Frank Tayell Books in Order

Bill Wright breaks his leg on the day the outbreak begins and is left behind when London is evacuated. Trapped in his flat as the city empties and then fills with the undead, he has to decide when hiding is no longer survival.

George Tull and the residents of a retirement home cannot make the march to the coast when Britain's evacuation begins. Abandoned and trapped, George must decide whether to save people he can barely stand or leave behind the woman he loves.

Bill and Kim hear of safety on the Irish coast, but getting there means returning to London for two children first. The rescue mission forces Bill to choose between the family he lost and the one he might still protect.

Distrusting the government's claim that Britain is safe, Nilda stays behind in Penrith with her son Jay. As supplies vanish and the dead close in, she tries to build a community, then keep it alive through betrayal and constant flight.

Bill Wright has escaped London and found temporary safety, but not answers. To uncover who created the virus, he leaves sanctuary behind and heads into an undead wasteland where living survivors can be just as dangerous.

Sixty years after The Great Disaster, three towered cities remain and humanity's first colony ship to Mars is nearly ready. Then two murders threaten the election, the launch, and Constable Ely's chance to keep the last great project on track.

Fifty survivors hold the Tower of London, but strong walls do not solve hunger. A trip west to search abandoned farms brings back more than food, and proves the dead are not the only danger closing in.

The Tower of London is failing, its food is gone, the water is poisoned, and winter is closing in. Besieged by both living and dead enemies, the survivors face a brutal choice about sacrifice, revenge, and where home can still be found.

Nilda crosses radioactive Britain with Chester, chasing the chance that her son Jay is still alive. At the same time Jay and Tuck head south for survivors and medical supplies, only to learn that building a life may be harder than escaping the undead.

Twenty years after an AI-driven apocalypse, rookie officer Ruth Deering joins Dover's Serious Crimes Unit hoping to escape city life. Her first murder case uncovers counterfeiting, political intrigue, and a threat to the democracy survivors have rebuilt.

Trapped in Ireland and waiting for rescue, Bill Wright uses the time to record how Anglesey became a sanctuary for survivors from across the world. The island has power and promise, but it needs supplies, leadership, and luck to stay alive.

A routine homicide leads Officer Ruth Deering into sabotage, fake money, Luddites, and whispers of surviving AIs. Each arrest reveals a bigger plot aimed at pulling Britain's rebuilt democracy apart.

One week after the outbreak, Tom Clemens heads toward Washington hoping to warn the president, but the government is already falling apart. Choked roads, collapsing towns, zombies, and ruthless survivors turn the trip into a brutal race through a dying America.

Tom Clemens is already running from a murderous conspiracy when Manhattan descends into zombie chaos. As America collapses, he hunts for the scientist who might explain the outbreak and discovers the cabal may be tied to it all.

In post-Blackout Britain, Ruth Deering investigates an artist's murder while war spreads across Europe. What starts as a police case reaches far beyond Dover's walls and puts the survival of a fragile democracy at risk.

Bill and Kim are stranded on Ireland's Atlantic coast eight months after the outbreak. Their journey north toward Anglesey becomes a long, dangerous crawl through ruined strongholds, dead-filled roads, and unfinished business from the old world.

Hope still exists on Anglesey, but it has to be earned. Branofski, Chester, Greta, and others push into Wales and the Midlands to find survivors, open routes to safety, and discover that some enemies from the old conspiracy are still alive.

Ten thousand survivors crowd Anglesey while food, fuel, and ammunition dwindle. An election meant to preserve democracy instead deepens fear, suspicion, and impossible promises, just as humanity's last refuge starts to come apart.

Anglesey is no longer the haven it seemed, and the planned move to Belfast is fraying under shortages, bad weather, and hidden enemies. As the fallout from the election spreads, the real threat is still moving in the shadows.

After betrayal and a shattered exodus from Anglesey, scattered survivors try to endure an Irish winter with supplies running out. In Dundalk and beyond, the fight shifts from pure escape to deciding what kind of future is still possible.

Six survivors stranded by a crash in northern France expected a quick run to safety, not a desperate winter trek. With little food, few weapons, and no rescue likely, they face both the undead and isolated people who think they are the last of the old world.

Chester Carson and his companions cross frozen northern France, chasing any route back across the Channel. The odds are grim, but their mission is bigger than survival, they are trying to reach family, friends, and a future worth saving.

Pete Guinn travels to the Australian outback to find his missing sister Corrie, only for Manhattan's outbreak to overturn everything. Quarantined Broken Hill becomes a rough survival hub as siblings, soldiers, and locals face zombies and the cartel hunting Corrie.

A year after nuclear war, Europe's survivors are caught between marching zombie hordes and the Rosewood Cartel. Scattered groups in France, Denmark, and beyond struggle to protect hard-won refuges and carry hope into the darkest stretch yet.

Pete and Corrie help reconnect scattered forces across Canada while Olivia flees the burning Midwest for the woods of Michigan. As armies finally push back against the undead, they learn winning the first war may only open the door to a worse reckoning.

On a frozen archipelago, a few thousand survivors finally have room to breathe after a year of catastrophe. But missing allies, hidden enemies, and rumors of other communities mean peace is fragile and the wider world is not done with them.

Three weeks after the outbreak, Australia is still fighting and conscripting everyone it can as nuclear war looms. Tess Qwong, Anna Dodson, and Dr Avalon race to keep order, expose the truth, and hold on to hope while the lights remain on.

With the reduced United Nations meeting in Canberra, the true scale of global ruin finally comes into view. Tess Qwong follows the trail of those behind the outbreak toward Mozambique and the Atlantic, where the hunt for war criminals becomes a mission into radioactive waters.

A month after the nuclear war, Tess Qwong heads north from the Caribbean following a clue about a community trading safety for oil. The voyage becomes part rescue mission, part ecological survey, as the survivors discover how much of the new world has already been lost.

War has returned to Europe, Calais is under siege, and Dover is feeling the strain. While the front line teeters, Ruth Deering's Serious Crimes Unit hunts corruption in the supply chain and a poisoner turning a grim winter even deadlier.

Spring reaches Nova Scotia, and for the first time extinction does not feel immediate. That hope brings new problems, as supplies run out, rebuilding becomes urgent, and an expedition west looks for other survivors and a future beyond mere endurance.

An 1888 Irish guide, a secret alien presence on Earth, and a tired bookseller in 2022 all get pulled into the same hidden history. What begins as smuggling and curiosity grows into a witty, high-stakes struggle to stop Earth becoming the next battleground in an alien war.

Twenty years after the Blackout, Britain stands between peace and another slide into violence. With arson and terror spreading at home and the war in France frozen in place, the Serious Crimes Unit must crack a dangerous conspiracy before the country tips over.

As Canada prepares a final evacuation and Canberra begins building something new, Bill, Kim, and Sholto go searching for lost communities. Floods, ruins, and hard reunions turn the journey into a reckoning with what remains of America.

Kim and Sholto search the Pacific Northwest for a lasting home while Bill manages the evacuation from Nova Scotia. When assassins strike at pilgrims and a murderer hides among the newcomers, the dream of a better world starts to look dangerously fragile.

Eighteen months after civilisation fell, Eastern Canada's survivors plan a last migration across North America. Jay, Tuck, Sorcha, and others take on scouting, road mapping, and political missions while old enemies and bigger questions about humanity's future crowd in.

Eight weeks after first contact, Earth is already in danger of becoming the spark for a wider interstellar war. Harold, Serene, and Tempest chase mercenaries, missing clues, and an ancient mystery that reaches from Cork to Nineveh.

Bill's evacuation plans are threatened by theft, spies, and another pirate attack. At the same time, Jay and Heppy find a year-old letter from a separated couple, turning a scavenging trip into a stubborn search for survivors who still deserve a chance.

Kim throws herself into rebuilding homes, schools, power, and food while Bill tries to shape government for a community of survivors. But the pirates have followed them west, and the last chance at a better society may have to be defended in war.

Maggs Espoir has spent a year crossing a broken Canada in search of her husband Etienne. As supplies shrink and factions harden, one glimpse of a plane suggests civilisation, and maybe her missing future, might still exist.