Bryony Pearce Books In Order

Publication Order of Phoenix Books

Publication Order of Red Eye Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Anthologies

Bryony Pearce is a renowned English novelist, who is fond of writing young adult, literature & fiction, thriller, and science fiction books. She is particularly famous for her books from the Phoenix series. Author Pearce’s former name is Bryony McCarthy and she is was born in the United Kingdom. As of today, she is happily married and is blessed with 2 beautiful children. Pearce resides with her family in a village located near the Peak District. She enjoys spending most of her time writing young adult stories. During her spare times, author Pearce likes to relax with her children and husband and go on family vacations. She began her writing career in the year 2011. Prior to that, she completed her education from the Corpus Christi College at the Cambridge University in 1998 and obtained her degree in English Literature. Immediately after her graduation, she began working in the research sector of the business to business market. From 2004 onwards, author Pearce started working as a freelancer and divided her time between her jobs and her writing interests. She says that she developed the interest in reading and writing young adult and fiction stories from a very young age. In addition to her novel series, Pearce has also penned a number of standalone books. Some of them are very popular among her fans and supporters.

It was in 2008 that author Pearce received the much required break to announce her arrival in the publishing world. At that time, she had emerged as the winner of a competition called Undiscovered Voices. She had entered this competition with her novel titled Windrunner’s Daughter and had become victorious. Following her win, she was noticed by many critics and publishing houses. This gave author Pearce a confidence boost and help her in paving her way through the writing and publishing scene. Pearce made her debut as an author with her book called Angel’s Fury. This novel was published in 2011 by the Egmont publishers. Since then, Pearce has written many books and published them at regular intervals. Over the course of her literary career, Pearce has achieved many praises and accolades for her work. Her passion and dedication towards her writing were well noted by the critics and appreciated. All of this helped her in continuing with her writing works and help herself become more and more successful with each published novel. Author Pearce’s novel, Angel’s Fury, has been longlisted for the prestigious Bransford Boase prize. It has even become the winner of the Chesire Schools Award and the Leeds Book prize. For a short period in her life, author Pearce was employed in London. But, she gave it up in order to focus on her writing.

The Phoenix series written by author Bryony Pearce is comprised of a total of 2 books, which were released between the years 2015 and 2016. Both the books are set in a future time period where the fossil fuels have been depleted and piracy is on the rise at the high seas. The series’ central plot revolves around a pirate ship called Phoenix that keeps floating in the areas filled with debris.

Its crew members try to get hands at whatever useful they can get from the debris for remaining alive. Pearce has mentioned the chief characters in the books as Toby, Nell, and Ayla. Nell is depicted as the captain of Phoenix. She is very ruthless, mean, and aggressive. Ayla is Nell’s daughter and the second-in-command on Phoenix. She is a smart, good looking, and quite skillful with her sword. Pearce has shown Ayla as the potential love-interest of Toby. All the crew members on the pirate ship have tattoos of skull on their bodies and have their heads shaved. Only Ayla is an exception. Nell and Ayla are the only ones who really matter on the ship. Another very important character described in the stories is a mechanical parrot named Polly. The debut book of this series is entitled ‘Phoenix Rising’. It was released by the Stripes publishing in the year 2015. At the start of this book’s story, it is shown that there is depletion of fossil fuels and collapsing of the democracy. In such testing time, the outlawed crew members on board Phoenix fight against other pirates for their survival.

They try to keep the ship afloat with whatever things they can scavenge or salvage from the sea. Toby has not been out of the ship ever and so he is unaware of life outside of the Phoenix. He seems desperate to go on an adventure and explore life on land. Soon, the Phoenix is under attack from other pirates, who make attempts to sink it. This emergency situation makes Toby realize that you don’t necessarily get what you wish for. He comes across the beautiful Ayla for the first time on the rival ship known as Banshee. Being a member of the sworn enemies of Phoenix, Ayla is not the one who Toby is supposed to love. This puts his life in a dilemma. He doesn’t know who he should trust. One thing that he knows very well that the future of Phoenix depends on the choices he will make.

The next popular installment of the Phoenix book series is called ‘Phoenix Burning’. It was also published by the Stripes publication in 2016. Once again, Ayla and Toby are depicted as the lead characters of the plot. At the beginning of the story of the book, it is depicted that Toby & Ayla undertake a difficult mission of infiltrating the sun worshiping sect for stealing an important equipment that is required by their ship. For making this mission of stealing successful, the two decide to undergo a trial for getting chosen as the Moon and the Sun as these are seen as the elements of great honor for the said sect.

During the commencement of the trial, Ayla & Toby realize what they are going to lose if their secret mission ends up in a failure. Just like this pair, many other couples have enlisted themselves for the trial and they too appear to be equally desperate for winning the trial. Now, as per the rules of this trial, the participants are required to survive for a specified number of days by sitting under the scorching sun, be deprived of any sleep, and come out alive of a life-threatening maze. They wonder whether they will be able to do all this successfully. However, they know that if they want to do the impossible, they must stick together and work as a team.