Garry Douglas Kilworth Books in Order

More than four centuries after birdlike aliens subjugate Earth, the remaining humans consider rebellion. The fight for freedom is complicated by fear, compromise, and the uncertain moral cost of resistance.

Humans raised from frozen embryos live on an alien world shaped by an Islamic-influenced culture. As they seek to understand their origins, questions of identity and purpose become impossible to avoid.

A contemporary man is thrown through time and trapped in the mind of a Cro-Magnon human. Survival becomes more than a physical problem when he must live inside another body and another age.

A science-fiction novel that uses contact with alien life to examine human behavior and belief. Kilworth turns a futuristic conflict into a tense question of identity, power, and what people owe one another.

In an ice-enclosed city cut off from the wider world, failing computers disrupt a carefully managed society. One isolated protagonist must question what is real, what is controlled, and what human life means there.

An early collection of Kilworth's speculative short stories. These tales move through science fiction and fantasy, finding unease and wonder in altered worlds, strange encounters, and unexpected turns of mind.

Connor MacLeod survives a fatal wound in sixteenth-century Scotland and learns he is immortal. Centuries later in New York, he faces the Kurgan in the final battle for the Prize.

A realistic, landscape-driven novel with autobiographical elements. Kilworth explores memory, place, and the complicated ties that draw people back to the country and stories that formed them.

A young reader's fantasy set in the strange realm of Woodworld. Magic and adventure lead its characters into a place where courage, curiosity, and the help of unlikely companions all matter.

A dark speculative novel about people left behind in a damaged world. Kilworth combines a harsh setting with questions of endurance, hope, and what remains of human connection after collapse.

In an enclosed science-fiction setting, brothers are forced to confront both their environment and one another. Kilworth uses the strange world of Cloudrock to explore kinship, pressure, and survival.

A landscape-driven novel set against the pull of South Arabian deserts and old myths. Its characters confront the power of place, memory, and the stories people tell to explain their lives.

A young adult fantasy voyage carries its characters into unfamiliar waters and dangerous discoveries. The journey tests courage and friendship as the Vigilance sails toward secrets that cannot stay hidden.

A collection of short fiction that ranges across realistic and imaginative territory. Kilworth's stories bring together travel, memory, oddity, and the sudden moments when a familiar life becomes something else.

In this animal fantasy, foxes confront the dangers of their world through instinct, loyalty, and courage. It is the United States title for *Hunter's Moon*, a story of survival told from a fox-centered view.

A collection of stories from the otherworld, where familiar places tilt toward the strange. Kilworth fills these tales with ghosts, unsettling transformations, and encounters that linger after the final page.

An animal-centered fantasy about wolves living under the hard rules of their wild world. Survival, leadership, and loyalty matter as danger closes in from beyond the pack.

A ghost story for younger readers, built around a troubling presence connected with rain and memory. The mystery grows as its young characters realize that the past has not finished with them.

In nineteenth-century Hampshire, Jem learns the old craft of meadow irrigation from a master drowner. After tragedy strikes, a ghostly helper and a threatened community force him to master the waters himself.

A young adult fantasy adventure in which dragons and old dangers reshape an ordinary life. Kilworth balances magical discovery with the pressure of making brave choices before it is too late.

An animal fantasy centered on hares, their survival, and the dangers of a harsh natural world. Kilworth gives the creatures their own loyalties, fears, and urgent reasons to keep moving.

A novel shaped by the atmosphere and landscape of South Arabia. Kilworth explores travel, memory, and the pull of myth in a story where place itself becomes a powerful presence.

After a series of deadly fires in San Francisco, detectives Dave Peters and Danny Spitz discover the arsonist may be an angel hunting demons. Human lives are caught in the merciless crossfire of a holy mission.

Billy Pink sets out to solve a mystery with the confidence of a private detective and the resources of a young person in over his head. The case brings humor, danger, and plenty of unexpected clues.

A collection of fantasy and science-fiction stories with a taste for the bizarre. Kilworth introduces unusual bodies, unsettling worlds, and characters whose ordinary assumptions do not survive the encounter.

A demon roams London while an archangel arrives with destructive divine power. Detectives Dave Peters and Danny Spitz are pulled into biblical horrors that make ordinary police work seem painfully inadequate.

In 2061, orphaned Hotwire and Blindboy survive by scavenging electronics from a city dump. Their unusual talents attract the criminal Mouseman, forcing them to fight for freedom and a chance at a home.

The adults of the Highland village of Canlish follow a phantom piper into the hills, leaving the children behind. When two sinister strangers arrive, the children must uncover the music that can bring their parents back.

In a world seen from the perspective of small creatures, separate tribes struggle for safety and power. The story turns a hidden society into an adventure about survival, territory, and uneasy alliances.

A story shaped by the world and imagination of the Brontë sisters. Kilworth brings young readers close to family bonds, creative ambition, and the intense landscapes that fed the sisters' writing.

A darkly comic fantasy reworks the dreamlike confusion of Shakespeare's midsummer world. Magic, mischief, and shifting loyalties leave its young characters struggling to tell enchantment from danger.

Hotwire and Blindboy create rubbish-eating cybercats to clean their future city. When Mouseman hijacks the robots for criminal ends, the pair must stop an army of machines built from their own invention.

A young adult adventure about facing a dangerous group known as the Raiders. Kilworth builds suspense around courage, friendship, and the moment ordinary young people must decide whether to stand their ground.

A gargoyle brings an old, eerie force into the lives of young characters who are not ready for it. Kilworth mixes suspense, fantasy, and the unsettling question of what a stone watcher remembers.

Kieto believes he is destined to conquer the Land of Mists, but first he must learn its peoples, weapons, beliefs, and ways of war. Navigation, survival, and angry gods complicate every ambition.

The voyager Kupe crosses the ocean in pursuit of a great octopus and reaches the Land of Mists. Back on Raiatea, a king's death and a contested succession draw people and gods into conflict.

In human-empty Welkin, Sylver and a band of outlaw weasels live under vicious stoat rule. Their bold plan is to find the vanished humans and bring them home before the land's troubles overwhelm everyone.

Sylver's search for the vanished humans leads his weasel band to a ruined castle in Darkmoor. Flood risk, rat armies, and a bitter war between red and grey squirrels make every step harder.

Heavenly hosts and Hell United collide in a comic supernatural adventure. Kilworth brings angels, demons, and youthful troublemakers together in a fast-moving battle where nobody's side is as simple as it first appears.

Sergeant “Fancy Jack” Crossman arrives in the Crimean War with the Connaught Rangers, known as the Devil's Own. A covert mission puts him and his irregular company at the heart of a brutal campaign.

A young drummer is drawn into an adventure where music, danger, and growing up collide. Kilworth gives the story a strong sense of suspense while keeping its focus on a child's choices.

A mysterious fox and the light it carries lead into a fantasy adventure full of hidden dangers. The story follows young characters as they learn that curiosity can open doors they cannot easily close.

Sergeant Jack Crossman witnesses the carnage surrounding the Battle of Balaclava. Amid confused orders and reckless courage, he must keep his men alive while the war exposes the cost of command.

Being the new kid is difficult enough before the oddities begin. This young adult story turns a familiar school problem into a tense, funny, and unsettling adventure about finding your footing.

Kieto prepares to lead Polynesian warriors against the peoples of the Land of Mists. As the fleet sets out, storms, magic, grief, and warnings from Seumas challenge his belief that conquest is destiny.

A fantasy adventure with a young hero drawn into a world of danger and strange possibility. Kilworth combines humor, mythic threats, and a quest that asks its characters to grow quickly.

As the Crimean War worsens, Sergeant Jack Crossman is sent to disrupt Russian supply lines. The mission is dangerous enough, but hunger, weather, and failing conditions test every member of his force.

A young adult story with an icy, unsettling atmosphere and a boy at its center. Kilworth uses mystery and danger to explore isolation, courage, and the things people keep hidden from one another.

Montagu Sylver is now a detective, but city life is no quieter than outlaw life. A disappearance and a looming explosive scheme send the weasel sleuth into another comic, fast-moving case.

A wounded knight wakes with no past, only a memory of a battle that should not have happened. In Zamerkand, Soldier joins the Red Pavilions and begins a dangerous search for truth and identity.

School becomes very different when monsters are part of the lesson plan. This humorous young reader's adventure finds its characters dealing with strange classmates, comic scares, and problems no ordinary teacher expects.

A dark young adult fantasy in which danger arrives with the night and old powers refuse to remain quiet. Kilworth builds an eerie quest around fear, courage, and the cost of learning the truth.

A young person must make sense of war, family, and an inheritance shaped by a soldier's life. This is a tense coming-of-age story about loyalty and the difficult weight of the past.

Jack falls into Faerieland with trouble close behind him. Trolls, goblins, and giants want something from him, and his best possible ally may be Spiggot, a dreamy young boggart.

After Inkerman, Sergeant Jack Crossman and his comrades endure the bitter Crimean winter with too little food, clothing, or shelter. A dangerous mission against a Russian fort offers no easy escape from the misery.

In troubled Zamerkand, Soldier and the Red Pavilions face enemies within the kingdom as well as dangers at its borders. His growing influence makes him useful to some people and threatening to others.

During the Crimean War, Sergeant Jack Crossman faces the grim realities of siege warfare. Orders, mud, blood, and the lives of ordinary soldiers weigh heavily as an assault on the redan approaches.

Detective Montagu Sylver travels east to recover the stolen jade shoes of the Green Idol of Ommm. Steamships, deserts, mountain routes, and old enemies make the case far more dangerous than expected.

Jack's adventures in Faerieland continue as he faces giants and new dangers in a place where even allies can be hard to read. The road toward home grows more tangled with every strange encounter.

Soldier commands the Red Pavilions outside Zamerkand, now ruled by the usurper Humbold. When his sword is reunited with its scabbard, the returning memories reveal betrayal, bloodshed, and an ancient enemy.

Mallmoc's iron land-ship is cutting a destructive path through Faerieland. Jack and his unlikely allies must face giants, magic, and a growing threat to the world he still hopes to escape.

Sergeant Jack Crossman enters another dangerous military assignment where blade work, battlefield judgment, and loyalty all matter. The pressures of war expose old rivalries and force soldiers to choose whom they can trust.

A playful collection of tall tales and short fiction. Kilworth mixes comic exaggeration, strange adventures, and memorable characters in stories that enjoy taking a sharp turn away from the expected.

A young adult fantasy adventure in which a mysterious silver claw pulls its characters toward danger. Kilworth blends an eerie quest with the hard choices that come when an old power will not stay buried.

Three children enter the trapdoor of their family attic and find a continent-sized world of discarded things. To save a life and recover something precious, they must cross strange landscapes and outwit its unsettling inhabitants.

History professor James Sanders searches the world for the scattered hide of a fantastical creature. With his two sons, he discovers wonders and dangers that lead to a tropical island threatened by the rising sea.

Sergeant Jack Crossman returns for a military adventure shaped by divided loyalties and unreliable authority. In wartime, an officer gone rogue can be as dangerous as the enemy across the field.

Sergeant Jack Crossman faces another hard campaign in a historical military adventure. His survival depends on practical courage, unreliable allies, and the ability to see through the ambitions of officers and enemies alike.

Jack, Annie, and Davey travel back in time to Prague after their parents are arrested as spies and alchemists. Separated in a city of magic and danger, they must find one another and a way home.

In 1879 South Africa, Ensign Sebastian Early becomes provost marshal after a friend's death. A locked-room shooting that looks like suicide draws him into murder, military secrets, and the terrible events around Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.

At Landman's Drift in 1879, Ensign Sebastian Early investigates an unidentified officer's hurried burial after a supposed hunting accident. The evidence points to an illegal duel, and possibly murder, amid the dangers of the Zulu War.

A collection of speculative short fiction, bringing together strange worlds, unsettling encounters, and offbeat human dilemmas. These stories show Kilworth moving easily between science fiction, fantasy, and the uncanny.

Weasel detective Montagu Sylver heads to Slattland to stop the vampire problem spreading through Muggidrear. With old enemies and fresh disasters closing in, he needs every bit of nerve and detective skill he has.

Sylver and his outlaw weasels sail in search of Welkin's vanished humans. Stoat pursuers and a shipload of treasure-hunting rats turn their voyage into a risky race across dangerous waters.

A reflective story collection or memoir-like work built around memory, imagination, and everyday places made strange. Kilworth looks back with humor and affection at the people and scenes that stay with us.

A memoir of travel, work, and writing from a novelist whose childhood and careers took him across the world. Kilworth reflects on the places, encounters, and detours that fed his life as a storyteller.

A fox-centered animal fantasy about survival in a dangerous natural world. Kilworth follows the bonds, fears, and hard choices that shape a fox's life when every journey may lead to a hunter.

A travel memoir about taking to the road as a novice motorcyclist in Australia. Kilworth combines practical misadventure, wide landscapes, and the unpredictable pleasures of going somewhere unfamiliar.

A collection of short fiction that brings together imaginative tales from across Kilworth's career. Expect strange creatures, uneasy transformations, and characters meeting realities that refuse to stay ordinary.

The Peters family moves to Bloodstone Street, where the new tarmac seems to cry, bubble, and hunger. As the road turns malevolent, an ordinary suburban estate becomes a terrifying trap for everyone who lives there.

After losing his wife and child, Steven Roberts finds companionship with the quiet homeless people who move into his home. A devastating night pushes him into a painful search for forgiveness, connection, and a way back to life.

In 1870, young telegrapher Alex McKenzie joins the dangerous effort to build the Overland Telegraph across Australia. His hopes for progress and a future with Sally are threatened by wilderness, hardship, and enemies who want him dead.

A career-spanning selection of Garry Kilworth's short fiction. The collection offers a compact route into his science fiction, fantasy, horror, humor, and interest in people caught off guard by the strange.

James Ovit's dull life is overturned when ruthless scientists send him through time and space. As love, tragedy, and bizarre assignments reshape him, he discovers that following orders has never been his strong suit.

A poetry collection looking back on rural childhood in the 1950s. Kilworth captures remembered people, places, small pleasures, and the sharp details that make a vanished everyday world feel close again.

Wrongly accused of murdering his father, Osric flees his homeland and vows to return. His path leads through an Anglo-Saxon world where gods meddle in mortal lives and vengeance has a dangerous price.

Giants can be found in forests, oceans, and unexpected corners of the world. This imaginative fantasy follows the strange possibilities that open when enormous old stories step into everyday life.