel built of fairy tales, the mysterious Snow White lies dead.Cinders the receptionist and a detective called Wolf are on the trail of her killer, but the truth of the mystery is far stranger than any of them imagine.A witchy, magical short st...

  • Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise

    Teacup Magic - 4

    Spied beside the seaside: stepdaughter seeks scandal!Lady Liesl, fourth daughter of the Earl of Sandwich, always thought her fate was to marry well, and live a perfect life like her older sisters.Now she's had a taste of rebellion, and she likes it.....

  • Gate Sinister

    Sparks and Philtres - 1

    Disguised as a governess, the last fairy in Britannia infiltrates the household of the Gloucester family to fulfil a vital mission on behalf of her exiled people.On the run after offending the Royal family, two infamous magical engineers set out to c...

  • Gorgons Deserve Nice Things

    We lived in a world that did not allow women to breathe; how could we be anything but monsters?Tansy Rayner Roberts retells the stories of seven women from Greek mythology, giving voice to the scorned, the sidelined, and the monstrous. A young gorgon...

  • House Perilous

    Sparks and Philtres - 2

    Number 12, Acteon Place is more than just a London town house. It is a harbour for the most dangerous enchantress in Britannia. There are prisoners in the cellar. Mysterious magical experiments in the attic. A fairy killer on the loose. A hunted gove...

  • Have Spirit, Will Duchess

    Teacup Magic - 5

    Juno's old curse has come back to haunt her... literally.After two blissful years of ghost-free marriage, the spirits have come knocking at her door again. Her late mother-in-law has taken possession of her home, and her late husband is obsessed with...

  • Practical Witching

    Fun magical college adventures with a fabulous cast of geeky charactersIs there life after Belladonna U?Holly, Sage and Juniper pursue their musical dreams. Viola, Jules and Ferd rebel against their family's magical privilege. Does Hebe have to leave...

  • Land Glorious

    Sparks and Philtres - 3

    The Isle of Faerie is a terrible, glorious, wonderful land. The air is warm, the flowers sweet-smelling… and time no longer means quite what you thought it did. There are broken limbs on the grass, and the rivers want to drown you.Rinaldo Devic...

  • Time of the Cat

    It’s time to take history seriously.The cats and humans of Chronos College know that time travel is the best job in the world, and nothing bad can ever happen to them in the past… except that one time they lost a traveller. And that other...

  • This Enchanted Island

    Teacup Magic - 6

    Miss Metis Seabourne flees scandal and humiliation for a Continental sea voyage… and quite happily gets herself kidnapped by privateers.On board the Caliban, Metis finds a new family of misfit, piratical rogues including the handsome Capta...



  • Of Knives and Night-blooms

    “Never speak the name of the Black Raven aloud. Never fail your sacred duty. Never trust magic. And never travel on the River Divine…”CALYX: Didn’t mean to bind 3 assassins to her eternal magical servitude, but leaning into it...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tansy Rayner Roberts has published 40 books.

Tansy Rayner Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Of Knives and Night-blooms, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Hobgoblin Boots, was published in August 2004.

Yes. Tansy Rayner Roberts has 6 series.
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