Henry Porter Books in Order
Henry Porter has written 10 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is Remembrance Day (1999) and the newest is Enigma Girl (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1999–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,456 in 5 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 41–61 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,456 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Henry Porter, born in 1953, is an English journalist and thriller writer. Espionage, terrorism and the British intelligence services supply the fiction, and The Old Enemy (2021) forms the third part of a quartet. Ten novels are catalogued, from Remembrance Day (1999) to Enigma Girl (2025), grouped into the Robert Harland, Paul Samson and House of Skirl series, one of them written for children. Outside fiction, Porter edited Vanity Fair's British edition for 25 years until 2018 and wrote an Observer column on civil liberties until 2014.
How many Henry Porter books are there?
Henry Porter has 10 books, released between 1999 and 2025. They include 3 series and 3 titles listed outside any series.
Henry Porter Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Henry Porter 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.
- 1Remembrance Day1999 · 528 pages · confirmed 2/419995282/4
- 220014702/4
- 320034642/4
- 420055922/4
- 52008–2/4
- 6The Dying Light / The Bell Ringers2009 · 402 pages · confirmed 2/420094022/4
- 72018–2/4
- 82019–2/4
- 92021–2/4
- 10Enigma Girl2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Henry Porter 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.
Robert Harland in order
3 booksPaul Samson in order
3 booksHouse Of Skirl in order
1 bookStandalone books
3 books3 Henry Porter titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Henry Porter books in order?
You only need to read Henry Porter 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 Henry Porter
Start with Remembrance Day (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Henry Porter book?
Enigma Girl (2025) is the newest Henry Porter book released so far.
Is there a new Henry Porter book coming?
No next Henry Porter book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Henry Porter at a glance
- Still publishing
- Henry Porter published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Henry Porter books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,456 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 470 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Henry Porter books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2000s.
What the Henry Porter books are about
6 of the 10 Henry Porter books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: espionage is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Espionage 3 of 6 books
- British Espionage 2 of 6 books
- Great Britain 2 of 6 books
- Intelligence service 2 of 6 books