Claire North Books in Order

In a distant future empire called the Shine, Maw is born into crushing debt and accidentally turned into an immortal monster rather than a starship pilot. When a double supernova threatens whole systems, he is swept into refugee caravans and slow moving galactic politics that stretch over decades.([washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/31/new-scifi-novels-sunward-memetics/?utm_source=openai))

Years later, a ragged beggar comes to the palace and Penelope recognises the husband who left her decades before. As Odysseus plots bloody revenge on the suitors and civil war looms, Penelope and her council of women must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to save Ithaca.([hachettebookgroup.com](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claire-north/the-last-song-of-penelope/9780316668873/?utm_source=openai))

Peace on Ithaca shatters when Orestes and Elektra arrive, bringing the blood of their murdered mother and the interest of Menelaus, king of Sparta. With Aphrodite watching, Penelope tries to protect her people as old grudges, furies and ambitious kings threaten to drag the island into another war.([hachettebookgroup.com](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claire-north/house-of-odysseus/9780316668835/?utm_source=openai))

On the island of Ithaca, with Odysseus long absent after the Trojan War, Penelope quietly rules a kingdom of women, boys and old men while fending off predatory suitors. Narrated by Hera, the story follows her political maneuvers, secret alliances and small acts of defiance that keep the island alive.([theaureview.com](https://www.theaureview.com/books/book-review-claire-north-ithaca/?utm_source=openai))

Ven Marzouki used to be a priest charged with translating forbidden texts from the drowned, fossil fuel burning past. Now recruited by an ambitious political movement, he must sift dangerous knowledge from ancient archives while deciding whether to defend his fragile green world or help remake it.([hachettebookgroup.com](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claire-north/notes-from-the-burning-age/9780316498852/?utm_source=openai))

In a near future England, Harmony buys tiny upgrades to the nanotech in her bloodstream, trading monthly payments for better looks, health and career prospects. As debt mounts and the nanos begin to shut down, she will risk everything for just one more improvement.([hachettebookgroup.com](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claire-north/sweet-harmony/9781549186240/?utm_source=openai))

After a doctor fails to intervene when a Black boy is lynched in 1880s South Africa, the boy's mother curses him. A relentless shadow now walks toward William Abbey, forcing him to speak the truth about everyone he meets and killing the person he loves most if it ever catches up.([historicalnovelsociety.org](https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-pursuit-of-william-abbey/?utm_source=openai))

In a corporate ruled England where every crime carries a price tag, Theo Miller works at the Criminal Audit Office, calculating what a human life is worth. When a woman from his past is murdered and her child goes missing, he turns against the system he once helped enforce.([kirkusreviews.com](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claire-north/84k/?utm_source=openai))

Charlie agrees to become the Harbinger of Death, a mild mannered man who visits people, communities and cultures shortly before their end. His journeys around the world reveal kindness, cruelty and creeping catastrophe, and he starts to question what it means to do Death's work well.([kirkusreviews.com](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claire-north/the-end-of-the-day/?utm_source=openai))

Hope Arden is unforgettable to herself but forgettable to everyone else, erased from memory moments after they look away. She survives as a jewel thief until a deadly self improvement app called Perfection pulls her into a high stakes heist and a fight over who gets to define a perfect life.([debbish.com](https://www.debbish.com/books-literature/the-sudden-appearance-of-hope-by-claire-north/?utm_source=openai))

Left for dead in an alley, Kepler survives by instinctively leaping into the attacker's body and discovering they can move from host to host with a touch. After one beloved host is assassinated, Kepler hunts the people trying to exterminate beings like them and questions what it means to borrow someone else's life.([sffworld.com](https://www.sffworld.com/2015/02/touch-by-claire-north/?utm_source=openai))

Remy Burke wakes in 1930s Bangkok with a brutal hangover and terrible news, he has gambled twenty years of his life on a game of hide and seek played across Thailand. Hunted by opponents and watched by the Gameshouse, he must stay hidden long enough to win back his future.([espressococo.com](https://espressococo.com/2019/06/06/the-gameshouse-claire-north/?utm_source=openai))

In 17th century Venice, Thene is drawn through a silver door into the higher league of the Gameshouse, where players move real people as pieces on a city sized board. Her first game of kings will decide who rules the city, and losing could cost her far more than money.([espressococo.com](https://espressococo.com/2019/06/06/the-gameshouse-claire-north/?utm_source=openai))

Years after the earlier games, rival players challenge each other for control of the Gameshouse itself. Their contest turns the entire world into a board, drawing in spymasters, politicians and ordinary strangers while a quiet figure in white waits to see who will outplay everyone else.([kirkusreviews.com](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claire-north/the-gameshouse/?utm_source=openai))

Harry August is born in 1919, dies in 1989, and is reborn back at the same moment with every memory intact. When fellow reincarnators pass him a message that the world is ending earlier in each life, Harry must uncover who is tampering with history.([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August?utm_source=openai))