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Allan Mallinson Books in Order

Allan Mallinson has written 19 books, published between 1999 and 2020. The first book is A Close Run Thing (1999) and the newest is The Tigress of Mysore (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1999–2020
Pages on record
8,188 in 18 of 19 books
Reading time
136–205 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,188 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Matthew Hervey, an officer of the fictional British 6th Light Dragoons, carries Allan Mallinson's fiction from the late Napoleonic Wars into colonial campaigns in India, North America and South Africa. A Close Run Thing (1999) opens the sequence, followed by The Nizam's Daughters (2000), A Regimental Affair (2001), A Call to Arms (2002), The Sabre's Edge (2003) and Company of Spears (2006). Mallinson, born in 1949, is an English author and a retired British Army brigadier, and also writes military history, reaching the First World War. The catalogue holds 19 books through 2020, at a median 448 pages.

How many Allan Mallinson books are there?

Allan Mallinson has 19 books, released between 1999 and 2020. 14 of them belong to the Matthew Hervey series.

Allan Mallinson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Allan Mallinson books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson, book 1 of the Matthew Hervey series (1999)
  2. Cover of The Nizam's Daughters / Honorable Company by Allan Mallinson, book 2 of the Matthew Hervey series (2000)
  3. Cover of A Regimental Affair by Allan Mallinson, book 3 of the Matthew Hervey series (2001)
  4. Cover of A Call to Arms by Allan Mallinson, book 4 of the Matthew Hervey series (2002)
  5. Cover of The Sabre's Edge by Allan Mallinson, book 5 of the Matthew Hervey series (2003)
  6. Cover of Rumours of War by Allan Mallinson, book 6 of the Matthew Hervey series (2004)
  7. Cover of An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson, book 7 of the Matthew Hervey series (2005)
  8. Cover of Company of Spears by Allan Mallinson, book 8 of the Matthew Hervey series (2006)
  9. Cover of Man of War by Allan Mallinson, book 9 of the Matthew Hervey series (2007)
  10. Cover of Warrior by Allan Mallinson, book 10 of the Matthew Hervey series (2008)
  11. Cover of 1914 by Allan Mallinson (2013)
  12. Cover of Words of Command by Allan Mallinson, book 12 of the Matthew Hervey series (2015)
  13. Cover of Too Important for the Generals by Allan Mallinson (2016)
  14. Cover of The Tigress of Mysore by Allan Mallinson, book 14 of the Matthew Hervey series (2020)
  1. 1
    A Close Run ThingMatthew Hervey #11999 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999320
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  2. 2
    The Nizam's Daughters / Honorable CompanyMatthew Hervey #22000 · 544 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000544
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  3. 3
    A Regimental AffairMatthew Hervey #32001 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001336
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  4. 4
    A Call to ArmsMatthew Hervey #42002 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002480
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  5. 5
    The Sabre's EdgeMatthew Hervey #52003 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003496
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  6. 6
    Rumours of WarMatthew Hervey #62004 · 369 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004369
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  7. 7
    An Act of CourageMatthew Hervey #72005 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005496
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  8. 8
    Light Dragoons2006 · 362 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006362
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  9. 9
    Company of SpearsMatthew Hervey #82006 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006448
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  10. 10
    Man of WarMatthew Hervey #92007 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007448
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  11. 11
    WarriorMatthew Hervey #102008 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008432
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  12. 12
    The Making Of The British Army2009 · 733 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009733
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  13. 13
    On His Majesty's ServiceMatthew Hervey #112011 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011464
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  14. 14
    19142013 · 640 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013640
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  15. 15
    Words of CommandMatthew Hervey #122015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  16. 16
    Too Important for the Generals2016 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016480
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  17. 17
    The Passage to IndiaMatthew Hervey #132018 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018352
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  18. 18
    Fight to the Finish2019 · 420 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019420
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  19. 19
    The Tigress of MysoreMatthew Hervey #142020 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020368
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Allan Mallinson books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Matthew Hervey in order

14 books
  1. 1. A Close Run Thing
  2. 2. The Nizam's Daughters / Honorable Company
  3. 3. A Regimental Affair
  4. 4. A Call to Arms
  5. 5. The Sabre's Edge
  6. 6. Rumours of War
  7. 7. An Act of Courage
  8. 8. Company of Spears
  9. 9. Man of War
  10. 10. Warrior
  11. 11. On His Majesty's Service
  12. 12. Words of Command
  13. and 2 more in the table above

Standalone books

5 books

5 Allan Mallinson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Allan Mallinson books in order?

You only need to read Allan Mallinson books in order within the Matthew Hervey series, which holds 14 of the 19 Allan Mallinson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Allan Mallinson

Start with A Close Run Thing (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Allan Mallinson book?

The Tigress of Mysore (2020) is the newest Allan Mallinson book released so far.

Is there a new Allan Mallinson book coming?

No next Allan Mallinson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Allan Mallinson at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Allan Mallinson title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Allan Mallinson books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
8,188 pages across the 18 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 448 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Allan Mallinson books, 11 of 19, were published in the 2000s.

What the Allan Mallinson books are about

18 of the 19 Allan Mallinson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: great britain is tagged on 10 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.