Frank Tayell

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    London (October 2013)
  • Latest Book:
    An Imperfect Utopia (October 2025)
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Full Series List in Order

Brawl of the Worlds

1 - First Contact (Sep-2022)
2 - Wish You Were Here (Instead of Me) (Jun-2023)

Strike a Match

1 - Serious Crimes (Nov-2015)
2 - Counterfeit Conspiracy (Jan-2016)
3 - Endangered Nation (Nov-2017)
4 - Over By Christmas (Aug-2021)
5 - Thin Ice (May-2022)

Surviving The Evacuation

0.5 - Zombies vs The Living Dead (Jul-2014)
1 - London (Oct-2013)
2 - Wasteland (Feb-2014)
3 - Family: & Zombies Vs the Living Dead (Jun-2014)
4 - Unsafe Haven (Dec-2014)
5 - Reunion (Apr-2015)
6 - Harvest (Jul-2015)
7 - Home (Aug-2015)
8 - Anglesey (Oct-2016)
9 - Ireland (Feb-2017)
10 - The Last Candidate (May-2017)
11 - Search and Rescue (Aug-2017)
12 - Britain's End (Jan-2018)
13 - Future's Beginning (May-2018)
14 - Mort Vivant (Aug-2018)
15 - Where There's Hope (Dec-2018)
16 - Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests (Jul-2019)
17 - There We Stood (Jan-2020)
18 - Rebuilt in a Day (Jan-2021)
19 - Welcome to the End of the Earth (Feb-2022)
20 - Small Cogs in the Survival Machine (Mar-2023)

Surviving the Evacuation: Here We Stand

1 - Infected (Apr-2016)
2 - Divided (Jun-2016)

Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On

1 - Outback Outbreak (Apr-2019)
2 - No More News (May-2020)
3 - While the Lights Are On (Aug-2020)
4 - If Not Us (May-2021)
5 - No Turning Back (Nov-2021)

Books in Order: 43 titles

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  • An Imperfect Utopia

    As a new nation is born, a second apocalypse looms.Water, shelter, food. Those three words have come to consume Kim Wright's life as she takes charge of for the returning evacuees. Three simple words that encompass so much. Fields have to be cleared,...

  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 23

    Was anyone else alive?With each kilometre travelled, Maggs Espoir is increasingly certain the answer is no. In the aftermath of the outbreak, most people barricaded their homes or fled to somewhere remote. Maggs and her husband, Etienne, went to work...

  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 22

  • Letters from Yesterday

    Nova Scotia has been abandoned. New York has fallen. The war for the Americas has begun.Bill Wright's final evacuation is underway. A route to the bastions in the Pacific Northwest has been mapped out. Supply dumps have been created, and the first ba...

  • Our Home, Too

    A murderer stalks the post-apocalyptic wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.A year after the outbreak and nuclear war, the planet is teetering on the edge of environmental collapse. Across the entire Northern Hemisphere, very few survived. Fourteen th...

  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 21

  • Wish You Were Here (Instead of Me)

    Brawl of the Worlds - 2

    October 2022, eight weeks after first contact, the people of Earth are handling the news of extra-terrestrial life rather well. Sure, there'd been some petty rioting, light stockpiling, and hasty coups, but not more so than during the pandemic.In Oxf...

  • Small Cogs in the Survival Machine

    Surviving The Evacuation - 20

    The final evacuation begins.A year and a half after the collapse of civilisation, pirates plague the Atlantic, the Saint Lawrence River is a radioactive dead-zone, and the forests of Quebec are succumbing to disease. With insufficient supplies to las...

  • First Contact

    Brawl of the Worlds - 1

    If first contact took place today, how would the world react?For the alien towani, Earth is a holy site where their Last Prophecy will be fulfilled. They will do anything to protect the planet. Protecting humanity is an optional extra.In 1888, fleein...



  • Thin Ice

    Strike a Match - 5

    Twenty years after the apocalyptic Blackout, steam-trains and the telegraph have replaced smartphones and satellites, but while some still fear technology, many dream of its return.In France, winter has brought the terrorist insurgency to a frozen st...

  • Welcome to the End of the Earth

    Surviving The Evacuation - 19

    Fourteen months after the outbreak, thirteen months after the nuclear war, the old world is gone, but a new world is emerging. The evacuation of Britain failed, but other evacuations were a success. In Canberra, a new civilisation is being born, but ...

  • No Turning Back

    Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On - 5

    In a post-apocalyptic world where food is treasure, pirates will kill for a meal.A month after the nuclear war ended, Commissioner Qwong and her crew of scientists and soldiers head north. Following a clue found in the logbook of a sinking ship, they...

  • Over By Christmas

    Strike a Match - 4

    Two deaths could be an accident. Three must be murder.2039, twenty years after the AIs went to war, plague and famine has reduced the global population to a hundred million. Most of the planet is a wasteland, with only a handful of enclave-nations pr...

  • If Not Us

    Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On - 4

    If not us, who? If not now, when? As the much-depleted United Nations meets in Canberra, the scale of the global catastrophe becomes clear. The tsunami left Brisbane a flooded ruin. Vanuatu has disappeared. The Madagascan evacuation has failed. Vanco...

  • Rebuilt in a Day

    Surviving The Evacuation - 18

    It took three weeks to destroy civilisation. It won't be rebuilt in a day.A year after the outbreak, a sharp winter is followed by a sudden thaw. Spring has come early to Nova Scotia, bringing new hope. For the thirteen thousand survivors who've foun...

  • While the Lights Are On

    Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On - 3

    Save Australia, Save the World.Three weeks after the outbreak, most nations have collapsed. An ever-increasing number of refugees flee, by boat and air, to the perceived safety of the remote Pacific nations. In Australia, every able body is conscript...

  • Surviving the Evacuation

    Though the apocalypse has begun, the reckoning is still to come.When Pete Guinn went to Australia to find his missing sister, he left behind the woman he loved. In the city he once called home, panic and chaos arrive long before the living dead. As S...

  • No More News

    Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On - 2

    Though the apocalypse has begun, the reckoning is still to come.When Pete Guinn went to Australia to find his missing sister, he left behind the woman he loved. In the city he once called home, panic and chaos arrive long before the living dead. As S...

  • There We Stood

    Surviving The Evacuation - 17

    As one year ends, and our old world fades into memory, a new future is born. On a frozen archipelago, where it is too cold to farm, a few thousand survivors from across the Atlantic have found a refuge. The arduous process of turning a sanctuary int...



  • Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests

    Surviving The Evacuation - 16

    The battle might be lost, but the war isn’t over.

    Once it was home to half a billion people. A year after the nuclear war, Europe is a radioactive, storm-ravaged wasteland through which a hundred million undead inexorably march. In their wa...

  • Outback Outbreak

    Surviving the Evacuation: Life Goes On - 1

    The outbreak changed everything, but there are some bonds even the undead can’t break.It’s been six years since Pete Guinn last saw his sister, Corrie. He always hoped to see her again, but feared she was dead. When an elusive billionaire reveals...

  • Where There's Hope

    Surviving The Evacuation - 15

    There is always hope.Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won’t stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking a way across the Channel, they make for the coas...

  • Mort Vivant

    Surviving The Evacuation - 14

    Not all people died. Not all gave up hope.The outbreak was in February. By the end of November, Earth has become a hellish wasteland ravaged by the undead.Survivors from across the Atlantic seaboard took refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Beset ...

  • Future's Beginning

    Surviving The Evacuation - 13

    For good or ill, the future has begun.

    After the outbreak came the nuclear war. The blasts killed millions. Chaos followed. Most of those unlucky enough not to succumb to starvation and disease joined the ranks of the living dead. Fleeing the imp...

  • Britain's End

    Surviving The Evacuation - 12

    Anglesey became a refuge for survivors from across the world, but living in the shadow of a decrepit nuclear power station was always a precarious existence. There is only one destination for their final exodus from Britain, but Belfast won’t becom...

  • Endangered Nation

    Strike a Match - 3

    In 2019, the AIs went to war. Three days later, hundreds of nuclear missiles were launched. The electromagnetic pulse destroyed the machines, but the radiation and ensuing famine nearly destroyed humanity. By 2039, civilisation had regressed to the a...

  • Search and Rescue

    Surviving The Evacuation - 11

    Not all survivors are to be trusted. Not all the conspirators are dead. February: Within hours of the outbreak, the quarantine was sabotaged. Within days, the world was gripped by civil war. March: When the lights finally went out, billions were dead...

  • The Last Candidate

    Surviving The Evacuation - 10

    Whoever wins the election, humanity will lose. Nine months after the outbreak, ten thousand survivors from across the globe have found a refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Hordes of the undead ravage the wastelands of Britain and Ireland. Satell...

  • Ireland

    Surviving The Evacuation - 9

    Within a few minutes of the outbreak, Manhattan was overrun by the living dead. Within a few days, the undead had reached every corner of the globe. Ireland was no exception. There was no evacuation of Northern Ireland, and no quarantine in the Repub...



  • Anglesey

    Surviving The Evacuation - 8

    Trapped. Alone. Unconcerned. Eight months after the outbreak, Bill Wright is trapped during a survey mission in Ireland. Surrounded by the undead, low on food and lower on water, he’s been in this situation before. Unlike before, help is only a rif...

  • Divided

    Surviving the Evacuation: Here We Stand - 2

    It is a week since the outbreak began in New York. The president has been betrayed. The vice-president is dead. The government has collapsed. The conspirators are close to victory. Having narrowly escaped agents of the cabal, Tom Clemens heads to Was...

  • Infected

    Surviving the Evacuation: Here We Stand - 1

    Would you try to save the world? There is an evil cabal at the heart of government. For years it has bribed, blackmailed, and murdered in pursuit of global domination. In an attempt to destroy it, Tom Clemens rigged the presidential election. His can...

  • Counterfeit Conspiracy

    Strike a Match - 2

    In 2019, the AIs went to war. Millions died before a nuclear holocaust brought an end to their brief reign of terror. Billions more succumbed to radiation poisoning, disease, and the chaotic violence of that apocalypse. Some survived. They rebuilt. T...

  • Serious Crimes

    Strike a Match - 1

    Even after the apocalypse, crimes must be solved.
    Strike A Match They called them Artificial Intelligences. Sentient viruses were closer to the truth. They spread throughout the world until every networked circuit was infected. Then they went to ...

  • Home

    Surviving The Evacuation - 7

    In an undead world, zombies aren’t the greatest threat.
    The outbreak began in February. Nations went to war. Governments collapsed. Billions died in the chaos and anarchy that followed. Billions more were infected. They died. They came back. <...

  • Harvest

    Surviving The Evacuation - 6

    A castle can be made safe from the undead, but not from the people inside the walls.

    It is seven months since the outbreak. In the anarchy and chaos that came with the undead, civilisation was destroyed. In the wars that followed, the planet...

  • Reunion

    Surviving The Evacuation - 5

    Surviving is easy. It’s the next part, living, that’s hard.

    Zombies. It is seven months since the outbreak. The world is in ruins. Britain is a radioactive wasteland peopled by the undead. The few survivors cling to the hope that they mi...

  • Unsafe Haven

    Surviving The Evacuation - 4

    “There are no reported outbreaks in the UK or Ireland.” That is what the government broadcast. Nilda didn’t believe it. Not trusting the authorities, she, and her son, Jay, stay behind when Penrith is evacuated.
    Vindicated when she learns ...

  • Work. Rest. Repeat.

    Work. Rest. Repeat. That is all the last remnant of humanity knows. During the wars of The Great Disaster, people took shelter within the towered cities hoping that, one day, the Earth would become habitable once more. Sixty years later, only three c...



  • Zombies vs The Living Dead

    Surviving The Evacuation - 0.5

    No one is safe from the undead.

    The outbreak began in New York. Within days it had spread throughout the world. No one is safe from the undead.As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was quarantined. The press was nation...

  • Family: & Zombies Vs the Living Dead

    Surviving The Evacuation - 3

    Book 3: Family The undead rose. Nations collapsed. Some people survived.
    Three months after escaping from London, Bill discovers the true extent of the global war that followed the outbreak. Most of the world has been destroyed, but though ruined...

  • Wasteland

    Surviving The Evacuation - 2

    Billions died during the global civil war that followed the outbreak. Anarchy took grip. Chaos ruled. The world collapsed. In Britain, the evacuation failed. Nowhere is safe from the undead.
    Three months after the outbreak, Bill Wright has found ...

  • London

    Surviving The Evacuation - 1

    The outbreak started in New York. Within days the infection had spread to every corner of the world. Nowhere is safe from the undead... Bill watched from his window as London was evacuated. His leg broken, he is unable to join the exodus. Turning to ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Tayell has published 43 books.

Frank Tayell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Imperfect Utopia, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Frank Tayell, London, was published in October 2013.

Yes. Frank Tayell has 5 series.
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