Niall Teasdale

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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2011
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Aneka Jansen

1 - Steel Beneath the Skin (Jun-2013)
2 - The Cold Steel Mind (Oct-2013)
3 - Steel Heart (Dec-2013)
4 - The Winter War (Feb-2014)
5 - The Greatest Heights of Honour (Apr-2014)
6 - The Lowest Depths of Shame (Oct-2014)
7 - Hope (Apr-2015)

Children of Zanar

1 - The Zanari Inheritance (Mar-2017)

Death's Handmaiden

1 - Death's Handmaiden (Jan-2020)
2 - Bitter Wind (Mar-2020)
3 - Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions (Jul-2020)
4 - Futures (Aug-2021)

Fox Meridian

1 - Fox Hunt (Sep-2015)
2 - Inescapable (Nov-2015)
3 - DeathWeb (Dec-2015)
4 - Criminal Minds (Mar-2016)
5 - Emergence (Jul-2016)
6 - The Ghost in the Doll (Aug-2016)
7 - Eden Burning (Aug-2017)
8 - Dominance (Nov-2017)
9 - The Hellas Find (Dec-2018)
10 - Dance with The Devil (Feb-2019)

Misfits

1 - Misfit Magic (May-2017)
2 - Misfit Witchcraft (Jul-2017)

Princeps Venator

1 - Hunter's Kiss (Feb-2016)
2 - Be My Valentine (Oct-2016)
3 - Blood Magic (Apr-2019)

Shil the Huntress

1 - The Eyes of the Huntress (Feb-2018)

Sondra Blake

1 - The Vanity Case (Jan-2018)

Tatsu Yamada

1 - Sign of the Dragon (Mar-2021)

Thaumatology

1 - Thaumatology 101 (Oct-2011)
2 - Demon's Moon (Nov-2011)
3 - Legacy (Dec-2011)
4 - Dragon's Blood (Feb-2012)
5 - Disturbia (Mar-2012)
6 - Hammer of Witches (May-2012)
7 - Eagle's Shadow (Jun-2012)
8 - Ancient (Aug-2012)
9 - Dragonfall (Dec-2012)
10 - The Other Side of Hell (Dec-2012)
11 - For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll (Mar-2013)
12 - Vengeance (Aug-2014)

The Twilight Empress

1 - The Iron Princess (May-2018)

Ultrahumans

1 - Ugly (Jun-2014)
2 - Shadows (May-2015)
3 - Hunting Mink (Apr-2016)
4 - Frostburn (Jun-2016)
5 - Guardian (Jul-2018)
6 - True Dark (Aug-2018)
7 - Liberty (Oct-2018)
8 - Royal Flush (Aug-2019)

Unobtainium

1 - Kate on a Hot Tin Roof (Feb-2015)
2 - King Solamet's Mines (Nov-2020)

Book List in Order: 70 titles

  • Thaumatology 101

    Thaumatology - 1

    Ceridwyn Brent had a fairly easy life, kept safe from the supernatural dangers of the world around her by the enchantments her parents placed on her when she was a baby. Then her parents died in a car accident leaving their daughter a well-protected ...

  • Demon's Moon

    Thaumatology - 2

    A PhD thesis on the metaphysical change process of were-creatures, what could possibly go wrong with that? Ceridwyn Brent, thaumatologist and sorceress, figured it was just a matter of getting a few friends together, putting them in the middle of a s...

  • Legacy

    Thaumatology - 3

    All Ceridwyn Brent wants is a normal life, well, as normal as it gets when you are the only living sorceress in the world, your lover is a half-succubus, and you have a werewolf for a mate. Work is keeping her busy enough; she is trying to capitalise...

  • Tales from High Towers' Study

    Five short stories of urban fantasy from the Thaumatology Universe.Bedtime Story: What kind of fairy tales what an incubus tell his half-human daughter at bedtime?Birthdays: On the wildest, most magical night of the year, Ceridwyn Brent has her birth...

  • Dragon's Blood

    Thaumatology - 4

    Ceridwyn Brent and her boss, Cheryl Tennant, are on a mission. Prove their thaumic power generation system works, provide almost limitless, clean electricity for Great Britain and the rest of the world, and maybe sort out their slightly overcomplicat...

  • Disturbia

    Thaumatology - 5

    As Ceridwyn Brent and her half-succubus lover, Lily Carpenter, begin a training course to become Special Advisors to the Metropolitan Police Force’s supernatural crimes division, the first of a series of mysterious deaths happens. A werewolf throws...

  • Tales from the Dubh Linn

    Six dark tales of urban fantasy set in the same universe as the Thaumatology series.Here can be found fae, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and demons, and the humans foolish enough to interact with them.Contains adult material, suitable for those of 1...

  • Hammer of Witches

    Thaumatology - 6

    Ceri Brent and Lily Carpenter, a sorceress and a half-succubus, are new to police work after becoming Special Advisors to the Greycoats, but when Ceri and her werewolf mate, Michael, find a charred corpse she finds herself frozen out of the investiga...

  • Eagle's Shadow

    Thaumatology - 7

    Ceridwyn Brent and Lily Carpenter are on top of the world as they attend the New Year Ball at the Chinese Embassy. Attending are the Prime Minister of Britain, the President of the United States, and Huanglong, the Chinese Imperial Dragon. It seems a...



  • Ancient

    Thaumatology - 8

    Ceridwyn Brent has invented a way of creating an artificial ley line and is planning to use it to generate free, clean electricity. To do that, however, she needs to start the line in an area of high magical energy and in Europe that means the German...

  • Dragonfall

    Thaumatology - 9

    Ceridwyn Brent and Cheryl Tennant are having a very busy year. There is the long-term project to build a ley line bringing energy from the German Rift to London where it will be converted into electricity to run the entire city. There is the annual T...

  • The Other Side of Hell

    Thaumatology - 10

    In the final battle with the dragons, Lily Carpenter sacrificed herself to save Ceridwyn Brent, and the world. There was not even a body to bury; she vanished in a blaze of light leaving Ceri to mourn her passing. Then a revelation suggests that Lily...

  • For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll

    Thaumatology - 11

    Twill had always had an enigmatic side. She seemed nothing more than a housekeeper, all be it a fairy one with secrets, but things are rarely as they seem. When dragons threatened her friends and the entire human world, Twill revealed herself as Glor...

  • Steel Beneath the Skin

    Aneka Jansen - 1

    The idea was simple enough for the alien race who took Aneka Jansen from Earth in 2011. Take a human, make her into a perfect tool to observe humanity from the inside, and so determine how best to advance this young race into their future. Unfortunat...

  • The Cold Steel Mind

    Aneka Jansen - 2

    Born in 20th Century England, Aneka Jansen had a life and career working as a security consultant until she was kidnapped by the Xinti and ended up in a wrecked starship, in suspended animation, in deep space for a millennium. Woken up by a team arch...

  • Steel Heart

    Aneka Jansen - 3

    As Aneka speeds toward Negral to discover the fate of the artificial intelligences who lived there, Ella finds herself in a colder environment, and in trouble. However, a chance discovery on a bio-weapons research site leads her to the location of Ol...

  • The Winter War

    Aneka Jansen - 4

    The Jenlay, Herosians, and Torem have lived in peace for almost five hundred and thirty years. The Lorenti Federation was founded specifically to stop anything like the Xinti War happening again and, through all that time, a woman named Winter has sa...

  • The Greatest Heights of Honour

    Aneka Jansen - 5

    Aneka Jansen, born on Earth in the twentieth century seems to have been revived after a thousand years of relative peace only to find herself in the middle of a war. As the Herosians manoeuver themselves into a better position for victory, their acti...

  • Ugly

    Ultrahumans - 1

    Penny Worthington was a very ordinary girl in a city where people did extraordinary things. Since the fifties the Ultrahumans have been making waves on both sides of the law, and Penny has watched from the side lines since she was a child. She has al...



  • Vengeance

    Thaumatology - 12

    Ceridwyn Brent has been through a lot in the past few years. She’s been kidnapped, assaulted, brainwashed, used to summon an army across dimensions, walked across an alien world to rescue her lover, and had to embody an ancient war goddess to save ...

  • The Lowest Depths of Shame

    Aneka Jansen - 6

    Aneka and Ella have secured the end of the Herosian War. The Herosians are in disarray, disorganised and vulnerable. It seems that it is just a matter of time until everything can return to something near normal. There are worlds to liberate, but the...

  • Kate on a Hot Tin Roof

    Unobtainium - 1

    Kate should not exist. The product of a mad scientist of great talent, she is the fusion of man and beast only made possible but the power of the Wonder Metal, Unobtainium.When Charles Barstow-Hall’s grandfather discovered Unobtainium in Scotland, ...

  • Hope

    Aneka Jansen - 7

  • Shadows

    Ultrahumans - 2

    Once upon a time, Andrea Morgan was a normal, everyday girl… Let’s start again. Once upon a time, Andrea Morgan was a fairly normal girl with quite remarkable reflexes, who could teleport from shadow to shadow. Then her brother was killed and she...

  • Reality Hack

    Reality: the state of things as they actually exist.Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one. â€" Albert Einstein.The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. â€" Paul Watzlawick.Not c...

  • Fox Hunt

    Fox Meridian - 1

    A spree killer with a purpose? A creative dispute taken to extremes? It’s up to Tara ‘Fox’ Meridian to untangle the mess before more people die.Fresh back from a training visit to Luna City on the Moon, Fox Meridian is called to the murder of t...

  • Inescapable

    Fox Meridian - 2

    Starting a new job is never easy, but taking up her new role as head of Palladium Security Solutions’ investigative department, Fox Meridian is left wondering whether she is really cut out for this one. Board meetings are boring, politics sets her...

  • DeathWeb

    Fox Meridian - 3

    A serial killer has murdered eleven people over the last four years, the link between the crimes unnoticed until Fox Meridian’s AI personal assistant, Kit, makes the connection. The only thing which seems to connect the victims is LifeFit, a plug-i...

  • Hunter's Kiss

    Princeps Venator - 1

    Michael Williams is no hero, he’s just a cop who works a lot of burglary cases, ended up in the wrong place at the right time, and now he’s known as the man who stopped the Harlem Vampire. Of course, vampires are a myth. Everyone knows that, espe...



  • Criminal Minds

    Fox Meridian - 4

    When Marie lands what seems to be the chance of a lifetime, starring in a new, rather low-budget, action movie based on the Whitechapel murders, she is thrilled. But when sex workers begin being murdered, their bodies mutilated in a chillingly famili...

  • Hunting Mink

    Ultrahumans - 3

    New Millennium City is in chaos. Gangs are fighting for territory, riots are breaking out, and Cygnus and Twilight have their hands full. But they are drawn away from their home town by the call of a fallen alien spaceship which may hold the secrets ...

  • Frostburn

    Ultrahumans - 4

    As New Millennium City tries to recover from a violent summer, a new rash of terrors hits the streets.An arsonist is at work in the more affluent areas of the city, destroying property and ensuring that people die in his fires. Fire Bug seeks the hel...

  • Emergence

    Fox Meridian - 5

    Emergence: noun. 1. The process of becoming visible after being concealed. 2. The process of coming into existence or prominence. 3. In philosophy, art, and systems theory, a process where complex systems can exhibit properties none of its constituen...

  • The Ghost in the Doll

    Fox Meridian - 6

    Fox has undergone a pretty big change in her life. For one thing, her batteries need charging each night, but her confidence has taken a hit too. When you’re questioning the choices you’ve made, a good way to start is at the beginning. Fox return...

  • Be My Valentine

    Princeps Venator - 2

    It’s Valentine’s Day and the people of New York City, alive and undead, are celebrating romantic love and overpriced roses, but for one young woman the evening is to end in death rather than romance.The Valentine Killer made his name in Los Angel...

  • Rebirth

    Annette Louise Barrington never wanted to be a hero, but she did want to help. She wanted to keep her city safe form those who wanted to bring it down. She wanted to follow in her brother’s footsteps, fight the good fight, even if her father would ...

  • The Zanari Inheritance

    Children of Zanar - 1

    Kaya Trevorny’s world came to an end in the student welfare office of Abertine University. The colony where she had grown up, her family, was gone, dead under circumstances the authorities seemed keen to hide. To find the truth, Kaya must team up w...

  • Misfit Magic

    Misfits - 1

    Once upon a time, a handsome prince met a beautiful princess and they fell in love. Everyone in the land of Draconia rejoiced, the prince and princess were married, they had a daughter who was pretty and wise, and they all lived happily ever after.Ye...

  • Misfit Witchcraft

    Misfits - 2

    There’s a new student at the Celestina School of Magic; a girl with a secret only. And it seems like only the misfits are willing to help her resolve it.Then a cryptic message from beyond the funeral pyre takes the girls to Tangleroots, a dense, da...



  • Eden Burning

    Fox Meridian - 7

    Artificial life is a hot-button topic in the summer of 2061. BioTek Microtechnologies have revealed Eve, the first real bioroid, and the rights of AIs and other infomorphs are on everyone’s mind, at least partially because MarTech now has the capab...

  • Dominance

    Fox Meridian - 8

    With the new private policing contracts coming in at the start of the 2062, Fox Meridian can finally relax and devote all her time to her new position as the terrorism liaison for Palladium Security Solutions. She may have no boyfriend and no life, b...

  • The Vanity Case

    Sondra Blake - 1

    In 1962, the Collapse happened and the world changed. Officer Sondra Blake of the NYPD went insane overnight and spent the next decade in a mental institution hastily set up to handle people like her, people afflicted by the magic which had suddenly ...

  • The Eyes of the Huntress

    Shil the Huntress - 1

    This is the story of Shil the Huntress, one of the most famous, effective, and deadly bounty hunters in the known galaxy. The great and the good celebrate her victories. Criminals dread the day they hear she is hunting them. But it was not always thu...

  • The Iron Princess

    The Twilight Empress - 1

    There are five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Thus has it been since before the physical and spirit worlds divided.There are five martial Forms inspired by the elements and humans have learned them, using them to defend themselves, fo...

  • Guardian

    Ultrahumans - 5

    New Millennium City is quiet. Cygnus and Twilight, the city’s protectors, have organised crime on the run. But things are about to change in a big way as the alien peacekeepers known as the Guardians arrive on Earth looking for a rogue member of th...

  • True Dark

    Ultrahumans - 6

    Twilight is missing. Her darkest personality has taken control, and no one knows where she is or what she might do. Across the globe, the cosmic energy pulse from two dying spaceships has unleashed a new wave of Ultrahumans, often stronger than has e...

  • Liberty

    Ultrahumans - 7

    America has a new national hero, the enigmatic Miss Liberty, along with a new president. There are aliens in orbit around Mars. Someone is blowing up inconsequential buildings with massive amounts of explosives. A preacher is ‘casting demons’ fro...

  • The Hellas Find

    Fox Meridian - 9

    For a long time, humans have observed Mars through telescopes and seen evidence of life, even of complex civilisations. When first machines and then humans actually got to the Red Planet, they discovered a dead rock with a thin, oxygen-free atmospher...

  • Dance with The Devil

    Fox Meridian - 10

    The storm season starts early in 2062, and it leaves behind the body of a woman who appears to have walked out of her house to her death.Newly promoted detective Janice Nebbs and her gynoid partner Mackenzie are called in when a body is found in a ca...



  • Blood Magic

    Princeps Venator - 3

    Things seem quiet in New York as the NYPD Specialist Crimes Unit takes on some new staff. The only outstanding case on their books is that of a headless vampire corpse found in the East River. It’s looking like it will be a quiet summer, until the ...

  • Royal Flush

    Ultrahumans - 8

    Trouble brews on the west coast as Mink’s real identity is revealed and the villains crawl out of the woodwork to get her. But is this the opportunity she, Cygnus, and Twilight need to finally take care of California’s criminal royalty?...

  • The Girl Who Dreamed of a Different World

    Japanese schoolgirl Kana Shimizu is more than a little shocked to find herself transported to a different world on her fifteenth birthday. She has been summoned to be the hero who will defeat a demon lord, just like in the manga. Except that she’s ...

  • Death's Handmaiden

    Death's Handmaiden - 1

    The Clan Worlds Alliance is the larget political body in the known galaxy. At its centre lies Shinden, home to the Clan Assembly and the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, probably the best educational facility of its type anywhere. Students from al...

  • Bitter Wind

    Death's Handmaiden - 2

    Nava Ward, the mysterious first year student at the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, is about to receive an offer she would be stupid to refuse. Then she gets an offer she would really prefer to refuse but can’t. And soon she must deal with ...

  • Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions

    Death's Handmaiden - 3

    Nava’s second year at the Sonkei Alliance School of Sorcery begins with a strange new student who seems to have a real invisible friend and just gets stranger. By the time she’s going off-world to rescue a friend during her summer break, ...

  • Age of Atlantis: Return

    For over two thousand years, the legend of Atlantis has intrigued people the world over. A land of technological marvels swallowed up by the ocean. Experts argue over whether it ever existed as more than a thought experiment. Were there real events b...

  • King Solamet's Mines

    Unobtainium - 2

    After dealing with a domestic issue of murder and Unobtainium, Kate and Antonia accompany Charles back to Africa. They are expecting an easy journey of exploration, but they discover something in King Solamet’s mines which takes them far furthe...

  • The Empress's Mage

    From an early age, Jessalyn has known that she wants to be a travelling mage. Despite being sickly and weak, she has a talent for magic. It’s a shame that her family, her father in particular, doesn’t appreciate her talent, but Jessalyn s...

  • Sign of the Dragon

    Tatsu Yamada - 1

    The world is run by powerful artificial intelligences. After the plagues and wars, the only nation remaining under human control is an increasingly urbanised Japan, now reluctantly harbouring refugees from many other countries.In the Chiba Refugee Zo...

  • Titans

    The Wave struck Earth on the 30th of January 2103, an anomaly in space which left the world in utter chaos.It left something behind, however: Titans. Men and women with abilities science cannot explain. Heroes and monsters. Both beloved and feared, t...

  • Futures

    Death's Handmaiden - 4

  • Fallen

    Alexander has a pretty easy life as an adventurer in the Godspire Mountains. It’s not like you have to actually kill a dragon to collect its scales. Dragons moult. When he woke up one morning beside a beautiful crystal-clear lake only to have a...

  • Mask of the Demon

    Someone is killing women in Chiba, leaving the bodies wearing a Noh mask. The case is assigned to Tatsu Yamada, one of Chiba’s top detectives, but when the killer shifts targets to Tokyo, the cyborg policewoman is faced with as much politics as...

  • The Aquaria Incident

    Dark secrets are revealed when Nava, Mitsuko, and Melissa take a holiday on the resort planet of Aquaria. Those secrets lead back to Melissa’s home system and a threat to the existence of her clan....

  • Loyalty

    Nava Greyling has only ever wanted a normal life in a normal school. Well, relatively normal. Normal schoolgirls don’t have to worry about terrorist organisations (old and new) and the threat of impending interstellar war. When magic, bullets, ...

  • Demonscourge

    When Mysara, goddess of magic and mischief, was kicked out of the home of the gods, she set about living the normal life of an adventurer with her mortal friends. Normal may not be entirely the right word when you are dealing with a woman who puts th...

  • Starlight

    Thousands of years ago, the Romar ruled the world. Then their god’s constellation vanished from the sky, their empire fell, and most of the Romar became slaves.Eighteen years ago, Rom’s constellation reappeared, and on that night, a girl ...

  • Elementary

    Physicist Calista Hogarth is a firm believer in rationality. Suddenly finding herself in an entirely different world after her sudden death, she must now deal with the fact that the nature of the world is elemental and magical. Oh, and she has to sav...

  • The Man Who Was Never There

    It’s a new year at the Taniyn Abayad Abyad Magic School. New students flood in from all corners of Ardalamn, hoping to become the next generation of powerful magicians.Many of them won’t make it out alive....

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Niall Teasdale has published 70 books.

Niall Teasdale does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Man Who Was Never There, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Niall Teasdale, Thaumatology 101, was published in October 2011.

Yes. Niall Teasdale has 13 series.
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