Aliya Whiteley Books in Order

Ed and his sister grow up sharing a private world shaped by science fiction and fantasy games. As their childhood play grows more serious, the novel follows the unsettling consequences of imagination, power, family loyalty, and secrets.

Seven very different people arrive in a worn-down seaside town to train as customer-service workers. Asked to reveal three things about themselves, they bring rivalries, buried histories, and odd ambitions into a sharply comic office-world experiment.

Restless RAF wife Prudence Green and her friend Lena investigate after a woman on their base dies following a devastating discovery. Their amateur inquiry becomes a darkly comic journey through secrets, loneliness, and Prudence’s own troubled past.

This short-story collection follows people carrying fear, grief, and desire into unfamiliar places, from gardens and museums to islands and nightclubs. The stories mix dark humor with the grotesque, finding unsettling truths in the things people try to escape.

After all women vanish, men and boys in the Valley of the Rocks preserve their past through stories. Then strange yellow mushrooms grow from old graves, bringing a new, unsettling possibility that disrupts grief, desire, and the group’s fragile order.

Guests invited to an isolated Devon island receive a free stay, but must surrender a personal story to its vast library. As myths, memories, and competing roles take hold, they discover that the story itself may be their greatest threat.

In post-First World War Somerset, ambitious teenager Shirley Fearn wants more than the limits of village life. Her fascination with the scarred Mr. Tiller deepens when he brings an impossible message that threatens to reshape her choices.

In a world where people molt every seven years, bodyguard Rose Allington changes far more often than most. When actor Max Black’s stolen skins put him in danger, Rose returns to investigate a case tangled with memory, love, and identity.

Sixteen strange, humane stories examine bodies, gardens, language, work, and ecological change. From an Ice Age farm to hidden cities within us, Whiteley turns familiar life slightly sideways and lets its unease, tenderness, and dark humor show.

Bio-librarian Penelope Greensmith protects a remarkable seed bank inherited from her father. When a mysterious Horticulturalist says it may stop a plague spreading across the universe, Penelope leaves Earth, while her daughter Lily searches for her.

Whiteley explores fungi as food, medicine, decomposers, invaders, and ecological partners. Blending science, history, and personal reflection, she follows these often-overlooked organisms through the soil, our homes, our bodies, and the human imagination.

In a fortified future settlement, former enemies Jem and Isley run an inn built around memories of Earth’s war with Qita. A visitor from Isley’s past forces them to question what the war really changed, and what peace has cost.

Nineteen stories linked by travel move through future cars, spaceships, sea voyages, forests, historical fantasy, and horror. Each journey offers a different world or possible future, while asking what drives people to leave, return, or keep moving.

In 2314, internet archivist Rowena finds a mysterious story from 2024 about Fairly’s dangerous coming-of-age journey along the Horned Road. As Rowena follows the tale, both women are pushed to reconsider the lives and futures laid out for them.

After a disaster divides Fairharbour into parallel cities of endless winter and relentless summer, cousins Jamie and Esther find a way to communicate. Together, they search for the truth behind the split and a possible path back to one shared world.

Soldier Elize Janview guards an enemy prison after a terrible weapon restarts war between North and South. When spy and performer Marius Mondegreen arrives, Elize records his interrogation and begins to doubt the history, and reality, she has been taught.