Garry Kilworth
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Garry Douglas Kilworth is a fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 and historical novelist.

Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

. He was previously a science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author
Author
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, having published one hundred twenty short stories and seventy novels. His most recent books are Brothers of the Blade, a historical war novel set in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, and Attica, a dark quest set in an attic the size of a continent.

Kilworth's novel Rogue Officer has won the 2008 Charles Whiting
Charles Whiting
Charles Whiting , was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad and Leo Kessler.Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a...

 Award for Literature. The Ragthorn, a novella co-authored with Robert Holdstock
Robert Holdstock
Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....

, won the World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...

 in 1992.

Navigator Kings

  1. The Roof of Voyaging (1996)
  2. The Princely Flower (1997)
  3. Land-of-Mists (1998)

Welkin Weasels
Welkin Weasels
Welkin Weasels is a series of fantasy novels by British author Garry Kilworth. As of 2003, it consists of six books, all published by Random House's Corgi Juvenile imprint.-Thunder Oak:...

 

  1. Thunder Oak
    Thunder Oak
    Thunder Oak is a 1997 heroic fantasy novel written by British author Garry Kilworth. It is the first novel in the Welkin Weasels series...

    (1997)
  2. Castle Storm
    Castle Storm
    Castle Storm is the second novel in the Welkin Weasels series by Garry Kilworth. Picking up shortly after the end of Thunder Oak, the novel centers around the anthropomorphised weasels searching for the humans that mysteriously vanished from their homeland many years before...

    (1998)
  3. Windjammer Run (1999)
  4. Gaslight Geezers (2001)
  5. Vampire Voles (2002)
  6. Heastward Ho! (2003)

Knights of Liöfwende

  1. Spiggot's Quest (2002)
  2. Mallmoc's Castle (2003)
  3. Boggart and Fen (2004)

Stand-Alone Novels

  • In Solitary (1977)
  • The Night of Kadar
    The Night of Kadar
    The Night of Kadar is a science-fiction novel by Garry Kilworth, published in 1978.- Plot summary :The Night of Kadar tells the story of a crew of interplanetary colonists. On their approach to a distant planet, while these human space voyagers were still in a state of suspended animation, an alien...

    (1978)
  • Split Second (1979)
  • Gemini God (1981)
  • A Theatre of Timesmiths (1984)
  • Tree Messiah (1985)
  • Highlander (1986) (as Garry Douglas)
  • Witchwater Country (1986)
  • Spiral Winds (1987)
  • The Wizard of Woodworld (1987)
  • Cloudrock (1988)
  • The Street (1988) (as Garry Douglas)
  • Abandonati (1988)
  • The Voyage of the Vigilance (1988)
  • The Rain Ghost (1989)
  • Hunter's Moon
    Hunter's Moon
    Hunter's Moon, known as The Foxes of Firstdark in the United States, is a novel by English fantasy author Garry Kilworth, published in 1989...

    (1989)
  • Hunter's Moon (1990) (U.S. title The Foxes of Firstdark)
  • Midnight's Sun (1990)
  • Standing on Shamsan (1991)
  • The Drowners (1991)
  • The Third Dragon (1991)
  • Frost Dancers: A Story of Hares (1992)
  • Billy Pink's Private Detective Agency (1993)
  • The Electric Kid (1994)
  • The Phantom Piper (1994)
  • The Bronte Girls (1995)
  • House of Tribes (1995)
  • Cybercats (1996)
  • A Midsummer's Nightmare
    A Midsummer's Nightmare (novel)
    A Midsummer's Nightmare is a novel by Garry Kilworth. It is a comical parody of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream....

    (1996)
  • The Devil's Own (1997)
  • The Gargoyle (1997)
  • The Valley of Death: Sergeant Jack Crossman and the Battle of Balaclava (1998)
  • The Drummer Boy (1998)
  • Epix: Heavenly Hosts V Hell United (1998)
  • The Lantern Fox (1998)
  • Monster School (1999)
  • Soldiers in the Mist (1999)
  • Hey, New Kid! (1999)
  • Shadow-Hawk (1999)
  • The Icehouse Boy (2001)
  • Soldier's Son (2001)
  • Comix: Monster School (2002)
  • Nightdancer (2002)
  • The Winter Soldiers (2002)
  • Attack on the Redan (2003)
  • Brothers of the Blade (2004)
  • The Silver Claw (2005)
  • Attica
    Attica (novel)
    Attica is a 2006 children's fantasy novel by the British writer Garry Kilworth.-Plot summary:12-year-old Chloe and her brothers: Jordy, 12, and Alex, 10, have the adventure of a lifetime....

    (2006)

Collections

  • Let's go to Golgotha
    Let's go to Golgotha
    Let's Go to Golgotha! is a 1975 science fiction story by Garry Kilworth, published in a collection of the same name.In the future period where the story takes place, time travel has been invented and made commercially available...

    (1975)
  • Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands (1984)
  • The Songbirds of Pain (1984)
  • In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave (1989)
  • Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks (1990)
  • In the Country of Tattooed Men (1993)
  • Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales (2005)
  • Tales From A Fragrant Harbour (2010)

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