Giles Kristian Books in Order
See all Giles Kristian books in order, with series overviews and brief summaries to help you choose where to start with his Viking and Arthurian fiction.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
16 books
Arthur
by Giles Kristian
2024
Years after Saxons have taken most of Britain, aging mercenary Beran is hired to murder a royal child whose bloodline might yet unite the land. Instead he chooses to protect the boy, racing toward Camelot while hunted by enemies who would rather see the legend finally die.
Where Blood Runs Cold
by Giles Kristian
2022
In Norway's Arctic north, widowed guide Erik Amdahl takes his teenage daughter Sofia on a long promised ski trip, hoping to mend their fractured relationship. After they stumble into a brutal crime at a remote cabin, the pair must survive a relentless manhunt across snow and ice.
Hellmouth
by Giles Kristian
2021
In 1370 Bohemia, disgraced knight Galien leads a hard bitten crew of mercenaries into a shadowed forest on a mission for the Church. What begins as a simple task soon twists into a nightmare of superstition, blood and buried sin inside a place locals whisper is hell's mouth.
Camelot
by Giles Kristian
2020
Years after Arthur's fall, his son Galahad lives as a novice in an isolated monastery, trying to forget the world beyond. When warriors Iselle and Gawain drag him into a new Saxon war, he joins a perilous quest for old magic and a reason to keep Camelot's dream alive.
Lancelot
by Giles Kristian
2018
In a Britain abandoned by Rome and threatened by Saxons, a boy scarred by violence grows up under Merlin's guidance to become Lancelot. Training beside Arthur and drawn irresistibly to Guinevere, he must decide what loyalty, love and honor really mean when a kingdom hangs in the balance.
Winter's Fire
by Giles Kristian
2016
Sigurd Haraldarson has begun to avenge his murdered kin, but King Gorm still lives. To build the wealth and reputation he needs, Sigurd leads his fellowship to Sweden as mercenaries, where betrayal, siege and near sacrifice in a foreign temple test every oath they have sworn.
Wings of the Storm
by Giles Kristian
2016
Captured after a failed raid, Sigurd is dragged in chains toward the sacred grove at Ubsola to be offered to the gods. There he seizes a legendary spear and the chance to raise a great war host, driving toward a final reckoning with oath breaking King Gorm.
Golden Lion
by Giles Kristian
2015
Captain Hal Courtney believes he has outrun his past until a vengeful enemy strikes off the coast of Africa, kidnapping his warrior wife Judith and their unborn child. To save them, Hal must chase his foe through deserts, slave markets and treacherous seas, risking everything he has built.
The Terror
by Giles Kristian
2014
In this Viking short story, a band of eager young warriors is sent to steal a fearsome prize known only as the Terror in order to win their jarl's favor. The hunt drags them through icy seas, rival halls and something far stranger than any raiding enemy.
God of Vengeance
by Giles Kristian
2014
After King Gorm slaughters his father's household, young Sigurd Haraldarson escapes with only a few loyal companions and a burning oath. To strike back he must gather outcasts and killers under his banner, earning silver, fame and the favor of the gods along the way.
Brothers' Fury
by Giles Kristian
2013
As the war deepens, Tom Rivers is cast out by his Royalist family and turned into a weapon by a ruthless Parliament spymaster, while Edmund leads a feared cavalry band for the king. Between them, Bess risks everything to try to pull her shattered family back together.
The Bleeding Land
by Giles Kristian
2012
In 1642 England, the Rivers family is torn apart as civil war erupts between king and Parliament. Eldest son Edmund rides for the crown, younger Tom is driven toward the rebels, and their sister Bess must defend home and kin when soldiers come to their door.
Odin's Wolves
by Giles Kristian
2011
After brutal losses, Raven and his shipmates chase fame and fortune all the way to Miklagard, the great city of Constantinople. Their voyage through the marshes of Gaul and a decaying Rome ends in a bloody struggle where glory and survival no longer match.
Sons of Thunder
by Giles Kristian
2010
Raven and the Wolfpack sail upriver into Charlemagne's empire, hunting the Saxon traitor who betrayed them and sold their stolen relic for gold. Surrounded by enemies and Christian power, Raven must use cunning as much as steel to keep his new family alive.
Blood Eye
by Giles Kristian
2009
Outcast Osric lives a quiet life as a carpenter's apprentice until Norse raiders burn his village and drag him aboard their longship. Renamed Raven by their chief, he must earn his place in a savage warband and steal a sacred book that kings will kill for.
Night's Touch
by Giles Kristian
2007
Cara DeLongpre slips into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a little freedom from her overprotective parents and meets Vincent Cordova, a man hiding the fact he is newly made vampire. As desire grows, dark forces fix on Cara's unusual blood and the secrets of her family.
Where should I start?
If you want gritty Viking action: Raven: Blood Eye → Sons of Thunder → Odin's Wolves.
If you prefer a Viking origin story: God of Vengeance → Winter's Fire → Wings of the Storm.
If you enjoy family drama and war: The Bleeding Land → Brothers' Fury.
If Arthurian myth is your thing: Lancelot → Camelot → Arthur.
If you are after a modern thriller: Where Blood Runs Cold (standalone).
Author bio
Giles Kristian was born in 1975 in Leicestershire, to an English father and a Norwegian mother, and grew up with one foot in the English Midlands and the other in stories of fjords, longships and sagas. That mix of landscapes and family lore would later feed straight into his fiction.
Music came first. At university he was studying English literature when an audition for a new boy band changed everything, propelling him into the group Upside Down. Overnight he went from student to lead singer, touring Europe, racking up several top twenty singles and performing at venues like the Royal Albert Hall, the N.E.C. and Wembley Arena.
It was a whirlwind life of rehearsals, TV appearances and pop videos filmed everywhere from Prague to Miami.
When the band ended and a brief solo career lost its shine, he walked away from the charts and tried almost anything that would keep him afloat and curious. He modelled in advertising campaigns, made a memorable appearance as the 'Magnum man' in ice cream commercials, and discovered he liked the craft of slogans and taglines as much as performing them. That interest pulled him into work as an advertising copywriter.
For nearly three years he lived in New York, writing copy for a movie marketing agency by day and slowly piecing together chapters of a very different kind of story by night. Family tales from his Norwegian side, a long standing fascination with Viking history and the example of writers like Bernard Cornwell all pushed him toward historical fiction. Out of that stew came his debut novel Raven: Blood Eye, the first in a Viking trilogy about an outcast with a blood red eye who finds a rough sort of family among a Norse warband.
Raven: Blood Eye was followed by Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves, establishing a world of longships, shield walls and hard won comradeship that he would keep returning to. In the related Rise of Sigurd trilogy, beginning with God of Vengeance, he stepped back a generation to tell how Sigurd Haraldarson and his oathsworn fellowship fought their way from betrayal and exile toward the chance of revenge. The Icelandic style banter, knotty friendships and storm lashed battles of these books have made them favourites with readers who like their Vikings vivid but believable.
Kristian has also taken that same eye for mud, steel and divided loyalties into other periods. In The Bleeding Land and Brothers' Fury he moves to seventeenth century England, following the Rivers family as civil war forces each of them to choose between king, Parliament and kin. With Lancelot, Camelot and Arthur he dives into Arthurian legend, stripping away some of the shine to imagine a Britain of warlords, refugees and fragile hopes where famous names like Lancelot, Galahad and Beran have to fight for every scrap of meaning.
Alongside these series he has co written Golden Lion in Wilbur Smith's Courtney sequence, ventured into modern thriller territory with the Arctic survival tale Where Blood Runs Cold, and explored darker, more uncanny ground in the medieval horror novella Hellmouth. Away from the page he has worked on story and dialogue for video games set in the Viking age, and helped develop film and television projects through a production company he co founded.
These days he lives back in Leicestershire, not far from where he grew up. When he is not writing about raids, battles and broken kingdoms, he still draws on the music background that first took him on the road, and on the mix of English fields and Norwegian heritage that has shaped almost everything he puts on the page.
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