Manda Scott Books in Order
Browse Manda Scott books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and easy starting points for Kellen Stewart, Boudica, Rome, and more.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Hen's Teeth
by Manda Scott
1996
When Kellen Stewart gets a late-night call about her ex-lover's death, what looks like an overdose begins to look far more dangerous. A tight circle of friends, a farm, and a buried conspiracy turn grief into murder.
Night Mares
by Manda Scott
1998
Equine surgeon Nina Crawford is watching horses die after routine surgery, and her old nightmares are back. Kellen Stewart tries to help, but the deeper she looks, the more professional duty turns into a deadly investigation.
Stronger Than Death
by Manda Scott
1999
A string of deaths among old friends looks too patterned to be chance. As Kellen Stewart digs into the past she shares with them, she finds grief, suspicion, and the possibility that someone close is hiding the truth.
No Good Deed
by Manda Scott
2001
After an undercover operation collapses in Glasgow, Orla McLeod escapes with a traumatised boy who witnessed too much. Hiding in the Highlands buys them little time when a ruthless killer is still on their trail.
Dreaming the Eagle
by Manda Scott
2003
In pre-Roman Britain, young Breaca of the Eceni begins the hard journey toward becoming Boudica. Her coming of age unfolds alongside tribal rivalries, prophetic dreaming, and the first long shadow of Rome.
Dreaming the Bull
by Manda Scott
2004
Britain is under Roman occupation, and Breaca, now hailed as Boudica, fights to unite the tribes. As Caradoc faces Rome and Bán serves within its ranks, love and loyalty are pulled to breaking point.
Dreaming the Hound
by Manda Scott
2005
With Roman rule tightening across Britain, Boudica returns to the Eceni heartland to reignite resistance. Family, faith and survival collide as the long road toward open rebellion begins to narrow.
Dreaming the Serpent Spear
by Manda Scott
2006
AD 60, and Boudica finally leads the uprising that history remembers. As Roman towns burn and the tribes rise, victory demands more than fury, it asks for sacrifice, healing and impossible choices.
The Crystal Skull
by Manda Scott
2007
Newlyweds Stella and Kit uncover a blue crystal skull hidden for centuries, and immediately find themselves hunted. A Tudor mystery, Mayan prophecy and a race toward 2012 collide in a high-stakes thriller.
The Emperor's Spy
by Manda Scott
2010
In 54 AD, Sebastos Pantera is dragged back toward Nero's Rome to stop a plot that could set the empire ablaze. Politics, prophecy and espionage make every alliance dangerous.
2012
by Manda Scott
2011
This compact guide explores the mythology and speculation around the Maya date of 2012. Scott gathers the prophecies, theories and stranger ideas into a quick, accessible read with a light touch.
Grave Gold/Dream Walker/Pantera II
by Manda Scott
2011
A trio of short stories: one circles the possible grave of Boudica, one follows a ritual that keeps winter at bay, and one opens a window onto Pantera's past in Hyrcania.
Raven Feeder
by Manda Scott
2011
Set during the violent Christian conversion of the Norse world, this coming-of-age story follows Arne Thoreson. When danger reaches Orkney, he must choose defiance, duty and action.
The Coming of the King
by Manda Scott
2011
After the fire of Rome, Pantera hunts his enemy across desert lands and into Judea. Rebellion is building, and stopping one man may be the only way to keep a province from ruin.
The Last Roman in Britain
by Manda Scott
2011
This short alternate-history tale asks what might have happened if Boudica had won. Hywell, Cunomar and Valerius must secure a fragile future before Rome can strike back.
The Eagle of the Twelfth
by Manda Scott
2012
Young legionary Demalion of Macedon finds purpose in Rome's unluckiest legion. When the Twelfth loses its eagle in Judaea, he must go undercover into Jerusalem to win back its honour.
The Art of War
by Manda Scott
2013
Rome, AD 69. Pantera returns during the Year of the Four Emperors, using bribery, blackmail and deception to shape the coming struggle, while a traitor close to him threatens everything.
Into The Fire
by Manda Scott
2015
Capitaine Inès Picaut investigates a series of brutal fires in Orléans and finds clues that point toward Joan of Arc. Present-day murder and fifteenth-century intrigue twist together into one dangerous secret.
A Treachery of Spies
by Manda Scott
2018
An elderly woman is murdered in Orléans in the manner of a Resistance traitor. To solve the case, Inès Picaut must unravel a wartime web of betrayal that powerful people still want buried.
A Vengeance of Spies
by Manda Scott
2019
This short wartime prequel heads into occupied France, where clandestine missions and divided loyalties turn every choice lethal. It deepens the shadows behind the world of A Treachery of Spies.
Any Human Power
by Manda Scott
2024
As Lan dies, she makes a promise that reaches beyond death itself. Years later her granddaughter becomes the spark in a global political storm, and one family is forced to imagine a different future.
Where should I start?
If you want the big historical epic: Dreaming the Eagle → Dreaming the Bull → Dreaming the Hound → Dreaming the Serpent Spear
If you want Roman espionage and war: The Emperor's Spy → The Coming of the King → The Eagle of the Twelfth → The Art of War
If you want modern Scottish crime: Hen's Teeth → Night Mares → Stronger Than Death → No Good Deed
If you like dual-timeline French thrillers: Into The Fire → A Treachery of Spies
If you want her more speculative side: The Crystal Skull → Any Human Power
Author bio
Manda Scott grew up in a tiny village south of Glasgow, and a lot of her childhood sounds a little less ordinary than most. Her mother ran a raptor rehabilitation centre, so home could include owls and other injured birds, and the kind of daily animal drama that most people only see from a distance. She has said she read constantly as a child and assumed, early on, that she would somehow become both a vet and a writer.
She became a vet first.
Born and educated in Glasgow, she studied veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow and then built a serious career in practice and academia. She worked in equine medicine in Newmarket, spent time at Cambridge, later taught at the universities of Cambridge and Dublin, and specialised in anaesthesia and intensive care. That background shows up all through her fiction. Even when the stories move into myth or ancient history, the bodily detail and procedural clarity tend to feel grounded.
Writing ran alongside that life for years. Around her thirtieth birthday, while working as a veterinary anaesthetist in Cambridge, she got the kind of nudge that made her take the dream more seriously, and she has spoken about being reminded to think of herself as a writer who happened to make a living as a vet. She has also credited Fay Weldon as an important teacher, someone who helped lift her work to a publishable standard.
Her early books were contemporary crime novels set largely in Scotland. Hen's Teeth was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and the Kellen Stewart novels, Night Mares and Stronger Than Death, brought together medicine, psychology and murder in a way that felt both smart and raw. No Good Deed followed with a darker, harder edge and later picked up an Edgar nomination.
Then history took over.
The books many readers know best are the four Boudica novels, beginning with Dreaming the Eagle. In them, Scott reimagines the world of ancient Britain through Breaca, the woman who becomes Boudica, and through the people around her, especially Bán and Caradoc. Readers who love these books tend to talk about their physical world first, the weather, horses, forests, battlefields and sacred places, but the real pull is how closely the novels tie power, land, kinship and belief together.
From there she went on to the Rome novels, written as M.C. Scott, with the spy Pantera moving through Nero's empire, and later to the French dual-timeline thrillers Into The Fire and A Treachery of Spies. More recently, Any Human Power turns her attention toward the near future, mixing politics, myth, technology and intergenerational struggle. Across all of these books, whatever the setting, she keeps returning to a few big questions: who gets to shape the story, what people do under pressure, and whether old ways of seeing the world can survive organised power.
She now lives in the borderlands between England and Wales, in Shropshire, though she still describes herself as a Scot at heart. Alongside the novels she has worked as a columnist, teacher and podcaster, and her interests range widely, from shamanic practice to regenerative economics. That range helps explain why her bibliography can move from Glasgow crime to Rome, from Boudica to Joan of Arc, and still feel recognisably like the work of one writer.
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