Chris Wooding Books In Order

Broken Sky Part 1

Kia and Ryushi have spent their childhood sheltered from the land beyond the mountains. They’ve had plenty of time to sharpen their combat skills and it’s a good thing. All around them, forces are growing that will shatter their isolated existence and plunge them into a desperate conflict.

Broken Sky Part 2

Ryushi is a prisoner in the deadly Fane Aracq. His mind is under assault from the Scour’s gripping powers, and it is only a matter of time before Princess Aurin knows all of Paraka s secrets. Ryushi s resistance to the Princess is weakening…
but with each secret he divulges to her, a strategy for defeating his enemy takes shape in his mind. Only one question remains: who is brave enough to carry out Ryushi s dangerous plans?

Broken Sky Part 3

Kia and Ryushi have spent their childhood sheltered from the land beyond the mountains. They’ve had plenty of time to sharpen their combat skills and it’s a good thing. All around them, forces are growing that will shatter their isolated existence and plunge them into a desperate conflict.

Broken Sky Part 5

Ryushi is a prisoner in the deadly Fane Aracq. His mind is under assault from the Scour’s gripping powers, and it is only a matter of time before Princess Aurin knows all of Paraka s secrets. Ryushi s resistance to the Princess is weakening…
but with each secret he divulges to her, a strategy for defeating his enemy takes shape in his mind. Only one question remains: who is brave enough to carry out Ryushi s dangerous plans?

Broken Sky Part 6

Ryushi is a prisoner in the deadly Fane Aracq. His mind is under assault from the Scour’s gripping powers, and it is only a matter of time before Princess Aurin knows all of Paraka s secrets. Ryushi s resistance to the Princess is weakening…
but with each secret he divulges to her, a strategy for defeating his enemy takes shape in his mind. Only one question remains: who is brave enough to carry out Ryushi s dangerous plans?

Broken Sky Part 7

A year has passed. Kia and Elani are gone. Ryushi has been Bonded. And Princess Aurin has fled. Now, Calica is faced with an awesome responsibility. The fate of an entire race is in her hands and she’s not sure she can handle it. Meanwhile, the members of Parakka are faced with a challenge of their own. They must stop Macaan and the Machinists from destroying the world once and for all. Have their enemies already grown too strong?

The Weavers of Saramyr

This is the story of the ancient empire of Saramyr an empire that rules over a land overwhelmed by evil. The evil comes from within the empire’s center: the Weavers, a sect of male magicians close to the throne, intent on killing any child born with magical powers. But now the Empress has given birth to just such a child and a revolution is brewing.

Written by young publishing phenomenon Chris Wooding, The Braided Path is a dark, manga influenced fantasy of a terrifying world a world across which plays a spellbinding plot of power, violence, and betrayal. Still in his twenties, Chris Wooding has published 18 books, including the Broken Sky series, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in the U.S. alone. He is also a winner of Britain s prestigious Silver Smarties Prize for his acclaimed novel, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which he is now adapting for a Hollywood film.

The Skein of Lament

The Weavers grip on Saramyr’s rulers has grown ever more powerful, and all the while, the blight they have brought grows harsher. The land is slipping into civil war. In the mounting chaos, Kaiku and the orphaned heir Empress must fight for their destiny and their survival, as Saramyr succumbs to the twisting of the Weave and the unknowable ambitions of the secretive Weavers.

Written by young publishing phenomenon Chris Wooding, The Braided Path is a dark, manga influenced fantasy of a terrifying world a world across which plays a spellbinding plot of power, violence, and betrayal. Still in his twenties, Chris Wooding has published 18 books, including the Broken Sky series, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in the U.S. alone. He is also a winner of Britain s prestigious Silver Smarties Prize for his acclaimed novel, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which he is now adapting for a Hollywood film.

The Ascendancy Veil

The war that is destroying the ancient Empire of Saramyr is reaching its apocalyptic conclusion. The Weavers have stepped from the shadows and seized control, the capital is a haunted nightmare, and the land is ridden by pestilence. Terrifying demons, immune to all but magic, have been unleashed on the cities and the armies of the resistance movement. And the Aberrant hordes are seemingly without end. As the final madness of the Weavers takes hold, their tactics become ever more crazed and bloody, with thousands dying on both sides. Someone must stop the Weavers someone must discover what lies at the bottom of the cavernous pits that they have dug across Saramyr.

Retribution Falls

Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn’t just a nuisance anymore he’s public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don’t. That freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he’s going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers, dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons. It’s going to take all his criminal talents to prove he’s not the criminal they think he is…

The Black Lung Captain

Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It’s getting so a man can’t make a dishonest living any more. Enter Captain Grist. He’s heard about a crashed aircraft laden with the treasures of a lost civilisation, and he needs Frey’s help to get it. There’s only one problem. The craft is lying in the trackless heart of a remote island, populated by giant beasts and subhuman monsters. Dangerous, yes. Suicidal, perhaps. Still, Frey’s never let common sense get in the way of a fortune before. But there’s something other than treasure on board that aircraft. Something that a lot of important people would kill for. And it’s going to take all of Frey’s considerable skill at lying, cheating and stealing if he wants to get his hands on it…
Strap yourself in for another tale of adventure and debauchery, pilots and pirates, golems and daemons, double crosses and double double crosses. The crew of the Ketty Jay are back!

The Iron Jackal

Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has been fixed up good as new. They’ve got their first taste of fortune and fame. And, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. Even Trinica Dracken, Frey’s ex fiancee and long time nemesis, has given up her quest for revenge. In fact, she’s offered them a job one that will take them deep into the desert heart of Samarla, the land of their ancient enemies. To a place where the secrets of the past lie in wait for the unwary. Secrets that might very well cost Frey everything. Join the crew of the Ketty Jay on their greatest adventure yet: a story of mayhem and mischief, roof top chases and death defying races, murderous daemons, psychopathic golems and a particularly cranky cat. The first time was to clear his name. The second time was for money. This time, Frey’s in a race against the clock for the ultimate prize: to save his own life.

Malice

Everyone’s heard of it…
but nobody’s read it. Luke, Seth, and Kady have heard all the stories about Malice a secret comic about a strange, awful world full of tricks and traps, and overseen by a sinister master of ceremonies, Tall Jake. But if the rumours are to be believed, the children in this comic are real…
Luke is the first to fall into this trap and Seth and Kady are the next to follow. They have left our world and entered the sinister comic book. The question is can they make it out alive? From acclaimed author, Chris Wooding, a novel that’s half fact, half comic and all thrills.

Havoc

Getting into the sinister comic book world of MALICE is just the beginning. Getting out of it is much, much harder as it surviving while you make your attempt. Part novel, part comic book, all thrill welcome to MALICE.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

The Alienest meets Dracula in this gripping, gothic horror thriller from young UK phenom Chris Wooding. Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych hunter. Together, he and Cathaline his friend and mentor track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray. Alaizabel is half crazed, lovely, and possessed. Whatever dreadful entity has entered her soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet attracting evil and drawing horrors from ever dark corneer. Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause and defend humanity at all costs.

Crashing

Sixteen-year-old Jay wants to throw a party to celebrate the start of the summer. He wants to spend time with his friends before they all drift apart. He wants to make himself known to Jo, the girl he’s had a crush on for years. He wants to bring everyone together. But quickly things start going wrong. Friends turn on each other. The past comes back with a vengeance. And the party is crashed by some locals who want to drag Jay to a place he’d vowed he’d never go again.

Kerosene

There are millions of boys like Cal in high schools across America. He’s got an okay family and some screwed up friends. He s not popular, but he s not unpopular, either. He s just there. But a reckless, inarticulate tension inside him is waiting for release, something he can t always control. He wants everything to go right and tries to do good when he can. When that doesn t work he burns things. He destroys. He cries out and wonders if anyone hears.

Poison

In ‘a novel almost unparalleled for density and invention’ Horn Book, YA phenom Chris Wooding introduces an electrifying hero*ine…
and an unforgettable story. Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when her sister is snatched by the mean spirited faeries, she seeks out the Phaerie Lord to get her back. But finding him isn’t easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling. With only her wits and her friends to aid her, Poison must survive the attentions of the Phaerie Lord, rescue her sister, and thwart a plot that’s beyond anything she or the reader can imagine…
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Storm Thief

A darkly thrilling new novel from master storyteller Chris Wooding, about a civilization plagued by chaos and reality rearranging storms. Orokos is a city of chaos, lashed by probability storms that re order the world wherever they strike. It covers every inch of the rocky island that it dominates. It has stood for so long that history has forgotten it, and its citizens no longer question what exists beyond its walls. Then three of its denizens discover a map that holds the key to the secret at the heart of Orokos. But there are others, such as the Chief of the Protectorate Secret Police, who would do anything to get their hands on that power…
anything at all…

The Fade

A subterranean world of vast caverns, underground seas, crystalline forests. A civilization born of darkness, in darkness, protected by shadows. A city of merchants, whose eyes have turned upward to the surface, where the lethal light of day beats down on their world. A conspiracy so vast that it will swallow them all. A stunningly original fantasy from a multi award winning author. With a beautiful baroque world, sharp characterization, and Chris Wooding’s trademark insight into the fantasy genre, the dawning of Halflight is an event more than worth waiting for.

Blood Sinister (By:Celia Rees)

Ellen’s just sixteen, but she’s dying and nobody knows why. So when she’s sent to her gran’s house she’s relieved to find a distraction in the form of her great grandmother’s diaries, written when she was Ellen’s age. As Ellen reads, she becomes increasingly embroiled in the fascinating story of her life. Who is the enigmatic and seductive Count her great grandmother was supposed to marry? And why is it that Ellen and her great grandmother resemble each other so much that they could be twins? But Ellen’s condition is worsening, and it’s becoming more and more difficult for her to distinguish her own life from the nightmarish events recorded in the diaries. Is the past destroying her, or do the diaries hold the key to Ellen’s survival…
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The Vanished (By:Celia Rees)

A tale to make your blood run cold…
It all started as stories playground tales handed down for generations. Stories of plague graves, vanished children and hidden steps leading to a festering underworld. A world so real you could almost smell it…
But when another child goes missing, Fraser wonders if there’s some truth in the tales. The dank tunnels running under the city are real enough. Who knows what horrors their depths contain? only Billy. He knows about a decaying kingdom far more terrifying thananyone could imagine…

Catchman

What with the ongoing gang fights between Davey’s lot and the Abbey Cross crew, and the rumours about a serial killer stalking the city streets, Davey’s already pretty edgy. So when one night he loses Benjy and finds himself alone, running from the gang that hate him, it’s just what he doesn’t need to come across a blank faced, hooded figure in the cemetery. Could this be the Catchman that everyone’s talking about? Davey’s not sure; all he knows is that now he’s edgier than ever nightmares plague his sleep, and his weird black outs are getting more and more frequent…
The Catchman is shadowing him Davey knows it. He’s just waiting for Davey to slip up…

Facetaker (By:Philip Gross)

Exciting mystery about a photo booth with a sinister yet seductive power. It began as a game the four of us, winding each other up with those stories about the photo booth down at the station how it could…
see things about people things they wouldn’t want to know about themselves. But once you’ve started, you can’t stop. And by the time we realised it was serious deadly serious then it was too late.

Facetaker (By:Philip Gross)

Exciting mystery about a photo booth with a sinister yet seductive power. It began as a game the four of us, winding each other up with those stories about the photo booth down at the station how it could…
see things about people things they wouldn’t want to know about themselves. But once you’ve started, you can’t stop. And by the time we realised it was serious deadly serious then it was too late.

The Cunning Man (By:Celia Rees)

Finn hates water. She’s haunted by terrifying nightmares in which she is running before a huge wave that threatens to engulf hern watery darkness for ever. And the dreams have been worse since she, her mum and her two younger brothers arrived in Cornwall. Then she discovers the strange curse that was laid upon the cottage years ago, and she’s sure vengeful Griffiths has something to do with it. She’s seen him, endlessly tying and retying a length of rope, creating the knots that superstition has it can conjure storms. Finn knows that she’s in mortal danger if she can’t find a way to break the curse…

This Is Push

Contributing authors: Patricia McCormick, Kevin Brooks, Chris Wooding, Markus Zusak, Brian James, Kristen Kemp,Eireann Corrigan, Christopher Krovatin, Billy Merrell, Matthue Roth, Kevin Waltman, Samantha Schutz, Coe Booth, Eddie de Oliveira, Tanuja Desai Hidier.