Pip Ballantine

Pip Ballantine is a pen name used by Philippa Ballantine. She is a contemporary New Zealand author known for writing speculative fiction. She is also an avid podcaster.

The best place to start is the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, the earliest of Pip Ballantine's multi-book series: it opens with Phoenix Rising (2011) and runs to 11 books across 2011–2018, ending with The Books and Braun Dossier (2018). Pip Ballantine's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Pip Ballantine has 39 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2023. 31 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with 11 books — and 8 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. Pip Ballantine's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (2011–2018, 11 books), Tales From the Archives Anthologies (2011–2016, 10 books) and Tale from the Archives (2011–2018, 7 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Pip Ballantine's 39 books into 4 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (11 books, 2011–2018); Tales From the Archives Anthologies (10 books, 2011–2016); Tale from the Archives (7 books, 2011–2018); Verity Fitzroy and the Ministry Seven (3 books, 2016–2023).