Chaz Brenchley

Author Information
Chaz Brenchley's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1988
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

The Keys to D'Esperance

1 - House of Doors (Jan-2012)
2 - House of Bells (Jul-2012)

Outremer

1 - The Devil in the Dust (1998)
2 - Tower of the King's Daughter (Aug-2002)
3 - A Dark Way to Glory (Aug-2003)
4 - Feast of the King's Shadow (Sep-2003)
5 - Hand of the King's Evil (Sep-2003)
6 - The End of All Roads (Nov-2003)

The Selling Water by the River

1 - Bridge of Dreams (May-2006)
2 - River of the World (Apr-2007)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Samaritan

    In this psychological suspense novel, an ex-cop who has just resigned from the police force is drawn back into a nightmarish race against time to find the killer who murdered his friend. The only clue he finds leads to a senior man in the local br...

  • The Refuge

  • The Devil in the Dust

    Outremer - 1

    Marron, a young knight in training to become a Knight of Ransomer, and Julianne, the daughter of the King's Shadow, embark on a perilous journey to Roq de Rancon, the stronghold of the Order of the Knights Ransomer, where they are drawn into a danger...

  • Tower of the King's Daughter

    Outremer - 2

    Go to the Sharai, Daughter of the Shadow... The desert-dwelling Sharai are massing on Outremer's borders to recapture that bloodstained land. The Knights Ransomers -- the Kingdom's fanatical warrior-priests -- stand poised to repel them. But the y...

  • A Dark Way to Glory

    Outremer - 3

    As the Sharai tribes come together to prepare for the arrival of the Ghost Walker, Marron becomes possessed by an uncontrollable force that transforms him into a killing machine, and Julianne encounters the deadly Sand Dancers as she journeys to Rhab...

  • Feast of the King's Shadow

    Outremer - 4

    Where courage counted above all, one woman could make the difference... Enemies of long standing are united under the fiercely charismatic Hasan -- and Outremer may be defeated before the first battle has even been fought. The Ghost Walker's loyal...

  • Hand of the King's Evil

    Outremer - 5

  • The End of All Roads

    Outremer - 6

    After the Knights Ransomer and the desert-dwelling Sharai are attacked by the djinni, the shapeshifting 'ifrit, and the ghul on the borders of Surayon, the survivors band together to march into the palace on the Mount of Ascariel to confront the King...

  • Bridge of Dreams

    The Selling Water by the River - 1

    For a thousand years, the great city of Sund stood impregnable while its enemy, Maras, remained outside the walls. Then the Marasi harnessed the powers of magic. Erecting an otherworldly bridge whose foundations were rooted in sorcery, the Marasi ove...



  • Shelter


    “An exceptional, strange and affecting psychological thriller . . . mesmerizing, lyrical and hypnotic, with a stunning climax.” -- The Bookseller


    “Bewitchingly told. . . . This is a story to savor, with a twist in the tail...

  • River of the World

    The Selling Water by the River - 2

    The two cities of Maras-Sund are bound by an otherwordly bridge the Marasi used to conquer the Sundain. With their own magic over the water diminished, the Sundain's only hope for liberation lies with a man of limitless but untested power... Posse...

  • House of Doors

    The Keys to D'Esperance - 1

    War widow Ruth Taylor arrives at RAF Morwood, the great house formerly known as D’Esperance, hoping that nursing badly wounded airmen will distract her from her sorrows. But almost as soon as she enters the house, she experiences strange visions an...

  • House of Bells

    The Keys to D'Esperance - 2

    A haunting tale of terror from a master of the genre. When she is offered an undercover assignment by newspaper editor (and her former lover) Tony Fledgwood, professional party girl Grace Harley jumps at the chance to disappear from London and es...

  • The Garden

    At twenty-four, Steph Anderson has been two years a widow, her husband Tom the second victim of a brutal serial murderer terrorizing Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England. The Sherpas, a self-help organization for the bereaved, introduce Steph to A...

  • Being Small

    British Fantasy Award winner Chaz Brenchley has crafted a deeply personal ghost story of dead twins and mad mothers, of Moleskine notebooks and teen friendships, of AIDS care-givers and more.

    “... a powerful, moving book that will haunt m...

  • Bitter Waters

  • Dead of Light

    When Benedict left home, it was maybe the first time he'd stood up to his family. It was also meant to be the last. "No contact," he said. "I'm disinvesting."

    In all honesty, they weren't sorry to see him go. Ben had never had their talent, nev...

  • Light Errant

    Ben's back and this time he means business. Family business...Benedict Macallan, protagonist of "Dead of Light" and wonder-worker malgr lui, has travelled the length and breadth of Europe and still discovered no family like his own. Maybe Macallan...

  • Rotten Row

    Rotten Row is the worst place we’ve made.Humankind can travel to the stars -- but only those content to be flung as a datastream through space, flitting from male to female, dark to fair, one random discard body to the next. Those who go are the ...



  • Blood Waters

    All the stories in this book either fed into or grew out of the year I spent as crimewriter-in-residence on the St. Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project in Sunderland, 1993-94. At the time it seemed as though it had to be one of the strangest jobs in ...

  • Mall Time

    The author plots 24 hours in the lives of a group of disparate characters drawn together in a few hours of terrifying carnage....

  • Paradise

    They call it Paradise -- an inner-city danger zone, starved of resources, starved of hope; run-down housing, run-down lives. Then a miracle happens. A dying boy is healed by the touch of a charismatic young man. And that's only the beginning. Richard...

  • Three Twins at the Crater School

    Mars, the Red Planet, farthest flung outpost of the British Empire. Under the benevolent reign of the Empress Eternal, commerce and culture are flourishing along the banks of the great canals, and around the shores of the crater lakes. But this brave...

  • Everything in All the Wrong Order

    For more than thirty years, Chaz Brenchley has been one of Great Britain's most distinguished—and uncategorizable—writers of speculative fiction. His award-winning short stories move with deceptive ease from one genre to another, offeri...

  • The Station of the Twelfth

    A new Tor.com Original: a space opera short story from sci-fi author Chaz Brenchley. In this Martian city, each stop along the monorail has a purpose behind its namesake. However, none are quite like the Station of the Twelfth, and if you decide to v...

  • Dust Up at the Crater School

    Christmas is coming to the Crater School, so the girls must celebrate. So says the Earth calendar. But Mars does not respect school rules. Nor does the Red Planet have much respect for Earth weather. Why bother with a white Christmas when Martian wea...

  • Dispossession

    • / Thriller
    • Buy Buy

    Jonathan wakes up in hospital and is told he has been involved in a car crash. He doesn''t remember the last three months, and the doctors say he''s only been there three days. He also doesn''t remember the woman by his bedside who says she is his...

  • The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 2

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    An unabridged collection spotlighting the best space operas, alternate histories, and time travel stories published in 2021 by current and emerging masters of the science fiction genre, edited by Allan Kaster.The Station of the Twelfth by Chaz Brench...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chaz Brenchley has published 28 books.

Chaz Brenchley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dust Up at the Crater School, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Chaz Brenchley, The Samaritan, was published in August 1988.

Yes. Chaz Brenchley has 3 series.
Author Series
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe