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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Flyers

Mad Grandad's Flying Saucer (Sep-2003)
Mad Grandad and the Mutant River (Sep-2005)
Mad Grandad's Wicked Pictures (Oct-2007)
Mad Grandad's Robot Garden (Feb-2008)
Mad Grandad's Doppelganger (Mar-2010)

Forbidden Files

The Evil Hairdo (Oct-2006)
The Poison Factory (Oct-2006)
Wired Teeth (Mar-2008)

Kings of the Realm

1 - War's Harvest (May-2014)
2 - Cruel Salvation (Sep-2014)

Wildenstern Saga

1 - Ancient Appetites (Aug-2015)
2 - Rat Runners (Jan-2015)
3 - Merciless Reason (Apr-2016)

Book List in Order: 31 titles



  • A MAD GRANDAD AND ME STORY Lenny and his mad grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space together. But space is full of all sorts of creatures -- some are friendly, some are not so friendly... Getting into space is easy. Getting home again -- al...



  • Taya and Lorkrin are Myunans â€" shape-changers who can sculpt their flesh like modelling clay. They accidentally release Shessil Groach, a timid botanist working in captivity on the top-secret Harvest Tide Project. A massive manhunt is launched by t...



  • Two worlds. Two different lives. Divided by hate and violence. Thrown together by chance.Chamus's nightmare begins when he survives a massacre. Suicide-bombers from neighbouring Bartokhrin are terrorising his country, Altima. How do you fight someone...



  • Have you ever wondered where the other sock goes, or those keys or your earring or pen? Grandad wonders that all the time.

    Things keep disappearing down the back of Grandad's sofa -- who, or what, has taken them?

    When Lenny and Gran...



  • When Lenny goes fishing with his grandad, he knows they won't catch any ordinary fish. But when they drag up a mermaid in her car, even he's amazed. They all end up fleeing from a crazy fisherman who wants to trap the mermaid. And then they find ther...



  • Volume II of The Archisan TalesTaya and Lorkrin's shape-changing Myunan tribe faces an invasion by Noran, which is intent on mining the valuable iron ore from their sacred mountain, Absaleth. But the mountain is haunted and fights back with supernatu...



  • Deep in the cellars of the O'Brien Press is a safe that contained stories too horrible to be read. But somebody has broken into that safe and the stories have been released.This is one of those Forbidden Files.'It started with my favourite girlband W...



  • Deep in the cellars of the O'Brien Press is a safe that contained stories too horrible to be read. But somebody has broken into that safe and the stories have been released.This is one of those Forbidden Files.'They called it 'The Fart Factory', it s...



  • Grandad and Lenny are trying to paint the living-room. But Grandad's paint is very old and it's gone quite strange. It has stripes and patterns in it... At first it seems like fun to make pictures with this weird paint. Lenny calls his picture 'Fang'...






  • SPECIAL EDITION OF THIS POPULAR TITLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR WORLD BOOK DAYLenny's mad grandad has a new robot gardener. No more weeding or cutting the grass for Grandad.But the robot has other plans ... In the dark of night, it starts a garden of its own a...



  • Deep in the cellars of the O'Brien Press is a safe that contained stories too horrible to be read. But somebody has broken into that safe and the stories have been released.This is one of those Forbidden Files.Crazy dentists, secret agents and remote...



  • Asking questions in Ash Harbor can get you killed. Sol Wheat is asking a lot of questions . . . especially after his father vanishes and is accused of murder. Outside the huge domed city, an Ice Age has transformed Earth into an Arctic desert....



  • Are you being watched?Before she turns twenty-one, Amina Mir intends to have one of her stories published on the front page of the Chronicle. So when she gets an internship there, she’s thrilled, even if it means a summer making coffee and wri...



  • Giants are huge, right?

    Well, this one is a bit different.

    This Irish Giant

    looks like a big baby!

    Will the Scottish Giant

    eat him for breakfast?

    A humorous retelling of a favourite Finn McCool le...





  • While investigating a series of mysterious murders, Nate uncovers dark secrets that threaten to reveal the true nature of the Wildenstern family The British Empire is no longer the authority it once was. Instead, it’s controlled by private business...



  • Grandad has lost his car and Lenny is helping him to look for it. But Grandad is acting very strange ... even stranger than normal. Lenny has to find out what's wrong with Grandad. But that's not all. Something is following Lenny and Grandad - and it...



  • Vulgar Pluck is in trouble. Big trouble. He's tangled with the wrong people and now he's on the run from Psycho Cyrus and his gang of Lost Boys. Vulgar needs to get out of town - fast. But first he's got one last job to do. And he's got to do it quic...



  • The first book in an epic fantasy tie-in series for the global release of the online strategy game Kings of the Realm.They've sown the seeds of war, but they won't reap the harvest . . . Chasing immortality, a group of Trinity veterans - led by the f...






  • Cruel Salvation is the second book in the epic fantasy series that ties in with the groundbreaking global online strategy game Kings of the Realm.Following the devastation of War's Harvest, where The Devourers ravaged the continent, relentlessly dest...



  • A moving short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written and illustrated by a great Irish talent in children’s fiction todayWhen his brother goes missing in action, Charley knows he has a duty to enlist for the army himself. Soon dispatc...



  • Can four young lawbreakers outsmart London’s most powerful gangster? Scope is not your average teenager. A self-described criminal nerd, she spends most of her time cleaning up forensic messes and faking evidence. When you work for Move-Easy, Londo...



  • If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear... Four young thieves, one simple mission: Steal a black-leather box from the daughter of a murdered scientist without anyone noticing. But WatchWorld controls London now, and the organization ...



  • A young journalist uncovers what might be the world’s biggest conspiracy -- if only he can prove it For years, Chi Sandwith has written about things like alien abductions, puppet masters, and brainwashing. He’s not a “conspiracy theorist” tho...



  • Murder, betrayal, and power ... Welcome to the Wildenstern empire The slow collapse of the British Empire in the nineteenth century meant opportunity for anyone with ammunition and wit. Now the Wildensterns are by far the most powerful family -- ...



  • The young wife of the most powerful man in Ireland has been kidnapped, and Nate and Gerald must save her -- from their own family, if necessary While her husband is away on business, Daisy Wildenstern buys a shape-shifting engimal from the charming a...



  • There's no such thing as escaping the Wildensterns... It's been three years since Nathaniel Wildenstern left Ireland and his ruthless family behind. But no one turns his back on the Wildensterns, the powerful family controlling what was once the B...



  • Lenny and Mad Grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space together. Space is full of all sorts of creatures: some are friendly, some are not so friendly ...

    Getting into space is easy. Getting home again -- alive -- is going to be a lot...



  • Lenny's grandad has a new robot gardener. No more weeding or cutting the grass for grandad. But the robot has other plans...in the dark of night it starts a garden of its own, and Lenny and Grandad wake up to a nasty surprise! With black & white illu...






  • Grandad and Lenny are trying to paint the living-room. But Grandad''s paint is very old and it''s gone quite strange. It has stripes and patterns in it..... At first it seems like fun to make pictures with this weird paint. Lenny calls his picture ''...



  • In the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin to gather on the North American island of Newfoundland. They are attempting what many believe to be impossible â€" to fly non-stop across the Atlantic O...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Oisin McGann has published 31 books.

Oisin McGann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Race the Atlantic Wind, was published in June 2019.

The first book by Oisin McGann, Mad Grandad's Flying Saucer, was published in September 2003.

Yes. Oisin McGann has 4 series.