Author guide
Nicola Griffith Books in Order
Nicola Griffith is a British-American writer whose work spans science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, literary crime, memoir, essays, poetry, and short fiction. Her novels include Ammonite, Slow River, the Aud Torvingen trilogy, Hild, Menewood, Spear, and So Lucky. She has also edited the Bending the Landscape anthology series with Stephen Pagel and published the short-fiction collection With Her Body and the mixed-genre collection She Is Here. Griffith has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, Otherwise/Tiptree, Lambda Literary, and other major awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University and lives in Seattle.
Nicola Griffith's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Ammonite
Best entry point for Griffith's science fiction and central themes of gender, embodiment, sexuality, and social transformation.
The Blue Place
Best entry point for the Aud Torvingen crime series and Griffith's literary noir.
Hild
Best entry point for Griffith's historical fiction and the Hild sequence.
She Is Here
A compact overview of Griffith's fiction, essays, poetry, art, and creative perspective, including a substantial previously unpublished novella.
Read in order
Books by series
novel-series · complete
Aud Torvingen
A trilogy of literary noir novels featuring Aud Torvingen, a Norwegian-American security specialist and investigator.
novel-series · ongoing
Hild Sequence
Historical novels centered on Hild of Whitby and the political, religious, and cultural transformations of seventh-century Britain.
anthology-series · complete
Bending the Landscape
A trilogy of original speculative-fiction anthologies with queer protagonists, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel.
Outside the series
