Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McChaughreen is a renowned British author of children's books and young adult novels. She is known to have penned over 170 novels in her career spread across different novel series. The highlight of her career is writing the official sequel of Peter Pan called Peter Pan in Scarlet.

The best place to start is the Dramascripts series, the earliest of Geraldine McCaughrean's multi-book series: it opens with The Valley of Fear (1915) and runs to 56 books across 1915–2017, ending with The Brotherhood of Smoke (2017). Geraldine McCaughrean's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Geraldine McCaughrean has 257 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1915 and 2025. 150 of them belong to 15 named series — the largest being the Dramascripts series with 56 books — and 107 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Geraldine McCaughrean's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Dramascripts (1915–2017, 56 books), Brambledown Tales (1989, 8 books) and Geraldine McCaughrean's Retellings (1989–1993, 2 books), plus 12 more.

This guide splits Geraldine McCaughrean's 257 books into 15 named series and 107 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Dramascripts (56 books, 1915–2017); Flashbacks (30 books, 1998–2020); Greek Myths (12 books, 1993–2001); Greek Myths (12 books, 1997–2013); Brambledown Tales (8 books, 1989), plus 10 further series.