Chronicles Of Kazam Books in Order

The Chronicles Of Kazam, sometimes called the Last Dragonslayer books, are fast‑moving fantasy adventures aimed at younger readers but happily raided by adults. They take place in the Ununited Kingdoms, a patchwork of quarrelling mini‑states that looks a lot like a skewed version of modern Britain.

In this world magic is real but badly run down. Once mighty sorcerers now unblock drains, fold pizza boxes and straighten roads for a living, their power measured in meagre shandies rather than awe‑inspiring feats. Jennifer Strange, a fifteen‑year‑old orphan and indentured assistant, runs Kazam Mystical Arts Management, a creaky employment agency that tries to keep those last working wizards housed, fed and more or less legal.

The Last Dragonslayer throws Jennifer into the middle of a prophecy: the final dragon is fated to die, and the vast stretch of land it occupies will instantly become available for development. Big corporations, ambitious princes and a terrifying wizard named Shandar all have plans for what should happen. Jennifer's job, inconveniently, is to help manage the official Dragonslayer – and then to decide what kind of person she wants to be when the moment comes.

In The Song of the Quarkbeast the stakes shift toward Kazam itself, as rival agency iMagic and a meddling king push the wizards into a high‑profile magical contest. By The Eye of Zoltar, Jennifer is leading a perilous expedition into the Cambrian Empire to find a legendary artefact, juggling a spoiled princess, jeopardy tourism, and a country that seems to run on carefully managed danger.

The final book, The Great Troll War, widens the canvas again as trolls invade and the Ununited Kingdoms all but fall. Holed up on a Cornish peninsula with dragons, misfit sorcerers, Tiger Prawns and a trench full of buttons, Jennifer has to face Shandar's long‑planned bid for ultimate power and decide how far she is willing to go to save her world.

Across the series Fforde keeps the tone jaunty and quick, but the questions underneath are serious: what happens when a vital resource is treated purely as a commodity, and who gets to decide what counts as progress. Jennifer's stubborn decency, the running gags about legal forms and magical health and safety, and the presence of one very unusual Quarkbeast make the books feel both warm and faintly anarchic. If you like quest stories with jokes, this is an inviting place to spend some time.