Terry Deary Books in Order

A brisk history of espionage, secret messages, disguises, double agents, and dangerous missions. From ancient tricks to wartime intelligence, it shows how spies gathered information and why getting caught could have terrible consequences.

This illustrated guide introduces fifty notorious figures from history, grouped into categories such as assassins, rebels, criminals, rulers, and wicked women. Its profiles use varied formats, including stories, diary entries, mock newspapers, and fact files.

A humorous guide to life in ancient Egypt, covering gods, pyramids, mummies, pharaohs, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun. Facts, cartoons, a timeline, and a mummy quiz explore both everyday life and the Egyptians’ stranger mistakes.

This collection gathers several Horrible Histories Gory Stories into one volume. Young characters face danger in ancient Egypt, Roman Britain, and Tudor England, combining fictional adventures with grim details from the historical periods behind them.

A lively guide to Dublin’s past, uncovering unusual people, rough politics, rebellions, disasters, and strange local stories. It turns the city’s landmarks into entry points for the grim, funny, and surprising events behind them.

This guide to Edinburgh uncovers the city’s darker past through old streets, royal drama, graveyards, crime, and ghostly tales. Short facts and comic illustrations make its long, often grisly history easy to explore.

A quiz collection centered on grisly and comic moments from British history. Readers test their knowledge of historical people, events, and unpleasant details through questions designed for the Horrible Histories television tie-in range.

From Roman Londinium to wartime bombing, this guide explores London’s nastier history. Fires, plagues, executions, crime, crowded streets, and odd local characters show how the capital grew through centuries of upheaval.

This handbook cuts through the polished image of medieval knighthood to reveal hard training, brutal battles, strange rules, and uncomfortable castle life. It is packed with fast facts about armor, weapons, tournaments, and medieval violence.

A gruesome guide to Oxford explores the city beyond its famous university buildings. It digs into strange crimes, local legends, dangerous pastimes, and the people whose less polished stories shaped the streets and colleges.

A comic guide to pirate life, covering crews, ships, treasure, punishment, and famous sea raiders. It exposes the hunger, disease, danger, and bad decisions behind the swashbuckling stories, with facts designed for quick browsing.

A young adventurer is drawn into the brutal, uncertain world of pirates, stolen treasure, and life at sea. With danger closing in from every side, the story uses a fast historical plot to show that piracy was far less glamorous than legend suggests.

This city guide looks past Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare connections to uncover its stranger history. Gruesome tales, local characters, old punishments, and surprising facts reveal a town with more than one famous story to tell.

Ten comic-strip episodes trace the Tudor period from the Battle of Bosworth through Elizabeth I. The book condenses major rulers and events into a brisk historical overview, with humorous details about the dynasty’s politics, wars, and executions.

This history guide explores witchcraft, fear, folklore, and the cruel trials that followed accusations. It mixes strange beliefs and magic tales with the real human cost of witch hunts, showing how dangerous superstition could become.

A fast-moving guide to warriors from different times and places, with facts about fighting, weapons, leadership, and survival. It looks at what battle demanded of people and why the stories behind famous fighters are often messy.

A funny, fact-filled guide to York’s past, from Romans and Vikings to medieval conflict and later city life. It follows the grim stories behind familiar streets, walls, prisons, and landmarks, with plenty of unpleasant local details.

A comic-strip survey of medieval knights, moving from legendary tales and English warfare to the Crusades. Ten illustrated episodes explore the violence behind chivalry, presenting the period in a fast, accessible nonfiction format.

A comic-strip introduction to Ancient Rome told through ten episodes about turning points and notorious figures. Short fact sections and annotated visuals add context on Caesar, Spartacus, the Colosseum, and the Great Fire.

An illustrated handbook about the First World War trenches, from mud and rats to gas attacks and shellfire. Short sections explain how soldiers lived, fought, communicated, and tried to survive one of history’s most punishing battlefields.

This history book examines crime and punishment through unsettling cases and strange laws, from executions to school discipline. It also includes a local-policing challenge and a game about escaping the Tower of London.

A whirlwind tour of catastrophic and violent moments from across history, from the Great Fire of Rome to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The book gathers battles, disasters, crimes, and other deadly events into an illustrated, non-chronological history overview.

A Christmas-themed Horrible Histories collection that explores the darker and stranger side of the festive season. Organized around the twelve days of Christmas, it ranges across traditions, food, animals, royalty, games, weather, and notable events from different eras.

A Christmas-themed sticker activity book filled with quizzes, historical facts, and more than 500 stickers. Its festive subjects include trees, puddings, reindeer, pantomimes, and curious seasonal customs, giving young readers plenty to read and complete.

A hands-on sticker activity book that races through more than four million years of world history, from the Stone Age to the twentieth century. It includes foul facts, over 300 stickers, and a fold-out timeline stretching more than three metres.

A pocket-sized guide to fifty kings and queens, concentrating on the ruthless, strange, and scandalous sides of royalty. Bite-sized entries and lists introduce historical rulers through fresh material, full-color layouts, and Martin Brown's illustrations.

A fact-filled survey of fifty British castles, spanning Roman times through the London Blitz. It explores sieges, spies, betrayals, revenge, and strange castle anecdotes, including haunted strongholds and improvised defenses, with Martin Brown illustrations.

A large miscellany of strange, gruesome, and comic history facts. Short pieces range across subjects such as Roman graffiti, punishments, royal nicknames, unusual beauty practices, animals, food, and famous rulers, making it a browseable collection rather than a chronological history.

An interactive, date-by-date journal that pairs space for readers' notes, drawings, and diary entries with a grisly historical fact for every day of the year. This color reissue of Dreadful Diary invites readers to create their own horrible history.

A countdown-style guide to fifty notorious figures from history, combining short profiles with themed facts and lists. It introduces gangsters, mass murderers, and other infamous people whose actions made them feared, alongside Martin Brown's comic illustrations.

This anniversary yearbook gathers horrible people and grim episodes from across history in a mock school format. Readers meet the class of 1066, investigate especially vile historical figures, and work through facts, games, puzzles, and activities.

A guided tour through fifty historic great houses in Britain and Ireland, tracing their stories from prehistory to today. It looks beyond grand rooms to ghost tales, betrayals, and the people connected with places from Holyroodhouse to Buckingham Palace.

A twisted school yearbook gathers historical figures into a class of 1066, complete with mock awards, foul facts, activities, and games. Created to mark 25 years of Horrible Histories, it surveys notorious people and events from across history.

This hands-on guide explores First World War trench life for British and German troops. Fold-outs, illustrated fact files, letters, and paper features cover rations, weapons, lice, gas masks, and the daily struggle to survive the mud and shellfire.

Presented as Henry VIII’s imagined diary, this illustrated history book follows key moments in the Tudor king’s life. It uses a humorous first-person format to introduce young readers to one of England’s most notorious monarchs and his era.

This illustrated, diary-style introduction enters the imagined perspective of Queen Victoria. Covering major events in her life and the history of her empire, it offers an accessible, humorous route into Victorian history for younger readers.

This illustrated history book traces the often hazardous story of human flight, from kite experiments and homemade wings to ballooning and the Wright brothers. It presents aviation pioneers, failures, and breakthroughs through facts, stories, and the series’ comic approach.

This illustrated nonfiction collection investigates ghost stories and legends from around the world and across history. It ranges from ancient Egyptian spirits and Celtic rituals to royal hauntings, Edinburgh tales, ghost hunters, and historical attempts to explain or banish the supernatural.

Told as Boudica’s imagined private diary, this illustrated historical book follows the Iceni queen through Roman rule in Britain. It covers her rise as a warrior leader, her relationships and tribe, and the rebellion and battles that brought her into conflict with Rome.