Celia Rees Books in Order
This page lists Celia Rees books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and helpful where-to-start notes for her historical and supernatural fiction.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Celia Rees books in publication order
30 books
Every Step You Take
by Celia Rees
1993
A murdered woman, a killer on the run, and a group of teenagers heading to a hostel in Wales move on a collision course. Rees's first novel blends youth drama with the pressure of a full-on thriller.
Colour Her Dead
by Celia Rees
1994
Years after the unsolved murder of little Jennifer Beresford, Jude Hughes finds the beads Jenny wore on the day she died. A school project with her friend Emma becomes a tense search for the truth.
The Bailey Game
by Celia Rees
1994
Alex still feels guilty about what happened when Michael Bailey was bullied and nobody stopped it. When new girl Lauren becomes the next target, Alex has to decide whether staying silent is its own kind of cruelty.
Blood Sinister
by Celia Rees
1996
Sent to recover at her grandmother's house, Ellen finds old diaries that describe a handsome Count from beyond the forest. As her strength fades, the past starts reaching for her in a very hungry way.
Midnight Hour
by Celia Rees
1997
Blair Paige has lived with fame since childhood, but one admirer has turned obsession into a plan. Someone is watching her every move and waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Soul Taker
by Celia Rees
1997
Lonely Lewis James thinks the mysterious toyshop owner Mr Jardine might be the first adult to really see him. But the help he offers comes at a terrible price, and Lewis is drawn into a bargain for souls.
The Vanished
by Celia Rees
1997
Fraser starts out treating the city's ghost stories and disappearances as good material for the school paper. Then the clues begin to point toward something real, and the investigation turns personal.
A Is for Apparition
by Celia Rees
1998
Halloween draws Davey and his friends back into the city's haunted history. What starts as another creepy night out becomes a fresh collision of ghosts, time slips, and dangers they barely understand.
H Is for Haunting
by Celia Rees
1998
On Midsummer's Eve, Davey, Kate, Elinor, and Tom join a ghost tour that goes badly off script. A brush with the city's past leaves Davey facing a terrifying threshold between the living and the dead.
N Is for Nightmare
by Celia Rees
1998
While helping on an archaeological dig, Davey and Kate witness a discovery that should have stayed buried. Ancient forces wake up fast, and the past proves far more dangerous than a history lesson.
S Is for Shudder
by Celia Rees
1998
The long fight with the ghost city reaches its sharpest edge in this final H.A.U.N.T.S. adventure. Davey must rely on his second sight one more time as fear, time, and the dead close in around him.
T Is For Terror
by Celia Rees
1998
Davey's friends in the ghost city are in trouble, and the danger is spilling back into the present. To save them, he has to face the enemy behind the haunting before everything is lost.
U Is for Unbeliever
by Celia Rees
1998
A new teacher at Davey's school is not what she seems, and soon half the place is under her spell. Davey's second sight tells him something is badly wrong, but believing it is the easy part.
Ghost Chamber
by Celia Rees
1999
Hugh Goodman visits his estranged archaeologist father at a crumbling old inn with a buried past. Strange noises, suspicious strangers, and a restless Templar ghost turn the family holiday into a real haunting.
The Cunning Man
by Celia Rees
2000
Finn dreads the Salt House above dangerous Westwater Bay, where shipwreck legends and old fears of drowning refuse to stay buried. When she meets the unnerving Griffiths, local folklore starts to feel horribly real.
Truth or Dare
by Celia Rees
2000
Thirteen-year-old Josh starts digging into the death of his uncle Patrick, an autistic boy who died while investigating a flying saucer crash. What begins as curiosity opens up a buried family secret.
Witch Child
by Celia Rees
2000
In 1659, Mary Newbury escapes England after her grandmother is hanged as a witch. Her hidden diary follows her to a harsh Puritan settlement in the New World, where even kindness can look like sorcery.
Decayed
by Celia Rees
2001
This anniversary Point Horror collection gathers several chilling stories, including Celia Rees's Blood Sinister. It is a door back into the teen horror boom, with curses, secrets, and old-fashioned supernatural menace.
A Trap in Time
by Celia Rees
2002
Davey's psychic gift keeps dragging him toward places where past and present collide. A familiar face, a winter haunting, and an archaeological discovery trap him in another dangerous struggle with the supernatural.
City of Shadows
by Celia Rees
2002
A birthday ghost walk awakens Davey Williams's second sight and drops him into an older, shadowed city. Once the dead start pushing into the present, Davey learns his strange gift may be the only thing protecting his family.
Sorceress
by Celia Rees
2002
Centuries after Mary Newbury hid her diary, Agnes Herne helps uncover the rest of her story. The novel links past and present as Mary's life, healing powers, and losses come further into view.
The Host Rides Out
by Celia Rees
2002
A psychic storm sweeps through Davey's city as ghosthunters and darker forces close in. To save both living friends and those stranded in the ghost city, he has to trust the power he never wanted.
Pirates!
by Celia Rees
2003
Nancy Kington, daughter of a wealthy planter, and Minerva Sharpe, an enslaved girl on her father's estate, choose escape over the lives laid out for them. Friendship drives them toward the sea and a life of piracy.
The Wish House
by Celia Rees
2005
During a long summer in Wales, Richard is drawn to the strange family living at the usually empty Wish House. His obsession with Clio leads him into first love, old lore, and secrets better left alone.
The Stone Testament
by Celia Rees
2007
As signs of apocalypse gather and the Mayan Long Count runs down, Abraham Black races to stop the End Time. With his son and a small band of allies, he faces ancient knowledge and ruthless enemies.
Sovay
by Celia Rees
2008
With revolution shaking Europe, wilful Sovay is pushed far beyond her sheltered English upbringing. Highway robbery, family secrets, and political intrigue force her to decide what freedom will really cost.
The Fool's Girl
by Celia Rees
2010
In 1601, Violetta and the fool Feste come to London to recover a stolen treasure from the treacherous Malvolio. Their search pulls Shakespeare's world into a lively mix of disguise, danger, and romance.
This is Not Forgiveness
by Celia Rees
2011
Jamie falls hard for Caro, a magnetic girl his sister distrusts on sight. As her disappearances, scars, and talk of direct action pile up, love turns into something darker and far more dangerous.
Glass Town Wars
by Celia Rees
2018
After Tom falls into a coma, an experimental device draws him into Glass Town, a war-torn world born from the Brontës' childhood imagination. There he joins Augusta in a conflict that spills across past, present, and future.
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
by Celia Rees
2020
Just after World War II, schoolteacher Edith Graham heads to occupied Germany under a borrowed identity. As she hides coded messages in recipes and hunts a Nazi network, every new friendship becomes a risk.
Where to start with Celia Rees
If you want her best-known historical fantasy: Witch Child → Sorceress
If you want sweeping adventure and rebellion: Pirates! → Sovay
If you want a Shakespeare twist: The Fool's Girl
If you want contemporary tension: The Wish House → This is Not Forgiveness
If you want her adult historical spy novel: Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
Celia Rees sub-series and character series
Colour Her Dead books in order
Explore this seriesH.A.U.N.T.S. books in order
Explore this series
A Is for Apparition
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 2
H Is for Haunting
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 1
N Is for Nightmare
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 4
S Is for Shudder
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 6
T Is For Terror
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 5
U Is for Unbeliever
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 3
H.A.U.N.T.S. books in chronological order

H Is for Haunting
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 1
A Is for Apparition
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 2
U Is for Unbeliever
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 3
N Is for Nightmare
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 4
T Is For Terror
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 5
S Is for Shudder
by Celia Rees
1998H.A.U.N.T.S., Book 6
Point Horror Unleashed books in order
Explore this seriesThe Celia Rees Supernatural Trilogy books in order
Explore this seriesWitch Child books in order
Explore this seriesCelia Rees collections, short stories, and related book types
Standalone Celia Rees books

Every Step You Take
by Celia Rees
1993
The Bailey Game
by Celia Rees
1994
Soul Taker
by Celia Rees
1997
Ghost Chamber
by Celia Rees
1999
Truth or Dare
by Celia Rees
2000
Pirates!
by Celia Rees
2003
The Wish House
by Celia Rees
2005
The Stone Testament
by Celia Rees
2007
Sovay
by Celia Rees
2008
The Fool's Girl
by Celia Rees
2010
This is Not Forgiveness
by Celia Rees
2011
Glass Town Wars
by Celia Rees
2018
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
by Celia Rees
2020
Author bio
Celia Rees was born in Solihull in the West Midlands and grew up there before going on to study History and Politics at the University of Warwick. That background never really left her. Even when she moved into ghost stories, thrillers, and historical fiction, her books kept circling back to the way people live through fear, conflict, and social pressure.
For many years she taught English in comprehensive schools in Coventry. She has said that teaching teenagers shaped her writing in a very direct way, because she could see exactly which books grabbed them and which ones left them cold.
That mattered.
When she asked students what they actually wanted to read, the answers were simple: danger, action, horror, magic, pirates. Rees listened, and then started writing the kinds of stories they were asking for. Her debut, Every Step You Take, arrived in 1993, and it set the tone for a lot of what followed, tense plotting, young people under pressure, and a strong sense that trouble can break into ordinary life very quickly.
Her early books included sharp contemporary and supernatural stories like The Bailey Game, Midnight Hour, Blood Sinister, and Soul Taker. They are very readable, but they are not soft. Rees was interested in bullying, obsession, family strain, and the way fear changes how teenagers see the world. Even in the horror novels, the emotional problem usually comes first.
History never really left her.
The books many readers know best began with Witch Child, the story of Mary Newbury, a girl fleeing persecution in 1659. Its diary form gives the novel a close, urgent feel, and its sequel, Sorceress, opens the story out across generations. Readers often come to these books for the witch-trial setting, but stay for the questions underneath: who gets called dangerous, who gets believed, and where a young woman can belong if a whole society fears difference.
Rees kept working in the past, but never in the same way twice. Pirates! gives her a chance to write about friendship, slavery, class, and escape on the high seas. Sovay turns to the years around the French Revolution and a heroine pushed into danger and disguise. The Fool's Girl plays with Shakespeare, while Glass Town Wars draws on the Brontës' imagined worlds and folds literary history into speculative adventure.
She has not stayed in one lane. The Wish House and This is Not Forgiveness show her writing contemporary stories where love, guilt, politics, and family tension can feel as unsettling as anything supernatural. Then, after more than twenty books for younger readers, she published her first novel for adults, Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook. That book grew from the discovery of an old family recipe book and turned into a postwar spy story about coded messages, compromised loyalties, and a young teacher trying to reinvent herself.
Her books have been translated into 28 languages, and several have been shortlisted for major children's book prizes in Britain.
Rees lives in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and has divided her time between writing, reviewing, and teaching creative writing. She has also taught on Arvon courses and worked with writers' organisations over the years. What stands out across the whole body of work is not one single genre but a steady interest in brave, cornered young people, and in the thin line between history, myth, and the things that still frighten us now.
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