James Lovegrove Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Age of.../ Pantheon Books
The Age of Ra | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Age of Zeus | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Age of Odin | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Aztec | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Voodoo | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Shiva | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Heroes | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Legends | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Age of.../ Pantheon Short Stories/Novellas
Age of Anansi | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Satan | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Godpunk | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Age of Gaia | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Cthulhu Casebooks Books
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dev Harmer Mission Books
Publication Order of Firefly Books
Big Damn Hero | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magnificent Nine | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghost Machine | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Generations | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life Signs | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnival | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Makes Us Mighty | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Coup de Grâce | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of 5 Lords of Pain Books
The Lord of the Mountain | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lord of the Void | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lord of Tears | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lord of the Typhoon | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lord of Fire | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of God-killers in Our Midst Books
Publication Order of The Guardians Books
Publication Order of Most Wanted Books
Dead Brigade | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heroes | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kill Clock | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revenge | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chop | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghosts of 2012 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stumps | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Redlaw Books
Publication Order of Sherlock Holmes Books
The Stuff of Nightmares | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gods of War | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thinking Engine | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Patchwork Devil | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Labyrinth of Death | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cry of the Innocents | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Dust | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and The Beast of the Stapletons | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Hope | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Escardy Gap | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Days | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hand That Feeds | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Foreigners | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wings | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Untied Kingdom | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House Of Lazarus | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gig | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worldstorm | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ant God | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Provender Gleed | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Keep | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kill Swap | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kuczynski Verifications | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freerunner | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warsuit 1.0 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Betterlife | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Carry the Moon in My Pocket | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Head | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Phone | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Imagined Slights | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diversifications | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The James Lovegrove Collection | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
James Lovegrove Collection Vol. 2 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
Publication Order of The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War of the Worlds | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Rat of Sumatra | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock vs Dracula | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stalwart Companions | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ectoplasmic Man | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whitechapel Horrors | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventh Bullet | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seance for a Vampire | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angel of the Opera | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Titanic Tragedy | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Star of India | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll of the Dead | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from Hell | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting of Torre Abbey | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Veiled Detective | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Between the Thames and the Tiber: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Web Weaver | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grimswell Curse | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Promise | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Albino's Treasure | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Worm | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ripper Legacy | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at Sorrow's Crown | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Counterfeit Detective | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moonstone's Curse | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Improbable Prisoner | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil and the Four | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Instrument of Death | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1: 1881-1891 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Martian Menace | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Venerable Tiger | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crusader's Curse | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Web - 2028 Books
Avatar | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Webcrash | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cydonia | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Computopia | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Web: 2028 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Destination Unknown | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foursight | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Line | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Carnivàle of Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Solaris Rising 2 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part III: 1896 to 1929 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Associates of Sherlock Holmes | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part V | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
SNAFU: Black Ops | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part VII | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fables from the Fountain | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scarlet Traces | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderland | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes: A Detective’s Life | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reports from the Deep End | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
James Lovegrove is an English author of horror, science fiction, historical mystery, young adult fiction, and young adult fantasy books best known for his award-winning novel The Age of Odin. The author attended Radley College and was one of the subjects in Public School, a 1979 BBC TV series and later was educated at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford.
James Langrove novel the United Kingdom was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel Days. Carry The Moon in My Pocket, a collection of short stories won Seiun Award in 2011. The author has also written young adult fiction including The Clouded World under the pen name Jay Amory. The series has been translated into over nine languages. Langrove’s Pantheon series is a set of novels that can be read as standalone military sci-fi featuring ancient gods mythologies. Besides writing novels, the author has contributed journalism and reviews to magazines such as BBC Mindgames Magazine, Interzone and The Literary Review.
The Age of Ra
There’s an old belief that explains the concept behind The Age of Ra- the belief of As Above, So Below from an old alchemical phrase, The Emerald Tablet. To all the followers of ancient hermeticism, this phrase is the key to all the mysteries of this world. The author of The Emerald Tablet, Hermes Trismegistus saw the phrase as a key to open the magic born in the world. The main meaning of the maxim is that macro cosmos is reflected in the microcosmos and that God is equal to man.
James Lovegrove uses the same idea in his brilliantly woven book where he creates two different worlds in the far future where the Egyptian Pantheon have taken over the rule from all other gods and divided the earth into different factions each segment assigned a god from the pantheon.
Primarily Earth is divided into two – the Earth and the divine level. To be more specific, the story tells four unique tales with four parallel arcs. First is the story of the pantheon gods and their movement in the pantheon and secondly is the between Osiris, Set, Nephthys, and Isis. Thirdly is the battle between the worldly divisions and their struggle for domination and finally is the battle between a British soldier and his smaller brother.
The Age of Ra is all about fratricide, theocracy, and sibling rivalry which is witnessed both on heaven and earth. Well, here’s an eye opener- if you examine closely at the mythology around the world it’s present, the only key difference between the different pantheons are their names- the pantheons are named according to the factions they originate from.
After the Earth is partitioned among the goddesses and gods, Europe is assigned to Isis and Osiris; the United States is assigned to Horus, Africa to Nephthys, Asia to Set, and Japan belongs to Anubis. Ra rejected a responsibility a while back and now roams the Heavens and Earth with his companions. On the other hand, the First Family is soiled in pleasure after confirming their supremacy so that their children and grandchildren rule the world. But because we already know how everything goes on from the mythology, the gods often don’t form a happy family as they thought. For example, Seth murders Osiris, Nephthys seduces Osiris, and Africa forms an alliance with Africa like husband and wife while the US allies with Europe like father and son.
The author has done a brilliant job in crafting his first novel in Pantheon series. The story is told from the point of view of David Westwynter, and it’s a tightly crafted narrative with non-nonsense prose. To the author’s credit, this novel is fast paced, action packed and the characters are fascinating both primary and secondary.
The Age of Zeus
The Greek Pantheon descends to Earth and subjugates the entire world to its will, in a kind of forced pacification, since they end up with the conflicts all but terrorize and kill those who oppose them.
Apparently, a regime of this kind leads to the existence of a resistance, which is usually crushed without pity and pity, until a billionaire decides to create special armor and suits, which allow its users (Titans) to face Zeus and the other gods, almost equal to equal. As you can guess, this makes the book full of action; you could even say that if it was a movie, it was one of those to see with a big bucket of popcorn next to you. This is not to say that it is poorly written; quite the contrary, it is direct and straightforward, which was undoubtedly the aim of the author.
The book advances to the extent of the training and missions of the Titans, which begin with the hunting of mythical monsters, left to lose in the world to intimidate and punish rebellions, such as the Hydra, Grifo, and Minotaur, culminating in an epic confrontation with the gods.
In the middle there is still room for a mystery as to the origin of these Olympians and the pertinent question, whether the ends justify the means – is it that the violence of Zeus and his companions is acceptable, given all the good they have done to the world? The wars are over, and governments are shifting their budgets to social causes, but does it compensate a drunken Hercules to destroy everything in front of him?
Despite having a couple of hundred pages to almost 700 pages, The Age of Zeus is a light read with an engaging heroine who’s supported by a cast of engaging characters who play their roles perfectly. James Lovegrove has fun with his setting, and he is not afraid to give a few dips into the real world. There are scenes of romance that develops between Titan and Sam, all which feel natural and a beautiful element to the story which will satisfy the thirst of avid romance readers. The action is non-stop, the plot is nicely paced, and the characterizations are well done were the Greek gods act and sounded like Greek gods.
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