Mary Gentle

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1986
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Book of Ash

1 - A Secret History (Oct-1999)
2 - Carthage Ascendant (Feb-2000)
3 - The Wild Machines (Aug-2000)
4 - Lost Burgundy (Dec-2000)

Ilario

1 - The Lion's Eye (Jul-2007)
2 - The Stone Golem (Sep-2007)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Hawk in Silver

    Teenaged Holly finds a strange coin which leads her and her friend Chris into strange adventures with the magical people of the Hollow Hills....

  • Ancient Light

    This gracefully written sequel to Golden Witchbreed powerfully depicts the impact of a high-technology civilization on a decaying planet. Ten years after having served as Earth's first envoy to Orthe, which is struggling to survive after a planetwide...

  • Golden Witchbreed

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Orthe - half-civilized, half-barbaric, home to human-like beings who live and die by the code of the sword. Earth envoy Lynne Christie has been sent here to establish contact and to determine whether this is a world worth developing. But first Christ...

  • Rats and Gargoyles

    It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling ques...

  • Grunts!: A Fantasy With Attitude

    WHAT IS AN ORC? An orc is a fire plug of a fighting machine made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humor. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt--the much abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of...

  • Villains!

  • The Architecture of Desire

    Mercenaries in lace and steel roam the countryside and the heads of criminals are impaled on London Bridge. The characters' relationships are played out in the shadow of the hangman's rope. Sequel to Rats and Gargoyles....

  • A Secret History

    Book of Ash - 1

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe--opulent and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world. In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born ...

  • Carthage Ascendant

    Book of Ash - 2

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash. ...



  • The Wild Machines

    Book of Ash - 3

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD In an unremembered past of savagery, magic, and miracles, one figure blazed liked a fiery comet across the blood soaked fields of Europe and North Africa--a fierce combatant and brilliant strategist name...

  • Lost Burgundy

    Book of Ash - 4

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a barbarous age in a world now forgotten, an extraordinary figure stood formidable on the European battlefield--a remarkable female warrior and strategist without equal... save one. Dijon, the o...

  • The Logistics of Carthage

    in Worlds That Weren't

    In this collection of original novellas, four award-winning masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been by traversing Worlds That Weren't. Under the influence of the phil...

  • A Sundial in a Grave: 1610

    "It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness." Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Alexander Dumas. The year is 1610. Continental Europe ...

  • The Lion's Eye

    Ilario - 1

    Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence sh...

  • The Stone Golem

    Ilario - 2

    Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King's Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated alliance wi...

  • Grunts

    What is an orc?An orc is an 18 stone fighting machine, made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humour. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt - the much abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of Dar...

  • The Black Opera

    Naples, the 19th Century. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, holy music has power. Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick or raising the dead. But some believe that the musicodramma ...

  • Ilario

    Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence sh...

  • Ash

    For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulde...



  • Cartomancy

    Mary Gentle is one of Britain's most outstanding writers of imaginative fiction, able to move seamlessly from science fiction to fantasy within the same story. Following on from the success of ASH, 1610: A SUNDIAL IN A GRAVE and the omnibus volumes W...

  • The Landing

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Gentle has published 21 books.

Mary Gentle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Landing, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Mary Gentle, Hawk in Silver, was published in April 1986.

Yes. Mary Gentle has 2 series.
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