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  • Bibliography:
    117 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2013
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 117 titles



  • On occasional Saturday nights, selected clients of Sarah Joy's salon convene for haircuts and socializing. One evening, a shotgun pressed against Sarah's forehead changes their little paradise forever....



  • Jane and Heather are finally ready to start filming their extra-dimensional documentary. There’s only one problem: their guide, Gardt, is so ridiculous looking that he completely ruins the credibility of any shot he’s in. It might be time for Jan...



  • Shauna. Charlotte. Mildred. Three schoolgirl sleuths. Jack. Linton. Sonny. Three schoolboy investigators. Tackleford. One mid-sized city with a history of countless mysteries. Is there enough room at Griswalds Grammar School for two groups of kid det...




    • Everyone's favorite pre-teen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing and rumors of a large, beast-like creature roaming the woods, Tackleford is in serious danger. And then there's Mildred's new dog Archibald...



  • Everyone's favorite preteen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing and rumors of a large, beast-like creature roaming the woods, Tackleford is in serious danger. And then there's Mildred's new dog Archibald... if you...



  • The Tackleford gang is back with a new case that demands solving! When Tackleford's derelict barns begin going up in flames, Linton and Sonny are on the case with a moderately mysterious new friend. Paths cross, however, when Lottie and Mildred meet ...



  • When Freshers' Flu strikes the dorm, no one gets off easy. Daisy enters a one-sided relationship with an off-brand Polish cold cure given to her by Ed Gemmell, Susan is forced into nicotine withdrawal, and Esther becomes incapable of distinguishing f...



  • Following a night of "mild abandon," Esther finds herself singled out by the vile collegiate man-site Laddzone. When the university authorities are less than helpful, she vows to take down this cyber institution!...






  • Are drugs good, bad, or indifferent? Daisy is going to discover the truth for herself when she makes friends with the very fun Erin, who gives her some "fun" pills. Unfortunately, Daisy's Granny decides it's the perfect time for a surprise visit, and...



  • During a pre-Christmas ball, Daisy kisses a boy she shouldn't have, while Susan may have done more than that with McGraw. Esther dreads going home for holiday break for fear of running into her ex....



  • As everyone buckles down for exams, we get a good look into Susan's mysterious past....



  • A new school year brings a new classmate to Griswald's Grammar School! But he's a bit strange, and he really, really likes onions. When the whole school suddenly becomes best friends with him, Shauna seems to be the only one left out. It's up to her ...



  • It's time for end-of-semester exams, but Esther was "too busy living" to attend most of her lectures and it's up to Daisy and Susan to help her prepare. Meanwhile, Susan goes through the schmoopy romantic phase of a new relationship....



  • A brutal winter hits Sheffield, but things heat up when Esther has a fling with a faculty member! Daisy probably has a Friday Night Lights reference for this occasion......



  • What’s to Love: If you’re loving the comics being released under the BOOM! Box imprint, delve into a world of more of the same stories! From the wacky to the touching, you’ll never know what you’re going to get. Here’s a hint: brand-new Lum...



  • Ed attempts to get over his crush on Esther by working at the student paper, but stumbles into even more embarrassing romantic difficulty....



  • Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing b...



  • Esther's old school friend "Big Lindsay" comes to visit with her baby, but watching the kid and being nice to the insatiable party girl begins to wear on everyone....






  • Now an ongoing series! It's Susan's birthday and she receives the greatest gift at all: it's time for the medical students to start cutting up cadavers....



  • In an effort to lift the spirits of her dear friends, Daisy takes the girls camping....



  • The new year brings the all the joys and near-drownings of young love in The Case of the Fire Inside, the latest volume of Bad Machinery!  Sonny meets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself, while Mildred falls for...



  • Daisy visits Esther's hometown to convince her to come back to University, while Susan spends her Easter break far away from her Northampton problems....



  • Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life, But in the face of hand-wringing boys, “personal experimentation,” holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted in...



  • Esther, Susan, and Daisy start the search for a house to rent for their second year quite late, so their options leave a lot to be desired....




  • Daisy has to draw on new reserves of inner strength after she loses control of a party of prospective students on an open day, while the "lonely, unlovable spinster" Susan tries dating again with disastrous results....



  • McGraw's new girlfriend is the Anti-Susan, Esther and Ed get into hot water with a money-making scheme, and Daisy has trouble with a professor on an archaeological dig....



  • The big end-of-year ball is approaching and Daisy is determined to kiss a girl, while Susan and Esther prepare for a summer of difficulty....






  • Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing b...



  • After spending a dull summer apart, Esther, Daisy, and Susan attend a 3-day music festival that naturally ends in a battle for survival in an apocalyptic quagmire....



  • What if Susan, Esther, and Daisy hadn't become friends on their first day of university?? The world as we know it would be completely different! Or at least...moderately different! It's the darkest timeline for our favorite students. Daisy is an Enya...



  • School is out for summer, and for the Tackleford mystery team, that means lazy days, balmy evenings, and... creeping existential dread that threatens the whole city. With half the team gallivanting off to exotic locales (like Aunty Kath's in Margate)...



  • The second year begins! When Esther, Daisy and Susan discover that every piece of furniture in their new home was destroyed by the previous occupants, they head to IKEA, where things get complicated....



  • Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life. The girls, along with their male hall-mates, Ed and McGraw find that college is more than academics and bad microwavable meals. A...



  • The next-door neighbor calls the police on what may be the most sedate dinner party of all time, causing Susan to deliver a furious and extremely unkind - but totally justified - opinion on the matter....



  • It's springtime at Sheffield University. Will Susan, Esther, and Daisy make it to summer?It's springtime at Sheffield University -- the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and fast-pals Susan, Esther and Daisy continue to survive their fresh...



  • Time is a fickle creature, especially when there's wormhole in the science cupboard. When a strange boy who seems far too entranced by cell phones appears, it's up to Lottie, Shauna, and Mildred to figure out his strange purposes. The Case of the For...



  • Time is a fickle creature, especially when there's wormhole in the science cupboard. When a strange boy who seems far too entranced by cell phones appears, it's up to Lottie, Shauna, and Mildred to figure out his strange purposes. The Case of the For...






  • Esther gets caught up in the influence of a "super-woke" colleague, and Susan grows frustrated with Ingrid's presence in their home....



  • Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.Their freshman year is finally coming to a close and Daisy, Susan, and Esther say goodbye to Catterick Hall foreve...



  • Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, th...



  • McGraw puts faith in his and Daisy's "unique understanding" while trying to deal with the fact he is a low down double-dealing dirty cheat whose name is now mud in the influential Spanish community....



  • Esther, Susan, and Daisy have moved into their beautiful new house off campus, but the new living situation creates new challenges for the girls.Second year begins and Daisy, Susan, and Esther have taken their friendship commitment to the next level ...



  • Hit play on a collection of short comics that embody the BOOM! Box aesthetic, an eclectic mix of jubilant tales from off the beaten track.From the beginning, BOOM! Box has had one mission in mind - to bring original, unconventional characters and st...



  • Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.University is a time to learn for most, but for Susan, Esther, and Daisy academia seems to be throwing more at the...



  • With the prospect of living apart for the first time since they all met as first years just over the horizon, Daisy, Esther, and Susan spend their last summer together before beginning their third year of university....



  • Heading into their third year at university, Esther, Daisy, and Susan are living apart from each other for the first time, and it’s definitely going to be absolutely fine and not weird at all....



  • The second year at Griswalds Grammar brings new challenges, new socks, and a mysterious new classmate for Tackleford's mystery-crazed children. Who is this secretive character? What is the acrid aroma that accompanies him wherever he goes? And why w...






  • Six kids navigate the treacherous waters of school & adolescence while also solving strange mysteries around their English town. The new year brings the all the joys and near-drownings of young love in The Case of the Fire Inside, the fifth volume o...



  • Fast friends Susan, Daisy, and Esther continue their second year at Sheffield University. Education and looking ahead to the future isn’t all that college holds in store for these ladies -- grocery store protests, family reunions, and even an MMORP...



  • After meeting a friendly new face in the alternate dimension they’ve stumbled upon, Heather (eagerly) and Jane (reluctantly) agree to venture further in. With their trusty camcorder to record what they find and an inhuman new buddy, there’s no tu...



  • When it seems are though Heather and Jane may be trapped in the alternate dimension, Barney has no choice but to consult Heather’s dad Chip for some wisdom in repairing the portal. Standard dad stuff....



  • It’s the end of second year for best mates Susan, Daisy, and Esther, and cracks are appearing in the foundation of this unshakeable trio. Between (irritating) new loves, (secretive) old loves, (unlikely) new friendships and (terrible) old houses, t...



  • Head back to school with Esther, Susan, and Daisy in this collection of shorts and bonus material from Eisner-nominated series Giant Days.Featuring “universally beloved” terror Desmond Fishmen, the magic of London at Christmastime, off-beat musi...



  • One year after their graduation from university, Esther De Groot and Daisy Wooten are back in Sheffield for a reunion with Susan and McGraw.The year apart has not been easy for all of them, and this reunion will only draw out the secrets they have al...



  • The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor is the sixth, pocket-sized book in John Allison's award-winning Bad Machinery series.School is out for summer, and for the Tackleford mystery team, that means lazy days, balmy evenings, and... creeping existential dr...



  • Attempting to raise funds for Christmas presents, Daisy and Ed Gemmell take a job at a “Winter Village” that turns out to be a borderline-illegal shambles. Can Daisy save Christmas? Or should she just go home?...



  • Upon coming back home, Jane and Heather are thrilled to find that this time, their footage of the Otherworld is GROUNDBREAKING. Greatness is on the horizon, as soon as they can get through the hardest part -- editing....



  • Esther becomes fixated on Valentine’s Day as a marker of her romantic failure, and decides to fully activate her drama field for the first time in a long time, in an attempt to “Win Big At Love”. It’s going to be great. No, really....



  • Finishing up their first year and heading into the summer, things are only getting stranger for Esther, Susan, and Daisy!Summer term is starting, and Daisy, Esther, and Susan have nearly made it out of their first year alive. McGraw has a new girlfri...



  • All footage from the other side of the Portal has been stolen! When when the thief auctions off information to the wrong bidder, it might be up to Jane and Heather to save him -- reluctantly....



  • Ed and his girlfriend Nina may have bonded over bone breaks and PT, but now that the casts are off, Nina is going back to her partying ways -- making Ed wonder if he ever knew her at all....



  • Take a trip through the past in these rare Giant Days stories, to learn the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan’s friendship, and see them embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society devoted to Black Met...



  • A creature from beyond the Eidolon has gotten loose in Spectrum, and it’s up to Chip, Heather and Jane to search it out and pest-control it. And if they can survive a literal blood-sucking monster, maybe they’ll be able to hunt down the thief who...



  • A thief is targeting the Dark Nebula comic book shop where Esther works, and it’s up to Susan to put her amateur detective skills to work… emphasis on amateur....



  • There’s only one person on earth who knows the secrets of Charlesco: Jane and Barney’s boss, Langdon Gramercy. To get to the bottom of what’s going on in Spectrum, they plan to ply him with wine and crack open the vault of secrets....



  • It’s time for Daisy to get her driver’s license, but she may not really be a natural behind the wheel. Can she overcome her nerves to become the ultimate motorist, and (for everyone’s safety) should she be allowed to?...



  • It’s the end of second year, and everything is happening so fast! Moving out, breaking up, breaking hearts, breaking…bones? Best-Mates-for-Life Esther, Daisy, and Susan had better hold on tight if they want to make it to their third year, never m...



  • It’s time to uncover the truth of what really happened to old Chet Charles, how the Eidolon was created …and what it has to do with Jane’s parents....



  • Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum is a boomtown that’s long since stopped booming, with nothing to show for its former glory but the abandoned Charleswood Estate, its dwindling sprocket millions, and the ...



  • Susan and McGraw attend his brother’s wedding, and we meet the family that put the iron backbone in Giant Days’ most moustached male....



  • Heather, Jane, and their increasingly improbable team come face to face with the terrible truth of Spectrum -- and with the people who are responsible for it all!...



  • It’s time for Esther to finish her final dissertation on “The Liminal Spaces Of The Great American Novel 1959-1980” but when inspiration dries up, she heads home to Tackleford for Easter. It’s not America, and it’s not 1959, but her now des...



  • Jane and Heather confront Chet Charles, the mysterious inventor thought missing for over a decade! All that remains is to discover the sort of thing that could drive you crazy enough to want to live inside a mountain for twenty years and pretend to b...



  • In times of a disastrous norovirus outbreak in McGraw’s for-fun cricket team, Susan, Esther, and Daisy are called upon to defend McGraw’s sportly honor. Taking up the bats of his fallen mates and donning their cricket whites, it’s a sporting ad...



  • Back in the real world, Jane has to choose between exposing the Otherworld, and not showing her film...after all the blood, sweat, and tears she’s poured into it. Her future, or a whole world?...



  • When McGraw’s father dies unexpectedly, the small friend group is shaken. Susan struggles to be there for McGraw, but his usual stoicism has turned into a solid wall. With McGraw at home and Susan in their empty apartment alone, Esther and Daisy ha...



  • The final year of university is about to start for best mates Daisy, Esther, and Susan, and everything is going completely off the rails. From finding somewhere to live at the last minute, to broken bones, to the looming terror of the adult world, th...



  • Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows have been to the other side...and now it’s just a question of how to bring proof back home with them. And then there’s the question of how the portal got there in the first place...and whether or not the town of...



  • In a follow-up to Holiday Special 2017, Esther goes for a job interview in London and reunites with her old friend Shelley Winters. While Esther covets Shelley’s metropolitan existence, Shelley is already tired of the rat race and her high pressure...



  • From the bestselling author of Giant Days comes the latest pocket-sized volume in his beloved Bad Machinery series! It's that classic feud: mods versus rockers! As the boys get caught up in the allure of mod culture (the scooters! the hair! the fash...



  • Final exams, final friendship times, and some final goodbyes for Daisy, Esther, and Susan before the summer term wraps up, and it’s suddenly time to say goodbye to Sheffield!...



  • Summer is ending, and so are Daisy and Esther’s days at university (Susan still needs to finish medical school, of course). These last days together are worth their weight in gold, but soon it will be time for pomp, circumstance, and silly hats, as...



  • A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. Two women with wildly different worldviews become unlikely friends as they navigate the supernatural happenings in a sleepy coastal parish -- and soon find themselves forced to choos...



  • It’s Daisy, Esther and Susan’s third year at university, and with that comes new beaus, new jobs, and new adventures.The end of university is upon BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan! Between Halloween run-ins with Daisy’s dreaded (dreadful) ex, par...



  • A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. Renewable energy, imperiled birds, and a crowd of NIMBYs converge at the heart of this parish's latest crisis as curate Billie and Church of Satan priestess Maggie battle with divine...



  • A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. The start of autumn brings more than changing leaves: it also brings Witchfest, where the coastal parish Tredregyn is beset by a horde of festive witches celebrating the equinox -- a...



  • Bad Machinery is back with all-new drama for these British teens in the ninth volume of the award-winning series from the creator of Giant Days, John Allison. Shauna Wickle knows what she wants: top grades for a university scholarship, excellent fri...



  • THE SECRETS OF THE OTHERWORLD ARE REVEALED. It’s time to uncover the truth of what really happened to old Chet Charles, how the Eidolon was created…and what it has to do with Jane’s parents. But as Heather, Jane, and their increasingly improbab...



  • Bad Machinery is back with all-new drama for these British teens in the ninth volume of the award-winning series from the creator of Giant Days, John Allison. Shauna Wickle knows what she wants: top grades for a university scholarship, excel...





  • It’s never a quiet day at the University of Sheffield as best friends Esther, Susan and Daisy try do regular things like solving comic book shop capers, attending McGraw’s brother’s wedding, and Daisy learning to drive OH MY GOD WE’RE ALL DOO...



  • The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison and Max Sarin return to the world of Giant Days for a new series about everyone’s favorite child detective; Charlotte Grote. Nineteen year old Charlotte Grote has her whole life ahead of her; headed str...



  • The Eisner Award-winning team of John Allison (Scary Go-Round) and Max Sarin return to Sheffield for heartbreak, muscle aches, the very special pain of going corporate…and why the love of good friends is the secret to getting through it all. Collec...



  • A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas.Two women with wildly different worldviews become unlikely friends as they navigate the supernatural happenings in a sleepy coastal parish--and soon find themselves forced to choose s...



  • At the Savoy Hotel, in the aftermath of an attack on legendary detective Kendo Miyamoto, Lottie Grote finds herself the number one suspect in a potential muder investigation. There might be a way out, though, but only if she’s willing to make a dea...



  • GIANT DAYS ARE THE BEST DAYS OF ALL. Esther, Susan, and Daisy aren’t just BFFs, or the stars of the hit graphic novel series Giant Days which chronicles their humorous, tragic, adorable, and always memorable adventures as they survive the greates...



  • Left in legal limbo with a murder accusation hanging over her and with only her wits for protection, Lottie Grote is determined to show the coppers overseeing her that she can detect rings around them all… And maybe (hopefully) she’ll even be abl...



  • Lottie gets a new lead on her case -- aka the murder she was framed for -- but with her work at Scotland Yard consisting of photocopying and coffee runs, how will she find time to pursue the true criminal?...



  • Under house arrest, Lottie has started to make a few friends in the criminal lifestyle, and is even working on a new, exciting casino heist case with her police liaison...but has she lost sight of what really matters -- proving her own innocence?...



  • Return to Sheffield one last time as Daisy and Esther are about to graduate -- with Susan there to cheer them on! But it’s not over yet, because one year later Daisy and Susan must join forces to save Esther from the head girls who’re making her ...



  • With the attempted murder Lottie was framed for still under investigation, and the victim still in a coma, Lottie is running out of time to prove her innocence. And the police just enlisted Lottie for a sting operation at London’s best casino! Will...



  • From the bestselling author of Giant Days comes the final pocket-sized volume in his beloved Bad Machinery series! The mystery-solving teens of Tackleford are finding out that not every summer is a perfect one. Charlotte and Shauna, once inseparable...



  • The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison and Max Sarin return to the world of Giant Days for a new series about everyone’s favorite child detective; Charlotte Grote.NO GOOD DEED GOES UNHIRED The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison an...



  • A two-part continuation of John Allison's (Giant Days) new series Steeple!Former curate Billie has moved on to a new path . . . as a priestess in the Church of Satan. Meanwhile, her friend Maggie has made a similar switch--from Satanist to church-bou...



  • A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas from the creator of Giant Days! A new year begins in Tredregyn, and a Satanic ritual goes awry -- bringing the filming of a cozy TV detective drama to town. Unfortunately, this p...



  • This collection of short stories for young children introduces a small fluffy Shih Tzu called Max, who is searching for love and a forever home.One day a kind lady called Sally takes him to her heart, and his journey through life begins. The book con...



  • The first of seven sturdy hardcovers collecting the entirety of the Eisner Award-winning slice-of-life comic series!The school year is just beginning at Sheffield University, jam-packed with new classes, professors, and places to explore... not to me...



  • The second hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as your favorite characters move into the second half of their freshmen year!Spring is in the air at Sheffield University. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and c...



  • The third hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series following your favorite Uni students summer shenanigans!School’s out for summer at Sheffield University! First years no more (well, very nearly!) Esther, Daisy, and Susan h...



  • The fourth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as our favorite students dive into their second year... and relationships!The Holidays are coming and love is in the air at Sheffield University! While back home in Northampton ...



  • The fifth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as year two comes to a close!The end of the second year of university is right around the corner for best friends Daisy, Esther, and Susan at Sheffield University. Their glory da...



  • An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant Days’ John Allison and Max Sarin.When she enters her country’s most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle’s goal is to delight the judges, cha...



  • The sixth hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as the final year of Uni begins!Besties Susan, Esther, and Daisy are the big women on campus as they start their final year at Sheffield University. Between excelling academicall...



  • In the arms of the Gods - Greek Love StoriesThis collection of love stories delves into the hearts and minds of gods, nymphs, mortals, and heroes, who are all entwined in the intricate web of love. Each chapter explores a different love story from Gr...



  • The seventh hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as their Uni journey comes to a close!Graduation day is so close that Esther, Daisy, and Susan can almost taste it. It’s time to think about what they want to do when the...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Allison has published 117 books.

John Allison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Giant Days Library Edition Vol 7, was published in February 2024.

The first book by John Allison, Saturday Night at Sarah Joy's, was published in January 2013.

No. John Allison does not write books in series.