Chris d’Lacey Books in Order
Chris d’Lacey has written 39 books, published between 1994 and 2018. The first book is A Hole At The Pole (1994) and the newest is The New Age (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 39
- Published
- 1994–2018
- Confirmed
- 7 of 39 titles
- Pages on record
- 6,060 in 30 of 39 books
- Reading time
- 101–152 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,060 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 39 titles with a page count on record.
Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction, best known for The Last Dragon Chronicles. Dragons run through much of the work, the Erth Dragons, the Dragons Of Wayward Crescent, alongside the Unicorne Files. Thirty-nine books are catalogued between A Hole At The Pole (1994) and The New Age (2018). Five titles appeared in 1998 alone: A Break in the Chain, Fly, Cherokee, Fly, Henry Spaloosh!, The Snail Patrol and The Table Football League. Magic, the supernatural, secret societies and adventure recur as subjects.
How many Chris d’Lacey books are there?
Chris d’Lacey has 39 books, released between 1994 and 2018. They include 3 series and 21 titles listed outside any series.
Chris d’Lacey Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 39 Chris d’Lacey 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.
- 1A Hole At The Pole1994 · 42 pages · confirmed 2/41994422/4
- 2Juggling with Jeremy1996 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41996482/4
- 3Henry Spaloosh!1998 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/41998962/4
- 4Fly, Cherokee, Fly1998 · confirmed 2/41998–2/4
- 5A Break in the Chain1998 · 39 pages · confirmed 2/41998392/4
- 6The Snail Patrol1998 · 123 pages · confirmed 2/419981232/4
- 7The Table Football League1998 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/419981602/4
- 8On Me 'ead, Santa!1999 · 168 pages · confirmed 2/419991682/4
- 9Bubble and Float1999 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/41999322/4
- 10Riverside United1999 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419991442/4
- 11Lofty1999 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/41999642/4
- 12Dexter's Journey2000 · 45 pages · confirmed 2/42000452/4
- 13From E to You2000 · 202 pages · confirmed 2/420002022/4
- 14Scupper Hargreaves, Football Genie2000 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420001282/4
- 1520013403/4
- 16Pawnee Warrior2002 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420022882/4
- 17The Salt Pirates of Skegness2002 · 226 pages · confirmed 2/420022262/4
- 1820034213/4
- 19Franklin's Bear2003 · confirmed 2/42003–2/4
- 20The Prompter2003 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/42003802/4
- 21Falling for Mandy2003 · 239 pages · confirmed 2/420032392/4
- 22Horace2004 · 169 pages · confirmed 2/420041692/4
- 2320051803/4
- 24Shrinking Ralph Perfect. Chris D'Lacey2005 · confirmed 2/42005–2/4
- 2520075163/4
- 262008–2/4
- 272009–2/4
- 282009962/4
- 292009–3/4
- 3020101662/4
- 3120101122/4
- 322011–3/4
- 3320125763/4
- 342014–2/4
- 3520153362/4
- 362015–2/4
- 3720163362/4
- 3820163042/4
- 3920183842/4
Chris d’Lacey series and characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
Chris d’Lacey books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.
Last Dragon Chronicles books in order
7 books by Chris d’Lacey- 1. The Fire Within
- 2. Icefire
- 3. Fire Star
- 4. The Fire Eternal
- 5. Dark Fire
- 6. Fire World
- 7. The Fire Ascending
Dragons of Wayward Crescent in order
4 booksUnicorne Files in order
3 booksErth Dragons in order
3 books- 1. The Wearle
- 2. Dark Wyng
- 3. The New Age
Last Dragon Chronicles Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
21 books21 Chris d’Lacey titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Chris d’Lacey books in order?
You only need to read Chris d’Lacey books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Chris d’Lacey
Start with The Fire Within (2001), the first Last Dragon Chronicles book. The earliest catalogued title overall is A Hole At The Pole (1994).
What is the newest Chris d’Lacey book?
The New Age (2018) is the newest Chris d’Lacey book released so far.
Is there a new Chris d’Lacey book coming?
No next Chris d’Lacey book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Chris d’Lacey at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Chris d’Lacey title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Chris d’Lacey books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 6,060 pages across the 30 of 39 books with a recorded length, a median of 167 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Chris d’Lacey books, 18 of 39, were published in the 2000s.
What the Chris d’Lacey books are about
33 of the 39 Chris d’Lacey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 20 of 33. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 20 of 33 books
- Dragons 13 of 33 books
- Supernatural 8 of 33 books
- Adventure stories 6 of 33 books
- Fantasy 6 of 33 books
- Magic 4 of 33 books
- Authorship 3 of 33 books
- Boardinghouses 3 of 33 books
- Paranormal fiction 3 of 33 books
- Secret societies 3 of 33 books