Celia Rees Books In Order

The Celia Rees Supernatural Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. City of Shadows (2002)
  2. A Trap in Time (2002)
  3. The Host Rides Out (2002)

H.A.U.N.T.S. Books In Publication Order

  1. H Is for Haunting (1998)
  2. A Is for Apparition (1998)
  3. U Is for Unbeliever (1998)
  4. N Is for Nightmare (1998)
  5. T Is For Terror (1998)
  6. S Is for Shudder (1998)

Point Horror Unleashed Books In Publication Order

  1. Transformer (By:Philip Gross) (1996)
  2. Blood Sinister (1996)
  3. Transformer (By:Philip Gross) (1996)
  4. The Vanished (1997)
  5. Catchman (By:Chris Wooding) (1998)
  6. Facetaker (By:Philip Gross) (1999)
  7. Facetaker (By:Philip Gross) (1999)
  8. Amy (By:Samantha Lee) (2000)
  9. The Cunning Man (2000)
  10. The Bogle (By:Samantha Lee) (2000)
  11. The Bogle (By:Samantha Lee) (2000)
  12. The Belltower (By:Samantha Lee) (2012)

Witch Child Books In Publication Order

  1. Witch Child (2000)
  2. Sorceress (2002)

Colour Her Dead Books In Publication Order

  1. Colour Her Dead (1994)
  2. Midnight Hour (1997)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Every Step You Take (1993)
  2. The Bailey Game (1994)
  3. Soul Taker (1997)
  4. Ghost Chamber (1999)
  5. Truth or Dare (2000)
  6. Decayed: Ten Years Of Point Horror (With: Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2001)
  7. Pirates! (2003)
  8. The Wish House (2005)
  9. The Stone Testament (2007)
  10. Sovay (2008)
  11. The Fool’s Girl (2010)
  12. This is Not Forgiveness (2011)
  13. Glass Town Wars (2018)
  14. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Decayed: Ten Years Of Point Horror (With: Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2001)

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Celia Rees Books Overview

City of Shadows

Twelve year old Davey discovers the exceptional power of his sixth sense when he explores the ancient underground city in his hometown. Here he confronts both good and bad spirits and one evil shapeshifter who follows him back to his own time to bring him to his death.

A Trap in Time

The darkest time of the year, when evil powers are greatest Davey encounters a strangely familiar face and finds himself locked in a terrifying time trap in which past and present collide Then bones are discovered at a dig in the city. Davey, Kate, Tom, and Elinor are caught in a desperate race against time, for these relics threaten living and dead, and evil is not confined to the world of spirits

The Host Rides Out

Paranormal activity is creating chaos for all who live and work in the city, and Davey is more alert than his sister and cousins to voices from the past. Will the ghost hunter brought in to investigate uncover the root of the problem, or is his very presence a trigger for evil sprits to make themselves known? And now Davey must be on his guard as never before his nemesis, The Lady, has returned; he must escape her deadly clutches by Midsummer or be in her thrall forever

U Is for Unbeliever

The darkest time of the year, when evil powers are greatest Davey encounters a strangely familiar face and finds himself locked in a terrifying time trap in which past and present collide Then bones are discovered at a dig in the city. Davey, Kate, Tom, and Elinor are caught in a desperate race against time, for these relics threaten living and dead, and evil is not confined to the world of spirits

Blood Sinister

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…
?

The Vanished

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 (By:Chris Wooding)

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

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…

Witch Child

Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary’s startling story begins in 1659, the year her beloved grandmother is hanged in the public square as a witch. Mary narrowly escapes a similar fate, only to face intolerance and new danger among the Puritans in the New World. How long can she hide her true identity? Will she ever find a place where her healing powers will not be feared?

Just two weeks after publication, Celia Rees s Witch Child spirited its way onto the Book Sense Children s Only 76 list as one of the Top 10 books that independent booksellers like to handsell. Within a month, this riveting book sold out its first two hardcover printings. Now, Candlewick Press is pleased to announce the publication of Witch Child in paperback.

Sorceress

For the legions of readers spellbound by WITCH CHILD, here’s the fascinating next chapter thanks to a Native American descendant with an uncanny link to the past. Agnes closed her eyes in the heat and steam of the sweat lodge. She woke to air that was dry and cold around her. She was no longer Agnes, or even Karonhisake, Searching Sky. She was no longer American or Haudenosaunee. She was English, and her name was Mary, and she woke to find that she was dying, freezing to death. It came to Agnes unbidden a vision of Mary Newbury, alone in the snow, dying of the cold. A vision of a young woman who had lived in the 1600s, who had been driven from her Puritan settlement, accused of being a witch. It was an image of a woman whose life was about to change radically as she embarked on an existence that defied all accepted norms embracing passionate independence, love, and loyalty to a proud, endangered community that accepted her as one of their own. Mary s and Agnes s lives have been separated by almost 400 years, but they are inextricably linked by more than blood. For, like Mary, Agnes has special powers and Mary now seeks these powers to ensure that the rest of her story is told.

The Bailey Game

Even if she doesn’t believe in the ghost of Michael Bailey, Alex Lewis is still haunted by the memory of the terrifying incident that took place two years ago, and by the fact that she too played the vicious game which led to it The Bailey Game. And all it takes for the game to start again is the arrival of a new girl, Lauren Price, who doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of the class. Alex is suddenly confronted with some difficult decisions, but ultimately her friendship with Lauren and her memory of the unstoppable Bailey Game demand that this time she opts out of the game and faces the perils of being on the outside…
‘A very exciting and disturbing tale which will hold the reader’s interest right to the end. I highly recommend ‘The Bailey Game” Michele Elliot, ‘Kidscape’.

Soul Taker

Lewis James is unhappy. Overweight and unpopular, his dad despises him, the girl he likes won’t look at him he has no friends, no life. Desperate to change, anxious to know all about his future, he tries a fortune teller with a difference: a beguiling and seemingly caring toyshop owner, Mr Jardine. Jardine suggests Lewis somehow get a lock of Lisa’s hair then Jardine will use his ‘psychic gifts’ to influence her. But what Lewis doesn’t know is that Jardine has no intention of helping him or Lisa. Jardine is a spirit thief a Soul Taker. He wants human souls to bring his ‘children’ to life and now he has Lewis right where he wants him. Ater all, a deal’s a deal. A life for a life, a soul for a soul.

Ghost Chamber

The Goodman children are spending their first proper holiday with their estranged archaeologist father since their parents divorced looking forward to seeing what his new house in the country is like. They know it is a crumbling old pub, which he is renovating, but not long after they arrive, they realize their dad bought the pub for a reason because of what is said to be buried beneath it. Objects move in the night, strange noises can be heard coming from the cellar, and a creepy looking guy is hanging around the village asking sinister questions about their dad, and the old pub. Thirteen year old Hugh Goodman is intrigued, and digs a little deeper into the mysteries of the house than he should. Before he knows it he and his siblings are caught up in a horrifying secret, and the discovery of an ancient chamber, where lies the restless ghost of a buried templar knight. Will the ghost avenge his own death using innocent children, or can they manage to beat evil forces?

Truth or Dare

A room of secrets in a house of lies…
When Josh explores his grandmother’s house he finds an attic up a closed off staircase. In it is a collection of strange drawings by his uncle, Patrick, who died suddenly in his teens. But he has no grave, and his name is never spoken. And Josh begins to uncover the dark truth his family has hidden for forty years…
Truth or Dare‘ doesn’t let up and hits you with a final twist.’ ‘Daily Telegraph’. ‘An unsettling, unputdownable mystery.’ ‘TES’. ‘A moving book.’ ‘The Times’. ‘Cecila Rees recounts a terrible human tragedy.’ Children’s Book of the Week, ‘Guardian’.

Pirates!

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger and gold, two unusual girls, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, one a rich merchant’s daughter, the other her plantation slave, set sail from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance. Not just any trading ship, Deliverance flies black flags from its mast and proclaims to all that the new ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope. For Nancy, Deliverance is her escape from an arranged marriage with a controlling and devilish man. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy s family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship and the chance to see the world not as women, but as fearsome pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny. From the award winning and best selling author Celia Rees comes a powerful, thrilling and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.

The Wish House

From the best selling author of WITCH CHILD and SORCERESS comes another engrossing, atmospheric novel following a teenage boy as he uncovers the secrets of the mysterious and provocative Wish House.

It’s the start of summer vacation, and fifteen year old Richard has discovered that a family has taken up residence in the usually deserted Wish House. Richard is intrigued by both the house and the bohemian family now living there. The father, Jethro Dalton, is an internationally renowned painter; his seemingly licentious wife is fascinated by herbs and cures. But it’s their beautiful and vibrant daughter, Clio, the muse for Jethro’s paintings, who draws Richard utterly into the Daltons’ world. Soon Richard finds himself so captivated by Clio that he steals off to the woods to spend days and nights with her, meanwhile struggling to understand and fit in with her eccentric clan. How could he know that some mysteries are best left alone and that some betrayals can never be forgiven?

The Stone Testament

Zillah is a Child of the Sixth Dawn but she has stumbled on the fraudulent basis of the cults claims. So when they are all ordered to commit suicide, Zillah contrives to survive. But the leader also survives and he must prevent Zillah from revealing what she knows. Meanwhile Adam, brought up by the religious order The Temple, discovers his long last father very ill in hospital. His father’s few possessions include a collection of letters and documents, which reveal an extraordinary history of occult practice. And he realises that the Temple want him and his father out of the way. This absorbing and complex novel is a masterpiece of suspense by a highly successful and acclaimed author of ‘Witch Girl’, ‘Pirates’ and ‘The Wish House’.

Sovay

It’s England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn t sitting for portraits, she s donning a man s cloak and robbing travelers in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound, and rumors of sedition can quickly lead to disappearances. So when Sovay lifts the wallet of one of England s most powerful and dangerous men, it s not just her own identity she must hide, but that of her father. A dazzling historical saga in which the roles of thieves and gentry, good and bad, and men and women are interchanged to riveting effect.

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