Douglas Bond Books in Order

Mr. Pipes takes Annie and Drew deeper into church history as they explore Reformation psalmody and hymn writing. The book blends travel, conversation, and short historical portraits, all with an eye on how Christians sing and why it matters.

Stuck in England for the summer, Annie and Drew meet the village organist everyone calls Mr. Pipes. Through outings and stories, he leads them into the lives of British hymn writers and a deeper sense of worship.

Mr. Pipes crosses the Atlantic for more adventures with Annie and Drew, using travel and conversation to introduce American hymn writers and their world. It keeps the series' blend of story, church history, and musical curiosity.

Young Duncan M'Kethe hates the dragoons who brutalize his people, but his father's teaching will not let him rest in hatred. As he tries to rescue his father, he must decide what loving an enemy could possibly mean in wartime.

Angus M'Kethe, shepherd and archer, is pulled into clan danger when a mysterious killing threatens everything his family depends on. Bond mixes Highland atmosphere, suspense, and moral pressure as the stakes rise far beyond one crime.

The M'Kethe family keeps standing for Crown and Covenant even as persecution drives them toward exile. This final volume raises the cost of faithfulness, forcing hard sacrifices about home, inheritance, and what they can carry into a new life.

Annie and Drew join Mr. Pipes on a European trip that opens into the hymn singing and struggles of the early church. Travel mishaps, new friendships, and old stories make this a gentle adventure with plenty of history tucked inside.

When an English schoolboy discovers an old Latin text, the story opens into third-century Roman Britain on the edge of the empire. Roman officer Rusticus and his Celt friend Calum must navigate loyalty, honor, and danger along the northern frontier.

In colonial Connecticut, Ian M'Kethe is still worrying about school, chores, and friends when war with the French and their Indian allies closes in. His friendship with Watookoog deepens the adventure and complicates every easy answer about loyalty.

The first Fathers and Sons volume lays out Bond's call to manliness, truthfulness, and steady Christian character. Built for discussion as much as reading, it moves through everyday issues like family, worship, discipline, leadership, and self-control.

While traveling to college, Ian M'Kethe reads letters from his cousin Gavin, who has been pulled into the Jacobite rising of 1745. The result is a story of divided loyalties, battlefield danger, and the long reach of Scotland's troubles.

This father-and-son guide speaks plainly about living faithfully in a culture Bond sees as confused and hostile. With discussion material and concrete topics, it aims to help young men think biblically about leadership, work, family, and public life.

John Calvin's life is told through the bitter eyes of Jean-Louis Mourin, a childhood rival whose envy grows into sabotage and treachery. That angle gives this Reformation novel both sharp tension and a close look at Calvin's ideas and character.

The American Revolution sweeps Sandy M'Kethe from land battles into high-risk service with Salem Poor and John Paul Jones. It is a lively mix of soldiers, sailors, and hard choices about liberty, providence, and what kind of courage war requires.

This short biography focuses on the surprise at the center of Knox's life: a man often sick, fearful, and physically weak who still became a fearless preacher. Bond keeps the story brisk and practical without losing the history.

Cynwulf, shunned as both Saxon and Viking, becomes the chief suspect when his battleaxe turns up in a murdered man's skull. To survive Anglo-Saxon justice, he must clear his name in a world that already expects the worst from him.

Told through the eyes of a young student, this biographical novel follows John Knox through siege, slavery, exile, and fierce preaching in Scotland. It shows both the danger around him and the spiritual force that made him impossible to ignore.

This concise profile looks at Isaac Watts as poet, pastor, and hymn writer, not just a familiar name in a hymnal. Bond pays special attention to the craft and theology that made Watts's songs endure.

This short biography introduces the fiery Florentine preacher who attacked corruption, challenged powerful rulers, and died for it. Bond sketches Savonarola as a complicated forerunner to later reformers, set against the politics and religion of Renaissance Florence.

This picture-book poem retells Job's suffering, endurance, and encounter with God in language young readers can follow. It offers a gentle way into a hard biblical story without losing the weight of what Job must face.

Philippe, an orphan apprenticed to a shipwright in sixteenth-century France, is drawn toward the Huguenots just as persecution turns savage. Friendship, fear, and mounting civil war force him to choose where his loyalty truly lies.

Bond's brief life of Augustus Toplady follows the Anglican pastor and hymn writer best known for Rock of Ages. It highlights a short, intense ministry shaped by grace, controversy, ill health, and a lasting gift for devotional language.

Set during the Puget Sound Indian War of 1855 to 1856, this novel follows the human cost of the fighting around the tiny settlement of Seattle. Bond tells the clash from more than one side, keeping the history personal, local, and tragic.

After surviving the Battle of Crecy, Hugh West'all lands at Oxford and falls in with John Wycliffe's dangerous effort to put Scripture into English. Medieval politics, plague, and church corruption close in as the work becomes riskier by the day.

In the trenches of World War I, Nigel Hopkins serves under a young, still-atheist C.S. Lewis. Mud, shellfire, and long arguments about God give this novel both battlefield grit and a searching spiritual edge.

Katharina von Bora secretly records her escape from convent life, her marriage to Martin Luther, and the joys and griefs that shaped their home. Bond turns a famous Reformer into a husband, father, and very human partner in an unusual love story.

A crippled B-17 goes down over occupied France in 1944, throwing pilot Eli Evans and navigator Charlie Tucker into a maze of Resistance fighters, spies, and double agents. Fast-moving and tense, it mixes wartime suspense with questions of faith, courage, and loyalty.

Seen through the eyes of rogue friend Harry Wylie, this novel follows John Bunyan from wild youth to troubled convert, bold preacher, and prisoner. It is a vivid story of conscience, grace, and the making of the man behind Pilgrim's Progress.