Josiah Bancroft Books in Order

School headmaster Thomas Senlin loses his wife Marya in the crowds during their honeymoon at the Tower of Babel. To find her, he must ascend its strange stacked kingdoms, surviving deception, violence and societies far beyond his bookish expectations.

Searching for his missing wife, Senlin and his companions survive as pirates aboard a stolen airship. Unable to reenter the Tower easily, they seek the mysterious Sphinx's help, discovering that its price may endanger their freedom and loyalties.

The Sphinx separates Senlin and his crew, sending them into the Tower's tangled conspiracies. While Senlin investigates unrest in Pelphia, enslaved hods whisper about a mysterious leader whose identity could reshape the conflicts engulfing them all.

Marat's siege engine tears through the Tower while Senlin attempts to sabotage it from within. Edith's crew faces a transformed Voleta, and Adam uncovers secrets at the summit, as the Tower's hidden ambitions threaten to change everyone's future.

Short works return to the Tower of Babel through familiar inhabitants and new arrivals. Bureaucratic mazes, airship races, desperate bargains, and unexpected stowaways reveal further corners of the world beyond the events of the novels.

Magical investigators Iz and Warren Wilby receive an extraordinary royal case: a king determined to be baked into a cake. Their inquiry uncovers decades of concealed history, drawing them into dangerous encounters with political enemies and supernatural powers.

Forty-five poems written over a decade bring surreal images into contact with ordinary experience. Through shifting voices and unexpected encounters, Bancroft explores wonder, the strangeness of existence, and the absurdities that accompany everyday attempts to make sense of life.

A famous artist’s suspicious death leads Isolde and Warren Wilby into a murder investigation whose evidence refuses to stay fixed. As magical laws begin breaking down, their search threatens to change the ordinary world along with the uncanny.