Claire North

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2014
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Gameshouse

1 - The Serpent (Nov-2015)
2 - The Thief (Nov-2015)
3 - The Master (Nov-2015)

Penelope of Ithaca

1 - Ithaca (Sep-2022)
2 - House of Odysseus (Aug-2023)
3 - The Last Song of Penelope (Jun-2024)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIME. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he ha...

  • Touch

    Your violent death usually triggers the first switch. Just before your life ebbs away, your skin happens to touch another human being -- and in an instant, your consciousness transfers completely to the person you touched. From that moment on, you...

  • The Master

    Gameshouse - 3

    The Gameshouse is an unusual institution. Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that s...

  • The Serpent

    Gameshouse - 1

    In seventeenth century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse. There fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon, and every other game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be in...

  • The Thief

    Gameshouse - 2

    The Gameshouse is an unusual institution. Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon-every game under the sun. But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that some games...

  • The Sudden Appearance of Hope

    My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before-a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at...

  • The End of the Day

    At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Cha...

  • 84k

    From one of the most powerful writers in modern fiction and World Fantasy Award winner comes a dystopian vision of a world where money reigns supreme, and nothing is so precious that it can't be bought.... The penalty for Dani Cumali's murder: £8...

  • The Pursuit of William Abbey

    A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William ...



  • Sweet Harmony

    From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K, a darkly inventive novella about the dangers of pursuing perfection. Harmony is tired. Tired of working so hard, tired of the way she looks, tired of...

  • Notes from the Burning Age

    From the award-winning author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August comes a story exploring humankind’s ability to change the paths we seem fated to follow -- even after the world has burned. Once, we lived...

  • Ithaca

    Penelope of Ithaca - 1

    This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women -- and their goddesses -...

  • House of Odysseus

    Penelope of Ithaca - 2

    This "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining from the award-winning author of the Penelope trilogy breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men (Jennifer Saint). On the isle of...

  • The Last Song of Penelope

    Penelope of Ithaca - 3

    The third book in award'winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining (Jennifer Saint) that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world r...

  • Slow Gods

    "An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.”  -- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of TimeSlow Gods is the galaxy-spanning tale ​of one man's im...

Award-Winning Books by Claire North

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Claire North has published 15 books.

The next book by Claire North, Slow Gods, will be published in November 2025.

The first book by Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, was published in April 2014.

Yes. Claire North has 2 series.
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