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Tim Mason Books in Order

Tim Mason has written 10 books, published between 1984 and 2023. The first book is Levitation. (1984) and the newest is The Nightingale Affair (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1984–2023
Pages on record
1,276 in 5 of 10 books
Reading time
21–32 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,276 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.

See all 10 books in order Printable Tim Mason checklist

Tim Mason's catalogue crosses plays, children's writing and historical mystery. Ten books are catalogued between 1984 and 2023, ending at The Nightingale Affair (2023). Ten Plays for Children (1997), The Last Synapsid (2009) and The Darwin Affair (2019) sit in the run, alongside Ascension Day (1991), The Fiery Furnace (1994) and Only You (1995). Subject headings cover plays, children's plays, prehistoric animals, time travel, historical mystery and London. One series carries the Mason credit: Inspector Charles Field.

How many Tim Mason books are there?

Tim Mason has 10 books, released between 1984 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Inspector Charles Field series.

Tim Mason Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Tim Mason 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 Levitation. by Tim Mason (1984)
  2. Cover of The Fiery Furnace by Tim Mason (1994)
  3. Cover of Only You by Tim Mason (1995)
  4. Cover of Ten Plays for Children by Tim Mason (1997)
  5. Cover of Babylon Gardens. by Tim Mason (1998)
  6. Cover of In a Northern Landscape. by Tim Mason (1998)
  7. Cover of The Last Synapsid by Tim Mason (2009)
  8. Cover of The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason, book 1 of the Inspector Charles Field series (2019)
  9. Cover of The Nightingale Affair by Tim Mason, book 2 of the Inspector Charles Field series (2023)
  1. 1
    Levitation.1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Ascension Day1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Fiery Furnace1994 · 71 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199471
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Only You1995 · 61 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199561
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Ten Plays for Children1997 · 360 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997360
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Babylon Gardens.1998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    In a Northern Landscape.1998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Last Synapsid2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    The Darwin AffairInspector Charles Field #12019 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019384
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Nightingale AffairInspector Charles Field #22023 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023400
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Tim Mason 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.

Inspector Charles Field in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Darwin Affair
  2. 2. The Nightingale Affair

Standalone books

8 books

8 Tim Mason titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Tim Mason books in order?

You only need to read Tim Mason books in order within the Inspector Charles Field series, which holds 2 of the 10 Tim Mason books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Tim Mason

Start with Levitation. (1984), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Tim Mason book?

The Nightingale Affair (2023) is the newest Tim Mason book released so far.

Is there a new Tim Mason book coming?

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

Tim Mason at a glance

Paused
No new Tim Mason title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Tim Mason books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
1,276 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 360 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Tim Mason books, 6 of 10, were published in the 1990s.

What the Tim Mason books are about

3 of the 10 Tim Mason books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.