Victoria Goddard

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2014
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Greenwing & Dart

1 - Stargazy Pie (Jan-2016)
1.5 - Stone Speaks to Stone (Apr-2018)
2 - Bee Sting Cake (Sep-2017)
3 - Whiskeyjack (Sep-2018)
4 - Blackcurrant Fool (Nov-2019)
5 - Love-in-a-Mist (Oct-2020)
6 - Plum Duff (Dec-2021)
7 - Clary Sage (May-2023)

Lays of the Hearth-Fire

1 - The Hands of the Emperor (Sep-2018)
1 - Those Who Hold the Fire (Aug-2022)
2 - At the Feet of the Sun (Dec-2022)
3 - The Game of Courts (Oct-2023)

The Red Company Reformed

1 - The Return of Fitzroy Angursell (Dec-2020)
2 - The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul (May-2022)

The Red Company

1 - Derring-Do for Beginners (Apr-2023)

The Sisters Avramapul

1 - The Bride of the Blue Wind (Apr-2017)
2 - The Warrior of the Third Veil (Nov-2017)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Scheherezade

    On the thousand and first night of Scheherezade the Storyteller’s marriage, things do not go at all as she had hoped -- nor do they end as she had expected. A short story in the Tales from Ysthar collection....

  • Inkebarrow

    William Shakespeare takes a wrong turn going beyond the fields he knows -- and in the Black Bull of Inkebarrow, he finds a turn from history to magic....

  • Not Far From the Tree

    Behind the corners of our world, there is magic. As the Lord of Ysthar, Raphael is responsible for it.An honest man, his lies are legion. An infamous recluse, his social circle includes Scheherezade, Shakespeare, and the Crown Prince of Faerie. He i...

  • Till Human Voices Wake Us

    Raphael Amian came to Earth from the wreck of another world, walking the centuries immortal with the gifts of music and magic. As Orpheus in ancient Greece, the loss of his beloved Eurydice nearly broke him, and in his grief his uncontrolled power ca...

  • Rook

  • The Tower at the Edge of the World

    East of the Sun ... West of Astandalas ... As far away from anywhere as it is possible to be and still be civilized, there is tower. To its east is an endless abyss; to the north and south are grassy dunes haunted only by birds; and to the west is th...

  • Stargazy Pie

    Greenwing & Dart - 1

    Magic is out of fashion.Good manners never are.Jemis Greenwing returned from university with a broken heart, a bad cold, and no prospects beyond a problematic inheritance and a job at the local bookstore.Ragnor Bella is a placid little market town on...

  • The Seven Brides-To-Be of Generalissimo Vlad

    A promise is a promise ... Portia MacArthur is possibly the best courier in the galaxy. Severely scarred from a training accident, she prefers the solitude of space to social interactions, especially ones involving her family. Vlad Millington, new Ge...

  • The Bride of the Blue Wind

    The Sisters Avramapul - 1

    What the gods want, they take. Sometimes the gods take a mortal to be their beloved. The stories say those left behind should rejoice. Pali’s sister Sardeet was taken by the Lord of the Blue Wind-but there is something strange and terrible about th...



  • Bee Sting Cake

    Greenwing & Dart - 2

    Magic is out of fashion.Gambling is merely illegal.Neither law nor common sense has ever stopped anyone in Ragnor Bella from making -- or breaking -- their fortunes at the table, at the racetrack, and especially at the Dartington Harvest Fair. With M...

  • The Warrior of the Third Veil

    The Sisters Avramapul - 2

    In the cities along the river Ihil, the nomad tribes of the Middle Desert are almost as legendary as the gods. Sardeet is the youngest daughter of the Bandit Queen of the Oclaresh, but her father was a man of the city, and after her husband's death, ...

  • Stone Speaks to Stone

    Greenwing & Dart - 1.5

    Jack Greenwing is good at scouting. He's renowned for being able to hold on in battle long past bravery. He was once given a trophy for his courage by the hand of the Emperor himself.At Loe, where the Stone Speakers can call down avalanches and lands...

  • In the Company of Gentlemen

    The greatest poet of the Empire of Astandalas was widely considered the infamous outlaw Fitzroy Angursell. Almost all of his poems and songs were banned, but that had the tendency merely to encourage everyone to read them. Hilarious, pointed, and sca...

  • The Hands of the Emperor

    Lays of the Hearth-Fire - 1

    An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can change the course of history.

    Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary of the Last Emperor of Astandalas, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Lor...

  • Whiskeyjack

    Greenwing & Dart - 3

    Magic is out of fashion.Outlaws make their own.Jemis Greenwing has slain a dragon, been acknowledged as the Viscount St-Noire, and not incidentally also been given a raise. After a chaotic first month back in Ragnor Bella, he's finally feeling confid...

  • Blackcurrant Fool

    Greenwing & Dart - 4

    Magic is out of fashion. Orio City is where that's decided.When his best friend Mr. Dart unexpectedly needs to make an urgent trip to Orio City, Jemis Greenwing's immediate response to ask when.  He's willing to make up to his grandmother so she...

  • In the Realms of Gold

    Five invitations into the realms of poetry to five very different people, set in a world not altogether dissimilar to our own, resonant with myth and magic. These are standalone tales associated with Till Human Voices Wake Us. Contains: Sch...

  • The Connoisseur

    Arthur MacEachern was a celebrated Canadian writer when he lost his Muse. To success, he thought; it wasn't until a fateful trip to the dentist that he realized his Muse lived somewhere else entirely ... Receiver of an Honourable Mention at the ...

  • Love-in-a-Mist

    Greenwing & Dart - 5

    Magic is out of fashion.Murder, like romance, is always a possibility.The journey home from Orio City was supposed to be straightforward. Avoid being captured by brigands or agents of the criminal gangs; try not to cause any further spiritual or magi...



  • The Return of Fitzroy Angursell

    The Red Company Reformed - 1

    Artorin Damara is the Last Emperor of Astandalas and present Lord Magus of Zunidh. He is respected as a great mage, revered as a living god, regarded as the embodiment of power and wealth and majesty. Few have seen him in anything but the most resple...

  • Petty Treasons

    Artorin Damara, last Emperor of Astandalas, is in need of a new secretary. It has been three years since he woke from a magical coma caused by the collapse of his empire, and he can barely acknowledge his own existence, let alone articulate what...

  • Plum Duff

    Greenwing & Dart - 6

    Magic is out of fashion.Except, obviously, at Winterturn.Winterturn in Ragnor Bella is a holiday for family, feasting, and a few religious festivities.Jemis Greenwing and Mr. Dart are both quite ready for a quiet week or two after their adventures go...

  • Aurelius (to be called) Magnus

    Aurelius Magnus has not yet been stolen by the Sun and Moon. He has not yet led the Empire of Astandalas into what will later be hailed as a golden age, nor met the man whose friendship and loyalty will be celebrated in legend for two thousand y...

  • Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander

    Someone always leaves. That's what Tovo has been saying to anyone who asks him why his great-nephew Kip Mdang isn't at his side, isn't fulfilling the tasks and obligations of the tanà, isn't there to tend the fire, isn't home. Someone always lea...

  • Terec and the Wild

    It's not actually illegal to be a wild mage.Terec reminds himself of this, often.Nor is it illegal to go north.He reminds himself of that, too.Terec was born with a wild talent for fire, and can no longer suppress it. Soon he will not be able to hide...

  • The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul

    The Red Company Reformed - 2

    Before the Fall of the Empire of Astandalas, the Red Company was legendary. A dozen or so years after that cataclysm, they have almost faded into myth. Pali Avramapul may not have gone under her own name since the dissolution of the Red Company,...

  • Those Who Hold the Fire

    Lays of the Hearth-Fire - 1

    The tanà holds the fire of the community. Thirteen-year-old Kip's always felt a bit of an outsider, but he knows he has what it takes to become the next tanà. He just needs to persuade his Buru Tovo that he's ready for the next step of ...

  • At the Feet of the Sun

    Lays of the Hearth-Fire - 2

    The long awaited sequel to THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR!Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who has now left him behind in the Palace to safeguard the world during his absence on a quest to find ...

  • The Saint of the Bookstore



  • Derring-Do for Beginners

    The Red Company - 1

    Friends by chance--or is it fate?Damian Raske and Jullanar Thistlethwaite are about as different as can be. Damian is a young swordsman, dreaming of being the best in the world, hardly aware of what lies beyond the outskirts of his city, let alone th...

  • Clary Sage

    Greenwing & Dart - 7

    Northwest Oriole is a land of small countries and many universities, where scholarship is greatly regarded. Choosing a school is thus a matter of great weight, no matter your rank or wealth. Hal has always known where he's going, because he is the Im...

  • The Game of Courts

    Lays of the Hearth-Fire - 3

    The Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius--Conju to his friends, or he would be if any of them had survived the Fall of Astandalas--survived the cataclysmic destruction of the Empire of Astandalas in perfectly good health, thank you very much. If ...

  • Still Small Voice

    One death, two victims - one seen, one hiddenA thrilling rollercoaster, combining a multi-layered crime drama with an emotionally charged family saga, Still Small Voice looks at a fractured marriage and the fatal consequences of love, lust, and obses...

  • The Bone Harp

    Thrice-cursed bard and warrior-elf Tamsin wakes up in Elfland after what might or might not have been his death, healed and hale for the first time in millennia. Somewhat confused but not entirely unhappy with this turn of events, he sets off in the ...

  • Traveller's Joy

    Hal's university career ends quite satisfactorily for himself, but with heartbreak, drama, and painful ignominy for his best friend Jemis. Nevertheless, Hal stood with Jemis when academic argument turned violent, and he'll stand with him now as he fi...

  • Terec and the Wall

    In the north of Ysthar, past the edge of the Empire of Astandalas, there is the tundra, and beyond the tundra, the great wall of ice. No one goes there, save for a few hunters after mammoth ivory or furs, unless it is to look upon the Ice and then, s...

  • The Glassblower

    A novelette set on Ysthar--in Venice, to be exact, on a foggy winter's night in the early 18th century, when Scheherezade the Storyteller finds herself looking for a warm place to spend the night. She's not particularly successful on that front. She ...

  • Feonie and the Islander Regalia

    Féonie Durgalen was all of nineteen when she was offered the position of costumier to the new Lord Chancellor of Zunidh, Cliopher Mdang. She seized the opportunity when it was presented for her own ambition and the sake of her family—but a...

  • The Weaver of the Middle Desert

    The three daughters of the Bandit Queen of the Oclaresh are young, but already they walk amongst legends. This does not prevent them from occasionally meeting (or perhaps making) friction amongst their own family, and so it is that one day Arzu decid...



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Victoria Goddard has published 39 books.

Victoria Goddard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Weaver of the Middle Desert, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Victoria Goddard, Scheherezade, was published in April 2014.

Yes. Victoria Goddard has 5 series.
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