Terry Deary Books in Order

Seven children face a new history teacher and a frantic journey through the centuries in this comic stage play. Built for performance as well as reading, it turns a millennium of history into fast scenes, jokes, and historical chaos.

A quiz-packed romp through a thousand years of history, mixing questions, answers, and the series’ favorite foul facts. Readers can test themselves on rulers, wars, inventions, disasters, and the strange details that school lessons often skip.

A child-focused guide to the Stone Age that considers early humans, Neanderthals, archaeology, cave art, mummies, and Stonehenge. It uses offbeat facts and quizzes to show how evidence from prehistoric life is discovered and interpreted.

Real disaster accounts examine how people respond when lives are suddenly at risk. Stories include a deadly act of revenge, a catastrophe at sea and an avoidable train crash, exploring both courage and failure under pressure.

An illustrated history of World War II that follows wartime experiences on the home front and in combat, from Britain’s Dad’s Army to young people defending Berlin. Striking true details convey how widely the conflict affected civilians and soldiers.

A seasonal history book that explores Christmas food, customs, carols, traditions, and celebrations from different times. Alongside festive facts, it gathers eerie stories, unusual historical practices, and disasters connected with the holiday.

This quiz book draws on the Horrible Histories series, inviting readers to test their knowledge of a millennium of history. Its questions and answers turn the series’ historical subjects into a challenge for curious readers.

This freestanding flip quiz challenges children to investigate how things work, either alone or with a friend. Questions turn scientific knowledge into a game, using the Spark Files format to encourage learning through play.

Ireland's history is explored through famines, sieges, rebellions and the people caught in them. Alongside the grim events, jokes, games and Irish curses offer an illustrated introduction to the country's past for young readers.

The Time Detectives investigate the mystery surrounding King Arthur's bones. Their search focuses on gathering historical clues and weighing evidence, inviting young readers to consider what can be established about a famous figure from Britain's past.

Characters from the Spark Files guide children through a quiz about the human body. Cartoons, multiple-choice questions, speed tests and hidden-answer rounds let readers test their knowledge while learning through a format designed for play.

The Time Detectives investigate the disappearance of the princes in the Tower. Historical clues and evidence guide their search, while their own adventure becomes tangled with danger inside the tower they have come to explore.

Jud receives football boots from her father's magic hat and wonders whether they really have special powers. When her team falls behind and its star player is injured, she gets a chance to test them.

This introduction to the Incan Empire looks at its people, customs, rulers, and religion, including the empire’s vast reach and its conquest by Spanish invaders. Quizzes and macabre historical details accompany the account of everyday life and sacred traditions.

The Time Detectives encounter pirates in their own High Street and investigate what piracy is really like. Their adventure connects local discoveries with historical evidence, exploring a practice that stretches from Roman times into the present.

This science quiz brings back characters from the Spark Files in a format children can use while playing. Cartoons, multiple-choice questions, speed tests and hidden-answer rounds provide different ways to test and build scientific knowledge.

Reports of spells and curses in Duckpool lead the Time Detectives to investigate Nightmare Avenue. The young team gathers clues to discover whether a witch really lives there, connecting its adventure with questions about the past.

Spark Files characters introduce a mathematics quiz designed for children to learn through play. Cartoons, multiple-choice questions, speed tests and hidden-answer rounds offer varied challenges, turning practice into a game readers can work through.

Friends calling themselves the Pitt Street Pirates plan to search their local park's lakes for treasure. Trouble with their boat puts the expedition at risk, while rival rich children threaten to reach the gold first.

This quiz book tests readers on the stranger sides of ancient civilizations. Questions cover Greek doctors, Mesopotamian rulers, Egyptian grave robbers, Roman emperors and Mayan families, turning historical customs and cruelty into a challenge for curious readers.

This illustrated history explores the unpleasant and unusual sides of America's past. It moves from the Pilgrims to the Revolution and the frontier, including the Boston Tea Party and conflicts between cowboys and sheep farmers.

A comic, fact-filled history of the British Empire, tracing how it expanded across the world and examining conquest, slavery, rebellion, and the consequences for colonized peoples. The book highlights strange, grim, and revealing episodes from imperial rule.

A medieval-history activity package that examines knights, peasants, monks, the Black Death, schooling, food, and daily life in the Middle Ages. Alongside facts, recipes, and games, it includes novelty items intended to extend the book’s gross-out approach to learning.

This nonfiction volume surveys 7,000 years of crime and punishment, following lawbreakers and law enforcers from pirates and highwaymen to witch-finders and tyrants. It explores prisons, executions, transportation, and other harsh ways societies have dealt with crime.

This history of France follows rebellion, revolution and royal power from the Dark Ages to the nineteenth century. Kings, queens, emperors and rebels feature in an account focused on the violence and suffering behind the country's past.

Agnes and other Christians wait in a cell to be thrown to the lions in ancient Rome. Young trainee lion-keeper Cass is responsible for the animals, but the planned execution makes his working day unexpectedly complicated.

Tommy Pickford's wealthy friend Laura disappears during a school magic show. When he discovers that the magician has kidnapped her for her family's money, Tommy tries to rescue her and puts himself in danger too.

An illustrated look at ancient Rome, from the city’s legendary founders to emperors, public spectacles, and the violence of the Colosseum. It focuses on the brutal customs, power struggles, and everyday horrors that lay behind the Roman Empire’s grand reputation.

The Earl of Essex uses the Globe Theatre in a rebellion against Elizabeth I, landing Shakespeare's company in prison. Young actor James must help persuade the queen to forgive them before the players can regain their freedom.

Queen Mary's arrival puts young Meg's town in a rush to impress her. A local lord plans to burn Old Nan as a witch, and Meg must help save an innocent woman from the crowd's cruelty.

Young Lambert Simnel claims that he should be king of England, provoking Henry VII's anger. Outmatched by the ruler he challenges, Lambert faces an unexpected punishment in a story drawn from the struggles of Tudor power.

This anniversary pack pairs a Tudor history book with a set of Horrible Histories playing cards. It explores Tudor rulers, peasants, criminals, curious remedies, and period games, while adding card-based activities for readers who want to bring the foul play off the page.

Young Eleanor's family makes its living cheating newcomers who arrive in Tudor London seeking their fortunes. Troubled by their dishonesty, she tries to stop a scam while Henry VIII's harsh approach to justice threatens everyone.

A fast-moving, illustrated survey of world history that follows humanity from early prehistory to twentieth-century wars. Its chapters spotlight civilizations, invasions, torture, rebellion, crime, exploration, and notorious villains, emphasizing the violent and bizarre details often skipped in textbook overviews.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on ancient Egypt. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This history of Britain’s Second World War home front covers blackout rules, air raids, rationing, evacuation, and the everyday shortages faced by civilians. It also looks at wartime slang, food substitutes, and real-life stories behind familiar images of the Blitz.

This illustrated history traces England through rebellions, riots and conflicts, from the Celts to the twentieth century. It focuses on the darker side of events that shaped the country, presenting its past through gruesome facts and humor.

A chronological, illustrated guide to the First World War that follows the conflict from its outbreak through trench life and the home front. It addresses soldiers, civilians, women’s changing roles, wartime communication, animals, food, and the harsh conditions faced by both sides.

An irreverent tour of Britain under George I through George IV, bringing together the period’s monarchs, social customs, and unsettling details. Short factual sections and cartoons introduce readers to the stranger, harsher, and more memorable sides of Georgian life.

An interactive introduction to ancient Greece, filled with quizzes, games, mazes, and facts about Greek heroes, enslaved people, myths, and the Olympic games. Readers can also assemble a push-out Greek soldier and use the activities to explore daily life and legends.

A 2004 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Romans. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This Horrible Histories volume explores Anglo-Saxon Britain through its invasions, customs, and everyday oddities. Terry Deary mixes historical facts about the Saxons with questions about their food, beliefs, luck, and battles with later Norman invaders.

This Tudor activity book combines picture puzzles, word games and reusable stickers with historical facts and cartoons. Readers can build a Tudor town, create a hall of fame and explore rulers, subjects and the work of executioners.

Timid Peter Stone visits the hypnotist Dr. Black and becomes trapped in an experiment gone wrong. Possessed by a spirit from the past, he must struggle to recover control of his body and mind before it overwhelms him.

A gang plans to steal the wealth buried with Tutankhamen, relying on young Paneb to squeeze into the funeral chamber. The promised treasure comes with a terrible risk: capture could mean torture and death for the boy.

A wide-ranging collection of strange, grisly, and amusing historical facts, moving from Roman graffiti and royal nicknames to punishments, odd foods, famous animals, and bizarre disasters. It is designed for browsing rather than following a single period or storyline.

Menes, a trainee scribe, takes extra work to help his poor family. A wealthy man wants a prayer to banish a family ghost, but Menes must discover whether the supposed haunting has a human explanation.

To earn money for his family, apprentice scribe Menes agrees to help a rich man troubled by a ghost. Writing a prayer is only the beginning, as he searches for the truth behind the haunting.

Workers building the Great Pyramid are blamed when their bullying supervisor Antef disappears. Young Dafia is the only witness, and she must devise a way to clear their names before suspicion brings punishment on the men.

A comic, fact-packed introduction to Stuart Britain, from James I’s accession through royal rivalries, religious persecution, the Gunpowder Plot, and civil war. It also explores strange customs and everyday life under the Stuart monarchs.

A lively history of Norman England centered on William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings, and the people who fought for power after 1066. It also ranges through Norman customs, crusading, piracy, and the unpleasant side of conquest.

This history follows the twentieth century from Queen Victoria's final years to the 1990s. Figures including Charlie Chaplin and Margaret Thatcher appear as it explores the events and social changes that transformed life across the century.

A Viking-themed sticker and puzzle book that uses word games, picture challenges, and reusable stickers to explore Norse gods and Scandinavian raiders. Activities invite readers to stage battles, make offerings to the gods, and follow the logic of a Viking invasion.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on Victorian Britain. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

Terry Deary examines the harsher and stranger sides of Victorian Britain, including crime, policing, inequality, and life for children and women. Martin Brown’s illustrations accompany stories and facts about the era’s criminals, social rules, and eccentric characters.

George, evacuated from the Blitz, finds comfort in cricket, while Esther, a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany, is forbidden to play football. These two stories explore whether a love of sport can help children survive wartime losses.

A Horrible Histories guide to London’s past, gathering gruesome, unusual, and turbulent episodes from the city’s history. Terry Deary approaches the capital through accessible facts and darkly comic historical details aimed at younger readers.

This hands-on companion to The Measly Middle Ages offers quizzes, games, mazes, recipes, and a press-out medieval knight. Activities and cartoons introduce aspects of medieval life, from knights and jousting to peasants and food.

This illustrated history examines rulers whose cruelty, strange demands and hunger for power made life miserable for their subjects. Kings, queens, emperors and presidents feature, including Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible, alongside accounts of suffering under their rule.

A 2005 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Stuarts. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

After giving fire to humans, Prometheus flees the gods' revenge by traveling through time. Hiding in Victorian Eden City, he befriends orphan Jim and discovers how people have used his gift in a world far from ancient Greece.

Prometheus travels through time to Eden City in 1795, where twelve-year-old Nell and her father run a fraudulent stage show. As the gods pursue their own schemes, he learns what humanity has made of the fire he gave it.

A broad, illustrated trip through world history, from early people and ancient civilizations to wars and modern conflict. Short, comic sections focus on the disasters, strange customs, cruel rulers, and unexpected details that make history hard to forget.

A compact guide to medieval knights that looks beyond armor and chivalry. It covers training, tournaments, castles, weapons, battle injuries, and the rough lives of people caught up in wars and crusades.

This handbook explores the harsh reality behind pirate legends, from shipboard life and stolen treasure to mutiny, punishment, and famous raiders. Quick facts and cartoons show why the sea could be every bit as dangerous as the shore.

This collection follows real criminals and the attempts to bring them to justice. Stories include Ned Kelly's siege, Dick Turpin's partnership and the Great Train Robbery, exploring dangerous crimes and the question of whether their perpetrators can escape.

These true disaster stories examine how people respond when lives are at stake. Accounts include a revenge attack that killed hundreds, a tragedy at sea that produced a hero and a railway crash that could have been prevented.

This collection investigates reported hauntings and other supernatural experiences, including poltergeists, ghost ships, curses and reincarnation. It presents the stories and examines the information behind them, inviting readers to consider what might explain these unsettling accounts.

Shark fact files accompany eight accounts of danger, survival and unexpected help at sea. Stories include an attack kept secret despite hundreds of deaths and a shark said to have saved two sailors, questioning the animals' fearsome reputation.

Will Marsden heads toward promised work with Shakespeare, but a one-eyed man is trying to kill him. When Judith Shakespeare is kidnapped, Will and Meg discover spies and dangerous secrets behind the world of the theatre.

Quizzes, games, mazes and reusable stickers introduce readers to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Incas. Activities include decorating a pharaoh's tomb, exploring unusual Olympic contests and playing an Incan initiation game, combining historical facts with hands-on puzzles.

On the day Dick Turpin faces execution in York, a boy hears conflicting accounts from people gathered beneath the scaffold. Their stories portray the highwayman as hero or monster, leaving the boy to question which legends deserve belief.

In Eden City in 1785, Sam and his mother run a medicine show with Prometheus's help. When their scheme is exposed, Zeus intervenes, drawing Sam into a struggle against seven monsters that have descended on the city.

Young slave Lydia works for Archimedes, whose inventions become vital when Rome besieges Syracuse. Her ideas help solve the city's problems, but the celebrated inventor receives the credit while she faces the limits imposed on a Greek servant girl.

As Elizabeth I nears death, witch hunts threaten Will Marsden's grandmother. Will goes to London to clear his family's name, but he and Meg encounter Doctor Dee and conspiracies around the queen while time runs out.

Elena learns that her twin brother has wagered her freedom on a school athletics contest against a bully. Excluded from competing herself, she must use her wits to help him win before she becomes the other boy's slave.

Orphaned by plague in Athens, Darius travels to Sparta to join his uncle, an army general. Feeling unwelcome among the Spartans, he faces a new crisis when his uncle falls ill and he must search for a cure.

This illustrated handbook follows fighters from different eras, looking at how they trained, fought, survived, and sometimes failed. It combines famous battles and warriors with the dirtier details of weapons, wounds, discipline, and military life.

A fact-filled guide to witchcraft fears, magic, accusations, and trials through history. It explores superstition and persecution, showing how ordinary people could be blamed, punished, and killed when communities went looking for someone to fear.

Rescued from a dangerous life as an Edinburgh chimney sweep, Bairn thinks his luck has changed. Instead, his new job draws him into a plot against Queen Victoria, leaving him to wonder whether freedom has brought him closer to the gallows.

Enslaved Bran dreams of returning to Britannia, but criticizing Rome lands him in prison awaiting execution. His fellow prisoner, the captured British chief Caratacus, proposes a way to save them both, provided Bran can help carry it out.

In Rome in AD 64, Christian slave girl Mary accompanies her master to the chariot races and witnesses a terrible crime. Her visit becomes dangerous as powerful enemies pose threats far greater than the city's ordinary thieves.

Trainee priest Brutus shelters in the Temple of Juno while a Gallic army besieges Rome. An offer of military help raises doubts about whom the temple's inhabitants can trust as they wait for rescue from an unlikely source.

While helping his grandmother prepare a feast, young Pertinax keeps Pliny company in the garden. Pliny tells him about a frightening ghost that once haunted a garden, leaving the boy to wonder whether such stories are merely inventions.

A young character is swept into a dangerous Tudor adventure centered on the Tower of London. Court politics, royal suspicion, and the threat of punishment turn this historical tale into a fast-moving introduction to the darker side of the period.

A quick, illustrated look at First World War trench life, covering mud, rats, lice, shellfire, food, medicine, and fear. It explains how soldiers on the front line endured the daily dangers behind the larger story of the war.

Gangsters, murderous rulers and other historical villains fill this illustrated collection for young readers. Deary examines the brutal acts and strange details behind their reputations, using humor to introduce people who gained power through fear and violence.

This handbook introduces some of history’s most feared and notorious people, from cruel rulers to criminals and traitors. Short profiles, lists, and cartoons examine what they did, why they were feared, and how their actions affected others.

This illustrated history explores Wales through stories of Druids, Norman tricks and women resisting a French invasion. Deary combines jokes with accounts of violence and unusual events, introducing young readers to the country's past through its stranger details.

This Roman adventure places its young characters near the dangers of life on the empire’s frontier. As conflict, harsh discipline, and the massive wall reshape their world, they must find a way through a crisis with consequences beyond their control.

In 1940, Alf Turner and Sally Midwell are evacuated after German bombing strikes Coventry. The countryside proves far from safe when Sally falls under the control of a frightening woman, and Alf must help plan a dangerous escape.

This guide examines the Blitz through air raids, shelters, blackouts, rationing, evacuation, and civilian life. It balances wartime facts with strange details about how families, children, and emergency workers managed during repeated attacks.

New pupil Smiff Smith enrolls at an academy where thieves teach students to steal from the rich and help the poor. Robbing Wildpool's miserly mayor becomes his assignment, bringing dangers he never expected from his unusual education.

Mr. and Mrs. Humble's harsh rule makes Wildpool's new workhouse a place the poor dread. Meanwhile, the Crime Academy students prepare an adventure involving disguises, ransom notes and a hostage, putting their latest criminal lessons into practice.

This illustrated annual mixes historical facts, humor and puzzles for young readers. Its sections travel from ancient Greece and medieval England to Mexico, China, France, Africa and the United States, presenting the past through short pieces and activities.

A collection of hundreds of jokes rooted in historical people, places, and events. Cartoons accompany the puns and gags, making this a humor-focused companion to the history facts and themes of the Horrible Histories series.

A large Tudor-themed activity book packed with historical facts about monarchs and executions, alongside word games, quizzes, and stickers. It offers an interactive tour of the Tudor court and its most notorious rulers.

A hands-on board book with five press-out projects drawn from historical settings. Readers can assemble models including a Roman arena, pirate, knight, executioner, and pyramid puzzle, then use the included play and construction ideas.

Set in the Viking age, this historical adventure follows young people caught between raiders, violence, and the ruins left behind by invasion. The story brings the fear and uncertainty of the period close while keeping the pace quick and readable.