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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2017
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Tide Child Trilogy

1 - The Bone Ships (Sep-2019)
2 - Call of the Bone Ships (Nov-2020)
3 - The Bone Ship's Wake (Oct-2021)

Wounded Kingdom

1 - Age of Assassins (Aug-2017)
2 - Blood of Assassins (Feb-2018)
3 - King of Assassins (Aug-2018)

Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • The first in a new epic fantasy trilogy set in a world ravaged by magic, featuring a cast of assassins, knights, and ambitious noblemen. Girton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land. He's ...



  • The epic sequel to RJ Barker's fantasy debut Age of Assassins, set in a world ravaged by magic, featuring a cast of assassins, knights, and ambitious noblemen. In a desperate bid to escape the bounty on his head, assassin Girton Club-Foot has retu...



  • The epic conclusion to RJ Barker's debut fantasy trilogy, set in a world ravaged by magic, featuring a cast of assassins, knights, and ambitious noblemen. Many years of peace have passed in Maniyadoc, years of relative calm for the assassin Girton...



  • A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have bui...



  • "A whole lot of swashbuckling awesomeness. A definite winner!"  -- John Gwynne, author of The Shadow of the Gods A brilliantly imagined epic fantasy of honor, glory, and warfare, Call of the Bone Ships is the action-packed sequel to RJ Bark...



  • "A vividly realized high-seas epic that pulls you deep into its world and keeps you tangled there until the very last word." -- Evan WinterThe tale of the Tide Child comes to an end in The Bone Ship's Wake, a brilliantly imagined saga of h...



  • “A splendid fantasy work, full of RJ’s trademark invention." -- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Our lands are wild with gods. Our woods are wild with monsters... Cahan is known as a Forester -- a man capable of nav...



  • "You fear the forest.. It is not foolish." His words rang like bells in the clearing, each face reacting to their din. "But the forest does not hate you, it does not hunt you. It simply does not care about you." From British Fantasy Award-winnin...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

R.J. Barker has published 8 books.

The next book by R.J. Barker, Warlords of Wyrdwood, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by R.J. Barker, Age of Assassins, was published in August 2017.

Yes. R.J. Barker has 2 series.