Catherine Jinks Books In Order

Pagan Chronicles Books In Order

  1. Pagan’s Crusade (1994)
  2. Pagan in Exile (2004)
  3. Pagan’s Vows (2004)
  4. Pagan’s Scribe (2005)
  5. Pagan’s Daughter (2006)

Allie’s Ghost Hunters Books In Order

  1. Eglantine (2002)
  2. Eustace (2003)
  3. Eloise (2005)
  4. Elysium (2007)

Genius Books In Order

  1. Evil Genius (2005)
  2. Genius Squad (2008)
  3. The Genius Wars (2010)

City of Orphans trilogy Books In Order

  1. A Very Unusual Pursuit (2013)
  2. A Very Peculiar Plague (2013)
  3. A Very Singular Guild (2013)

Novels

  1. Witch Bank (1995)
  2. An Evening with the Messiah (1996)
  3. Little White Secrets (1997)
  4. Eye to Eye (1997)
  5. Piggy in the Middle (1998)
  6. The Horrible Holiday (1998)
  7. The Stinking Great Lie (1998)
  8. The Future Trap (1999)
  9. The Inquisitor (1999)
  10. What’s Hector McKerrow Doing These Days? (2000)
  11. The Notary (2000)
  12. Bella Vista (2001)
  13. Daryl’s Dinner (2001)
  14. To Die for (2002)
  15. The Gentleman’s Garden (2002)
  16. Spinning Around (2004)
  17. The Road (2006)
  18. Babylonne (2008)
  19. The Reformed Vampire Support Group (2009)
  20. Living Hell (2010)
  21. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (2011)
  22. The Paradise Trap (2012)
  23. Saving Thanehaven (2013)
  24. Shepherd (2019)
  25. Shelter (2021)
  26. The Attack (2021)

Picture Books

  1. You’ll Wake the Baby (2000)

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Catherine Jinks Books Overview

Pagan’s Crusade

The first book in the highly amusing, award winning Pagan Chronicles. Entertaining historical fiction, set in twelfth century Jerusalem the time of the crusades. Wham! So here I am, standing in a sea of dirt, with a big mad Templar lobbing rocks at my head. Wham! Like some kind of martyr. Wham! He throws like a catapult. ‘All right, Pagan, that’s enough.’ I should damn well think so. ‘Do you see what your problem is?’ Wait don’t tell me. You are. Pursued by some rather unsavoury and unwashed characters from the Jerusalem slums, sixteen year old Pagan Kidrouk has a cunning idea to avoid paying his debts he’ll join the order of the Templars. But it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire, when he’s assigned as squire to Lord Roland. Providing Templar escort to naive pilgrims is one thing, defending Jerusalem against the Infidels, led by Saladin, is definitely not what he signed up for! An action packed, fast moving story enlivened by the narrator’s wry reflections and warm wit.

Pagan in Exile

Catherine Jinks’s follow up to PAGAN’S CRUSADE is another tale with special appeal for boys filled with action, featuring a witty young narrator, and loaded with down and dirty details of medieval life. The year is 1188, and Jerusalem is in the hands of the Infidel. Upstanding Crusaders and their squires like Lord Roland Roucy de Bram and Pagan Kidrouk are returning to Europe, hoping to rally more knights to their cause. The sardonic young Pagan expects Lord Roland s family to be the picture of fortitude and good manners, but he is in for a rude awakening. Brutish and unfeeling, the de Bram clan cares nothing for the Crusades, or indeed for anything outside their neighborhood in France. Meanwhile, local unrest is brewing. Church authorities are duking it out with the de Brams over a group of ‘heretics’ living nearby. And now Pagan and Roland, sworn to defend Christianity, are left to decide for themselves whom to stand by and whom to trust.

Pagan’s Vows

‘Jinks again displays an amazing knack for blending utterly convincing period detail, earthy wisecracking, and profound respect for courtly and spiritual ideals.’ BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Having renounced the sword, Pagan and Lord Roland arrive at the Abbey of St. Martin to devote their lives to God. But no sooner are they outfitted in their novices’ habits than Pagan suspects that something mysterious is going on: someone is stealing alms, and Pagan is determined to find out who. The truth may come at a price, however one that could force Pagan to reconsider his pious role and his dedication to Roland. Now available in paperback, the third adventure of the four book Pagan Chronicles is a medieval thriller that leads the reader through a web of mystery and intrigue in the most unlikely of places.

Pagan’s Scribe

‘Rich in authentic detail, humor, grief, and deep insight into the life of the mind as well as the heart, this makes a fitting close to a high water mark in historical fiction.’ KIRKUS REVIEWS starred review

Impressed by the bookish Isidore, Pagan Kidrouk now Archdeacon of Carcassonne hires the boy as his scribe. Eager to flee a cloistered existence, naive Isidore quickly discovers that the real world isn’t all as the poets and philosophers claim. The year is 1209, and papal forcesfrom the north are driving their bloody crusade against the Cathar hereticsto Carcassonne. With the battle lines inching ever closer, the world ofFather Pagan, Lord Roland, and Roland’s mysterious brother grows more real to Isidore and more terrifying by the day. The last of four books inan acclaimed series, Pagan’s Scribe casts the worldly,wisecracking Pagan in an unexpected role as friend and mentor to a young soulin need.

Eglantine

Allie Gebhardt thought sharing a room with her younger brother Bethan was bad enough, but sharing a room with a ghost proves to be down right frightful. In this deliciously spooky tale, Allie’s family is haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a young girl who used to live in their house. After mysterious writings appear on the walls of Bethan s room, Bethan moves in with his older sister, much to her dismay. Irritated by her younger brother, Allie becomes determined to get rid of the unwanted guest in Bethan s room. This suspenseful tale combines mystery, cleverness, and a little bit of humor to create a frightfully fun ghost story for younger readers.

Eustace

After Allie’s last experience with a ghost, she thought she was finally free of phantoms in her life but that was before she went on a school trip to Hill End and found herself investigating several more of them. First there is the ghost of Granny Evans, pacing around the museum. Then she comes upon Eustace Harrow, possibly the ghost of a baby long dead, smashing things up in Taylor’s cottage. When two of her classmates disappear, Allie realizes that things have gotten much more serious, and she must take action.

Eloise

After Allie’s last experience with a ghost, she thought she was finally free of phantoms in her life but that was before she went on a school trip to Hill End and found herself investigating several more of them. First there is the ghost of Granny Evans, pacing around the museum. Then she comes upon Eustace Harrow, possibly the ghost of a baby long dead, smashing things up in Taylor’s cottage. When two of her classmates disappear, Allie realizes that things have gotten much more serious, and she must take action.

Elysium

To Allie, the Jenolan Caves ghost tour sounded like the perfect weekend for a ghost hunter like herself. She didn’t realize she was setting herself up for a whole lot more than just a haunted hotel and endless family squabbles. Something was on her trail-something vicious, mysterious, and very, very smelly. Mystery lovers will be captivated by this tale full of suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists and turns.

Evil Genius

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he’s fourteen and studying for his World Domination degree, taking clas*ses like embezzlement, misinformation, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart he s a lonely kid. When he falls for the mysterious and brilliant Kay Lee, he begins to question the moral implications of his studies for the first time. But is it too late to stop Dr. Darkkon from carrying out his evil plot? An engrossing thriller with darkness and humor, freaks and geeks, Evil Genius explores the fine line between good and evil in a strange world of manipulations and subterfuge where nothing is as it seems. 04/02/2007

Genius Squad

Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon, has died; and Prosper English who enrolled Cadel in the first place is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round the clock surveillance so he’ll be safe until he testifies against Prosper English. But nobody seems to want Cadel. Not Fiona, his social worker; not Saul Greeniaus, the detective assigned to protect him. When he is approached by the head of Genius Squad a group formed to investigate GenoME, one of Darkkon’s pet projects Cadel is dubious Genius Squad can offer him a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But why can’t he bring himself to tell Saul what the group is really up to? And how can Genius Squad protect Cadel once Prosper English breaks out of jail?

The Genius Wars

Boy genius Cadel Piggot has a new life. No more illegal hacking, no more false identities, and no more Prosper English. In fact, he even has a new family, and a new name Cadel Greenaius. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, he must figure out how the attack was executed, and who was behind it, a task that sends him barrelling back into the depths of the criminal activity he’d left behind, across oceans and continents, and straight into the life of Prosper English. With all of the high tech hijinks and fast paced action that made the first two books a huge success, GENIUS WARS is sure to please both fans of the series and new readers alike.

The Horrible Holiday

A horrible holiday? You bet! A car full of smelly nappies, a constipated dog…
Can anything else go wrong?

The Inquisitor

At a time when heresy is a heinous offense to be routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice. ut following the discovery of his superiors dismembered corpse, Brother Bernard finds that he himself has become the object of persecutionthanks to his passionate involvement with a mysterious suspect and her beautiful daughter. ursued as a heretic and implicated as a murderer, Bernard must make sense of this shocking crime and face his accusers. To fail at such a task means certain death. Recreating a world of intrigue, fear, and repression, Catherine Jinks brings 14th century France to vivid life.

The Gentleman’s Garden

Set in colonial Australia, this romantic novel explores love, hardship, and the strength of the human spirit. Dorothea Brande leaves the quiet harmony of her English home to accompany her soldier husband to rough and tumble Sydney in 1814. To soften the harshness of their life there, she begins cultivating an English garden with the help of her convict manservant, Daniel. Together, in the creation of this garden, Dorothea and Daniel find a new strength and a special kind of refuge, both in the garden and with each other. Dorothea begins to adapt to her unforgiving new environment, but her husband is steadily destroyed by it. Written in the spirit of the works of Jane Austen and George Eliot, the novel is set against a vivid backdrop of the political events of the time while the public and personal gossip of the day weave in and out of the storyline.

Spinning Around

Helen’s life never used to be so messy. Not when she had money in the bank, a great figure, a cutting edge haircut and a suede brush that she only used on suede. In those days, her world was like a well organised filofax, and her gorgeous boyfriend, Matt, was just the icing on the cake. Now it’s all different. She seems to be losing her grip as she juggles two kids, a never ending renovation and a part time job that has unexpectedly become her refuge. As for that wildly sexy and endearingly impulsive boyfriend, he’s turned into a wildly impractical and annoyingly impulsive husband. Even so, Helen doesn’t want to lose him to a Girl With Purple Hair. During one crazy, out of control week she finds herself in some kind of bizarre soap opera, checking phone bills, emptying Matt’s wallet, rifling through his underwear drawer, employing a private detective A funny, warm and universal story about finding out what’s really important.

The Road

A group of travelers are menaced by an unseen force in this chilling, supernatural horror tale. A truck driver, a schoolboy, a retired bank manager, and an eccentric country woman are among the group thrown together on the Silver City Highway where they are able to go neither forward or backward on a nightmarish journey that won’t end. And when they run out of gas, the land seems to funnel them towards a homestead where a number of gory murders have occurred. Told from shifting perspectives by characters who seem to be hiding something, suspense builds as the group collapses under the escalating stress.

Babylonne

Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming of age tale featuring a headstrong hero*ine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages. Early thirteenth century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She’s tough, resourceful, and now that her strict aunt and abusive grandmother intend to marry her off to a senile old man desperate. Disguised as a boy, Babylonne embarks on an action packed adventure that amounts to a choice: trust the mysterious Catholic priest a sworn enemy to her Cathar faith who says he’s a friend of her dead father, Pagan. Or pursue a fairy tale version of her future, one in which she’ll fight and likely die in a vicious war with the French. Though Babylonne never knew her irreverent father, fans of Catherine Jinks’s novels about Pagan Kidrouk will be sure to see the resemblance in his feisty daughter.

The Reformed Vampire Support Group

Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves. Nina Harrison, fanged at fifteen and still living with her mother, hates The Reformed Vampire Support Group meetings every Tuesday night. Even if she does appreciate Dave, who was in a punk band when he was alive, nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until one of group members is mysteriously destroyed by a silver bullet. With Nina determined to prove that vamps aren’t useless or weak and Dave secretly in love with Nina at the helm, the misfit vampires soon band together to track down the hunter, save a werewolf, and keep the world safe from the likes of themselves. The perfect anecdote to slick vampire novels, this murder mystery comedy of errors will thrill fans of Evil Genius.

Living Hell

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen year old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force. As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship that’s nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.

The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

A werewolf? I kept stumbling over that word; it made no sense to me. How could I be a werewolf? Werewolves didn’t exist. When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Toby’s prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones about Toby being a werewolf. Reuben’s pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support group. This has to be a joke – right? It’s only when he’s kidnapped, imprisoned and in desperate need of rescuing that Toby begins to believe them…

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