James Lovegrove Books in Order

Launched to carry its passengers toward utopia, the enormous ocean liner Hope has spent decades without reaching land. Inside its rusting hull, a million people descend into madness as sinister creatures infest the lower decks.

A mysterious train delivers Jeremiah Rackstraw and his traveling company to the quiet town of Escardy Gap. As their show reveals a destructive purpose, a boy and the mayor search for help against the newcomers.

One day inside the vast Days department store exposes the costs of a society devoted to shopping. Customers, employees, and the ruling family pursue their ambitions within a commercial empire where virtually anything can be bought.

The secretive Guardians suppress dangerous scientific discoveries to protect humanity from itself. A connection between the 1908 Siberian explosion and a Nevada research facility draws them toward a hidden conflict involving forces beyond the human world.

An experiment in a derelict nuclear power station and a Japanese hacker threaten the Guardians from different directions. Scattered across the world, the secret organization must confront divided loyalties and a growing danger within its ranks.

William Ian North possesses enough money to manipulate governments and reshape nations. Beneath his mansion, however, lies the disturbing source of his extraordinary fortune, exposing the hidden price of wealth and the suffering it can conceal.

Masked alien visitors have transformed Earth with Crystech, a miraculous material that sustains a new prosperity. When one is murdered in New Venice, humanity must find the killer before the visitors withdraw their technology and leave.

Az longs to fit into the society of the Airborn, whose members possess wings that he lacks. His inventor father offers a possible answer, raising questions about belonging and the limits of ingenuity in their world.

These speculative stories explore a Britain transformed into a theme park, a parallel London, and unsettling possibilities hidden in everyday life. Across unfamiliar societies and personal mysteries, Lovegrove examines how altered circumstances expose human desires, fears, and vulnerabilities.

Joey places his dying mother in the House of Lazarus, an institution promising to sustain life indefinitely. As its fees become harder to afford, a troubling dream makes him question what he has preserved for her.

After Britain collapses into isolated communities, a London gang abducts women from the village of Downbourne. A schoolmaster journeys through a fractured England to recover his wife, despite the unhappiness of their marriage and her uncertain wishes.

Rock singer Mik Dyer prepares for a final tour concert while obsessive fan Kim Reid pursues a backstage pass. Two interconnected novellas approach the same event from opposite sides, exploring fame, devotion, and their intertwined identities.

Elder Ayn knows the circumstances of his own death but keeps the purpose of his journey from his scribe. Around them, elemental factions edge toward war as the devastating Worldstorm threatens an already fragile social order.

Dan worries when his inventive friend Jason creates glasses that supposedly reveal hidden truths. What begins as another strange idea becomes frightening as the glasses expose things better left unseen, forcing Dan to consider how to intervene.

In a world ruled by wealthy dynasties, rebellious heir Provender Gleed is kidnapped during his family's elaborate ball. Two detectives seek him while a revolutionary and an unexpected romantic connection threaten the future planned for him.

Young warrior Yana must survive a night alone in the frozen territory of Cold Keep. Hunted by Shadow Trolls, she faces a test that could establish her courage, provided she can uncover their secret and return.

Corporal Jonah Hammond leads a military squad composed of corpses revived through nanotechnology. Their apparent usefulness as tireless soldiers becomes a threat when the reanimated men begin thinking independently, undermining the assumptions behind their creation and control.

To settle his father's gambling debt to criminals, Jack is required to murder a stranger. When the moment arrives, he must decide whether protecting his family can justify the terrible act that has been demanded of him.

Taj has used his freerunning skills to carry messages for local gang leader Rogan. When he learns that Rogan intends to kill his father, he has only twenty-three minutes to cross the neighborhood and stop it.

Egyptian gods rule Earth through competing factions, but Freegypt remains outside their control. British soldier David Westwynter encounters the mysterious Lightbringer there and becomes involved in a rebellion determined to free humanity from its divine rulers.

Injured former soldier Gideon Coxall joins the well-paid Valhalla Project, expecting another military assignment. Instead, he finds himself fighting beside Norse gods as an extraordinary winter grips the world and the final battle of Ragnarok approaches.

Former police officer Sam Akehurst joins the Titans, a resistance force equipped with advanced weapons and armored suits. Their mission is to overthrow the Greek gods, whose promised stability has become a decade of oppression for humanity.

Tom Yamada prepares for his confrontation with the Lord of Fire alongside Mai, Akiko, and the Shinobi Ghost army. Recovering the Element Gems may be his only chance to challenge a demon whose power appears insurmountable.

Tom Yamada enters the third duel of the Contest against the Lord of Tears, an opponent distinguished by extraordinary speed. His mission to defend humanity now depends on surviving a fight against a lethally quick demon.

Fifteen-year-old Tom Yamada inherits his family's duty to face five demonic champions in the Contest. Called to fight years before his expected turn, he must confront the massive Lord of the Mountain with humanity's future at stake.

Tom Yamada faces the Lord of the Typhoon, the winged demon responsible for his father's death. With humanity still depending on his success in the Contest, the coming duel combines his inherited duty with a personal desire for revenge.

Tom Yamada continues his unexpectedly early Contest by confronting the Lord of the Void, an armored demon associated with darkness. Having survived his first opponent, the young champion must again risk his life to protect the world.

Sixteen speculative stories follow robots in a world of flesh, travelers exploring alternate dimensions, and a virus transmitted through speech. Other tales confront guilt, violence, and disturbing scientific possibilities, moving between ordinary settings and radically transformed futures.

Captain John Redlaw polices London's marginalized vampire population for SHADE. When unrest inside their ghettos sparks human retaliation, he struggles to maintain peace while political interests advance a drastic solution to the conflict between both communities.

An undefeated Aztec Empire controls the world, but a masked rebel called the Conquistador challenges its rule in London. As apocalypse approaches, he targets the immortal emperor while detective Mal Vaughn pursues him through the city.

John Redlaw travels to America to investigate coordinated attacks on vampire immigrants during a severe winter. The killings suggest trained perpetrators, forcing him to confront a threat beyond ordinary hostility toward the Sunless and their communities.

Amateur detectives Seb and Frankie investigate vicious online bullying after a new girl at their school asks for help. Their unlikely friendship becomes the foundation of a case that challenges them to identify the person behind the attacks.

After terrorists abduct his scientist father, Od Fitch discovers the giant robotic weapon hidden in his research. Bonded to its controls, Od must use Warsuit 1.0 while navigating competing threats from terrorists, government forces, and a dangerous operative.

Three novellas pit ordinary ambitions against divine interference: a lawyer enters Anansi’s contest of trickery, a bullied schoolboy invokes Satan, and an energy magnate encounters an environmentalist. Their choices draw them into dangerous bargains with forces beyond human control.

Retired assassin Lex Dove accepts one final assignment leading an American team into an abandoned Caribbean bunker. Below ground, experiments combining science and voodoo have produced monsters, while a deeper supernatural presence makes their mission increasingly perilous.

Bombings terrorize London in 1890, and Holmes suspects Moriarty's involvement. Meanwhile, an armored vigilante called Baron Cauchemar fights crime with remarkable technology, leaving Holmes and Watson to investigate whether the masked figure is ally or accomplice.

Comics artist Zak Bramwell is taken to a secret island complex to design costumes for superpowered beings modeled on Vishnu's avatars. Their battles appear to protect humanity, but their arrival may signal the approaching end of an age.

Luke Fallon enters the dangerous television competition BetterLife to protect his twin brother Johnny from a cheated gangster. Each successful round promises greater wealth while increasing the risks surrounding both brothers in a society obsessed with luck.

A young man's death beneath Beachy Head interrupts Watson's visit to the retired Holmes in 1913. Conflicting accounts of suicide and ritual markings draw them into an investigation shadowed by a possible cult and the threat of war.

Interstellar agent Dev Harmer awakens in a cloned body on the scorching mining planet Alighieri. He must protect its helium resources from rival artificial intelligences while navigating subterranean hazards, mysterious earthquakes, and a surface hot enough to melt rock.

Holmes travels to Oxford after Professor Quantock claims his mechanical Thinking Engine can rival human deduction. As detective and machine compete to solve crimes, Holmes and Watson discover that the device may pursue objectives beyond its public demonstrations.

Dev Harmer investigates attacks on human settlements on the ocean planet Triton, where rival artificial intelligences may be provoking the native inhabitants. With his engineered body nearing failure, he faces escalating violence and a creature rising from the depths.

Immortal figures from Greek mythology begin dying violent deaths, and Theseus leaves his life as a New York crime novelist to investigate. His search reunites him with other demigods as a killer threatens their supposedly indestructible existence.

Back from Afghanistan in 1880, Watson meets Holmes as apparently healthy Shadwell residents die of starvation. Their investigation follows sinister shadows through London, confronting a drug lord and forces that challenge any ordinary explanation of the deaths.

A scarred Bedlam inmate speaks an unknown language and remembers little of his past. Holmes and Watson trace him to a disastrous Miskatonic expedition, whose attempt to capture a monstrous creature has consequences reaching into London.

When a judge’s daughter disappears, Holmes investigates a religious sect devoted to ancient Greece. Hannah Woolfson enters the Elysians undercover, while Watson fears that her search for a missing friend has placed her in serious danger.

Alien beings known as the Savior Gods rule Earth with overwhelming power. Former soldier Ethan Nash joins the Luminous resistance and leads a team in Florida on a desperate mission to break humanity’s submission to its conquerors.

As members of the Diogenes Club die in apparent suicides, Holmes and Watson confront their longstanding enemy once more. Missing women near their Sussex retreat draw them toward an undersea menace and the culmination of a supernatural conspiracy.

Mrs Hudson asks Holmes to help a landlady suspected of poisoning a lodger recently returned from India. A dying message and Allan Quatermain’s involvement lead Holmes and Watson through a case of revenge, corruption, and apparent sorcery.

Britain’s authoritarian prime minister targets those he considers undesirable. Courier and graffiti artist Ajia Snell finds herself recruited by figures from British legend, joining a resistance whose members include Robin Hood and Oberon against the government’s persecution.

Eve Allerthorpe must prove her sanity to inherit her family’s fortune on her twenty-first birthday. Haunted by her mother’s ghost and a terrifying Christmas figure called Black Thurrick, she turns to Holmes and Watson for help.

Jayne’s former lover asks the Serenity crew to defend a settlement on Thetis from a gang threatening its water supply. The mission becomes personal when he meets her teenage daughter and wonders whether he could be her father.

Years after the Baskerville case, Henry Baskerville’s wife is found on Dartmoor with her blood drained. Holmes and Watson return to investigate another monstrous threat and the possibility that the Stapleton family’s revenge remains unfinished.

A stolen Blue Sun device brings the Serenity crew visions of their deepest desires, which soon become nightmares. With nearly everyone incapacitated and the ship heading toward a moon, River must confront the machine’s dangerous effects.

Twelve Holmes and Watson investigations explore strange deaths, unusual substances, and ingenious revenge. Their cases include a fatal encounter with a bleeding stone, a potion that alters its drinker’s nature, and an additional adventure involving Lovecraftian horrors.

When Inara develops a terminal illness, Mal pursues a rumored cure from a scientist serving a life sentence. The Serenity crew must infiltrate a frozen Alliance prison planet where the inmates survive without ordinary guards or protection.

Holmes and Watson investigate three winter mysteries across Kent, London, and Surrey. A drowned schoolboy, a wealthy man apparently frightened to death, and a mutilated woodland corpse each suggest supernatural causes that Holmes sets out to examine.

An aging Watson records the hidden supernatural history behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes. Investigations involving reanimated bodies, strange machines, and northern horrors lead the pair toward the Mi-Go and their plans for Earth.

Conan vows to protect a boy with shamanic gifts, but a betrayal places the child in the hands of monstrous kidnappers. Joined by the boy’s parents, he ventures into the corrupted Rotlands to confront the powers holding him.