Alexander Gordon Smith Books in Order

This illustrated reference answers children's questions about weather, climate, the world around them and space. Photographs, diagrams and charts accompany explanations of scientific subjects, while a glossary helps readers understand unfamiliar words as they explore a wide range of topics.

This family atlas combines physical and political maps with photographs of landscapes, buildings, people and wildlife. Country facts and a gazetteer support its geographical coverage, helping readers connect places on the map with their environments, populations and distinctive features.

Organized around fifty-two ideas, this creative writing guide helps writers overcome blocks and develop their work. Exercises and advice address character, style and atmosphere, offering practical ways to begin writing, maintain momentum and experiment with the elements of a story.

This illustrated introduction explores the Solar System and its place within the universe. Explanations of planets, stars and galaxies accompany photographs and artwork, giving young readers a framework for understanding the objects and processes that shape the space beyond Earth.

Nate and Cat win scholarships to inventor Ebenezer Saint's academy, joining twenty-three other children at Saint Solutions. Their opportunity to develop inventions becomes a dangerous mystery when they discover that the institution's plans may prevent them from ever returning home.

This guide examines how to write books that hold children's attention, from choosing suitable words and themes to deciding on length. It offers authors practical advice for shaping stories around young readers' interests and the demands of writing for them.

Nate and Cat believe they have defeated Ebenezer Saint, but a car accident involving their friend Allan raises new fears. Metal beneath his damaged skin suggests that someone has been replacing people, drawing the young inventors into another dangerous investigation.

Alex Sawyer is dragged into the laboratories beneath Furnace Penitentiary, where black nectar transforms prisoners into monsters. As experiments change his body and threaten his identity, he must resist the prison's control while seeking a way to survive and escape.

Thirteen-year-old Alex Sawyer is framed for murder and sentenced to life in Furnace, an underground prison for young offenders. With inmates disappearing at night and figures patrolling its tunnels, he must find allies and escape before he is taken.

After an escape attempt fails, Alex Sawyer is confined in the depths of Furnace Penitentiary. Isolation and the prison's hidden horrors threaten his grip on reality, forcing him to search for another chance at freedom while struggling to remain himself.

Alex Sawyer escapes Furnace Penitentiary, but the experiments he endured have left him changed. Outside the prison, his new abilities bring danger rather than safety as he confronts Alfred Furnace and discovers how far the institution's influence extends.

Alfred Furnace's creatures threaten to turn the world into an extension of his prison, with humanity facing enslavement. Alex Sawyer must use the monstrous power within him to confront the man responsible, risking the identity he has fought to preserve.

In Belgium during December 1944, young British and American soldiers encounter horrors beyond the battlefield. A German officer and his force enter the conflict as creatures in gas masks stalk the fighting, threatening soldiers on both sides of the war.

Cal, Brick and Daisy discover that ordinary people can abruptly become intent on killing them, then return to normal. Seeking refuge and answers, the teenagers confront a force that connects their lives and makes humanity itself an unpredictable threat.

Cal, Daisy, Brick and companions leave their refuge to investigate the force turning people into murderous enemies. As their search exposes more of the fury's nature, they must decide whom to trust and survive a world that wants them dead.

Fifteen-year-old Marlow encounters Pan and learns of the Devil's Engine, a machine that grants wishes in exchange for a contract. Drawn into its war, he faces the consequences of a bargain whose price may be his soul.

Marlow and Pan are on the run after betrayal leaves them facing enemies with seemingly unlimited resources. To survive, they must confront the machines behind the Devil's Engine and challenge the forces controlling a war built on dangerous bargains.

Trapped in hell, Marlow and Pan seek a bargain with the Devil that could return them to Earth. With monsters threatening invasion and the Hellraisers stripped of their advantages, survival depends on trust, ingenuity and the allies willing to fight.

A young woman's mutilated body in Norfolk evokes the legend of Black Shuck, but the wounds suggest something other than an animal. As another victim appears, DCI Kett pursues a killer while struggling with his missing wife and three children.

After his wife Billie is abducted in London, DCI Robert Kett moves to Norwich with their three children. When girls disappear while delivering newspapers, he joins the investigation, pursuing a predator while his own family's unanswered questions remain close.

Tommi Bright shares a childhood nightmare of a witch, a room and a table piled with meat. Years later, the witch returns to finish what she began, forcing Tommi to confront a terror that has escaped the confines of sleep.

Criminals connected to DCI Kett's past cases are being killed by a vigilante, forcing him to protect a man he once pursued. As the investigation develops, Kett discovers that he too has become a target on the killer's list.

Blake Barton opens his door to a stranger claiming to be the Devil, who announces the precise time of his death. Threats against his wife and child trap Blake in a struggle involving mysterious followers and an approaching deadline.

English teacher Jack Softley's brother Ian, a killer employed by governments, is murdered. When the same people target Jack, he must uncover Ian's secrets and draw on his own hidden past to survive the agents and assassins hunting him.

A discovery beneath London leads DCI Kett toward a killer known as the Pig Man and an expensive house concealing horrors. The case also offers a possible lead to his abducted wife, drawing him back to the city.

A holiday on the Norfolk coast is interrupted when four teenagers disappear, drawing DCI Kett into a new investigation. Evidence points toward a kidnapper who is already dead, while a disturbing voice supplies clues to the missing children's whereabouts.

After twenty years of silence, Kett's mother invites him to an isolated village, where a murdered couple's newborn has been stolen. Her demand that he avoid the police leaves him investigating undercover with Porter and Savage against a dangerous deadline.

During a bitter Norfolk winter, a body at an ancient stone suggests ritual sacrifice. With Kett unavailable, Porter and Savage investigate further deaths at other stones, confronting a pattern tied to local legends of a figure called the Hateful Man.

A girl's body at Norwich's Cow Tower, surrounded by thorns, brings DCI Kett's new task force a disturbing case. A severed finger linked to another missing girl and clues resembling fairy tales force the detectives to decipher the killer's messages.

A police team-building visit to a Norfolk town is disrupted by two deaths linked to a designer drug called Jaw Breaker. DCI Kett and his colleagues investigate as gangs, a cult and threatened residents complicate the search for those responsible.

Kett is abducted and imprisoned in a warehouse labyrinth filled with traps and other captives as Hollenbeck resurfaces. Porter, Savage and Aaron Duke race to locate him, while the detective must navigate his confinement and the dangers awaiting inside.

A parcel containing a severed foot arrives at a Norwich student house, followed by further neatly wrapped body parts. Kett, Porter, Savage and Duke seek the victims and their killer, trying to understand the message behind the deliveries.