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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1999
  • Latest Book:
    July 2026
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Full Series List in Order

A Lily Pascale Mystery

1 - Dead Clever (Jan-2003)
2 - In Your Face (1999)
3 - Seaside (Feb-2005)

Worldquake Sequence

1 - Dragon's Green (Jun-2017)
2 - The Chosen Ones (Jun-2018)
3 - Galloglass (May-2019)

Books in Order: 18 titles

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  • Patricia Highsmith meets The White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.“Fantastically gripping…this is fic...





  • For tens of thousands of years, the oaks have stood proud and tall, and along with the other trees around this planet helped provide the air that we all breathe. They give us shelter from the rain, shade from the hot sun and provide a home for a vari...



  • From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in -- and be thin -- at their all"girls boarding schoolIt's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter ...



  • Effie, Wolf, Raven, and Max are faced with their most challenging adventure yet in the third installment of the magical Worldquake series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “tailor-made for Harry Potter’s fans.” Effie Truelove and her school friend...



  • Effie and her gifted friends -- Raven, Maximillian, Lexy, and Wolf -- embark on another adventure to save the world from the evil Diberi. The second book in the magical Worldquake trilogy, that’s “tailor-made for Harry Potter’s fans” (Kirkus ...



  • The Neverending Story meets Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus trilogy in this first magical adventure in a new series from acclaimed novelist Scarlett Thomas. Effie Truelove believes in magic, as does her grandfather Griffin (although he refuses to d...



  • A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers.Great Aunt Oleander is dead. T...






  • 'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.'They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their live...



  • The ultimate guide to reading and writing fiction, with useful creative exercises and fascinating analyses of great plots -- from Plato and Tolstoy to The Matrix and Toy Story. The bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y shows you how to unlock any na...



  • Can a story save your life? Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscien...



  • A cursed book sends a young woman on a philosophical journey through an alternate dimension in this "stylish and dizzying" novel by the author of PopCo (The New York Times).   Graduate student Ariel Manto has a fascination ...



  • "The code-breaking and -making heroine of [this] smart, engaging novel takes a critical view of the corporate marketing of cool . . . a captivating heroine." -- Publishers Weekly Twentysomething Alice Butler is a bit of an in...



  • Smart, wilfull, incautious and nearly terminally curious, Lily Pascale-university lecturer and part-time sleuth-faces her most baffling case in Seaside, when one-half of a pair of identical twins turns up dead....



  • Luke is allergic to everything. He spends his days in a sterile safe-haven designed to keep out all light and dirt, while everything he knows about the world comes from books, movies, the internet and whatever his best-friend Julie tells him. He wo...




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    A phone call sends Lily Pascale to London to help her old friend Jess, a journalist selling true-life stories to Smile! magazine. She has written a feature about three women who were stalked and now, on the day of publication, they've all been found ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Scarlett Thomas has published 18 books.

The next book by Scarlett Thomas, The Runner, will be published in July 2026.

The first book by Scarlett Thomas, In Your Face, was published in January 1999.

Yes. Scarlett Thomas has 2 series.