Graham Joyce Books in Order
Explore Graham Joyce's books in order, with short plot summaries and a guide to his novels to help you find a first read or choose your next story.
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Graham Joyce books in publication order
22 books
Dreamside
by Graham Joyce
1991
Years after a college experiment in lucid dreaming, four former participants find their shared dream world returning. Lee and his old friends must confront what happened there before the dreams of their youth consume their waking lives.
Dark Sister
by Graham Joyce
1992
Maggie discovers an old diary hidden in her family's Victorian house and begins exploring its witchcraft. As her marriage deteriorates and her son's behaviour grows disturbing, the book's powers offer independence while exposing her family to danger.
House of Lost Dreams
by Graham Joyce
1993
Mike and Kim abandon their jobs for a new life in a Greek coastal village. Their rented beach house seems idyllic, but strange manifestations and an unseen watcher threaten both their freedom and their relationship.
Requiem
by Graham Joyce
1995
Grieving his wife's death, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem, where visions of an old woman deepen his unease. Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls suggest a connection between his personal loss and a hidden religious history.
The Tooth Fairy
by Graham Joyce
1996
Seven-year-old Sam discovers a disturbing Tooth Fairy after leaving a tooth beneath his pillow. As he and his friends grow up in the English Midlands, the creature's shifting moods complicate the ordinary dangers and desires of adolescence.
The Stormwatcher
by Graham Joyce
1998
A group of British friends shares a holiday in the French countryside, where resentments and secrets gradually fracture their relationships. A child's conversations with an unseen instructor introduce another uncertainty as the weather and emotional atmosphere turn threatening.
Indigo
by Graham Joyce
1999
Jack Chambers inherits a manuscript claiming to explain invisibility and instructions to find his estranged father's beneficiary. Reuniting with his half-sister, he enters a secretive circle obsessed with a colour that promises power and threatens madness.
Leningrad Nights
by Graham Joyce
1999
During the siege of Leningrad, a young boy takes responsibility for a prostitute's newborn child. Amid hunger, destruction, and desperate survival, he must discover how far he can go to protect the fragile lives around him.
Smoking Poppy
by Graham Joyce
2001
Dan Innes learns that his estranged daughter faces a possible death sentence for drug smuggling in Thailand. His attempt to rescue her leads beyond the prison into remote opium-growing mountains, where tracing her journey brings fresh dangers.
The Facts of Life
by Graham Joyce
2002
In postwar Coventry, Martha Vine and her daughters share responsibility for raising young Frank. Psychic gifts inherited through the family complicate his childhood, while the women navigate the war's aftermath and their differing ideas about his future.
Partial Eclipse and Other Stories
by Graham Joyce
2003
Stories and novellas move from besieged Leningrad to English coal mines and Greek islands. Strange encounters, adolescent fears, and unsettling dreams draw ordinary people toward experiences that blur the boundaries between reality, desire, and the impossible.
T.W.O.C.
by Graham Joyce
2005
Matt cannot fully remember the joyriding accident that killed his brother and scarred his brother's girlfriend. Determined to reconstruct the events, he confronts guilt and troubling gaps in his memory while risking another encounter with the tragedy.
The Limits of Enchantment
by Graham Joyce
2005
In rural England in 1966, Fern Cullen learns midwifery and unconventional wisdom from Mammy. A patient's death turns the village against them, pushing Fern toward outsiders as she struggles to defend Mammy and understand her own powers.
Do The Creepy Thing / The Exchange
by Graham Joyce
2006
Caz and Lucy break into houses for the thrill of approaching sleeping strangers. When an elderly woman fastens a silver bracelet onto Caz, the dare leaves her with unwanted visions of other people's hidden lives.
How to Make Friends with Demons
by Graham Joyce
2008
William Heaney can see demons lurking around vulnerable people, while his family and working life unravel. Encounters with a troubled veteran, a mysterious woman, and an old acquaintance draw him back toward a troubling occult past.
Memoirs of a Master Forger
by Graham Joyce
2008
Book forger William Heaney sees demons feeding on human guilt and suffering, donating his illicit earnings to a homeless shelter. New encounters unsettle his precarious life and force him to revisit the occult experiment behind his haunting.
Three Ways to Snog an Alien
by Graham Joyce
2008
A teenager begins to suspect his new girlfriend is an alien because of her unusual behaviour, intelligence, and parents. An online contact claims Earth has been infiltrated, turning romantic uncertainty into fears about what she wants from him.
The Devil's Ladder
by Graham Joyce
2009
Sophie and James attend neighbouring schools but share the rare ability to see spirits and demons. A plea from someone long dead brings them together, and their effort to free a trapped spirit exposes both to danger.
The Silent Land
by Graham Joyce
2010
Jake and Zoe survive an avalanche in the French Pyrenees and return to a deserted village. With communication cut off and increasingly strange events around them, the married couple struggles to understand their isolation and find an escape.
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
by Graham Joyce
2012
Twenty years after disappearing into the woods, Tara returns to her family looking barely older. Her account of the missing years strains belief, forcing her brother Peter and those she left behind to confront unsettling possibilities.
The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit / The Year of the Ladybird
by Graham Joyce
2013
Student David takes a summer job at an English holiday resort where his father disappeared years earlier. During the hot summer of 1976, eerie visions, racial tensions, and a dangerous love triangle complicate his search for answers.
25 Years in the Word Mines
by Graham Joyce
2014
Short stories drawn from twenty-five years of Joyce’s writing explore Greek islands, English mining communities, Norfolk’s lonely coast, and wartime Leningrad. The characters face unsettling encounters and extraordinary threats, with author commentaries accompanying their journeys.
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