Roger Taylor

Biography

Roger Taylor was born in Heywood, Lancashire, England and now lives in the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, instructor/student in aikido, and an enthusiastic and loud but bone-jarringly inaccurate piano player.

Ostensibly fantasy, his fiction is much more than it seems and has been called ‘subtly subversive’. He wrote four books between 1983 and 1986 and built up a handsome rejection file before the third was accepted by Headline to become the first two books of the Chronicles of Hawklan.

Where to buy in print

Books

Newman
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 124,270. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2022 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
John Newman’s family has a secret, a huge secret. And when John takes control of the family business, his actions will have world spanning repercussions. Newman is an unusual and utterly enthralling family saga - a scathing but hopeful story of ordinary people caught up in both crime and political and governmental corruption.
Travellers
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 89,350. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2020 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Refugees from the worlds of the galactic centre are seeking a planet on which to make a new home far from the reach of pursuers. They are running dangerously low on resources, and with nowhere else to go the only suitable planet they have found is already inhabited. Its civilisation is dangerously unstable.
The Return of the Sword
Series: The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 5. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 152,090. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The final volume in the epic fantasy series "The Chronicles of Hawklan".
Caddoran
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 124,130. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
An independent novel set in the world of The Chronicles of Hawklan.
Arash-Felloren
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 153,040. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
An independent novel set in the world of Hawklan. Sinister changes are afoot in Arash-Felloren. Pinnatte, the street thief, has been marked for a fearful destiny. Imorren, the first woman to lead the Kyrosdyn - the crystal workers - has secretly ordered the transfer of the Jyolan Fighting Pits to Barran, the mercenary who controls most of the crystal trade. It will give him great power...
Ibryen
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 157,150. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
An independent novel set in the world of Hawklan... Count Ibryen has been driven from his ancestral land by the Gevethen -- strange and powerful usurpers. He and his loyal followers have taken refuge in the mountains, and are fighting a relentless but failing guerilla war.
Whistler
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 174,050. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
A sequel to The Chronicles of Hawklan. Allyn Vredech, priest, fights for his faith and his sanity against a world-destroying force.
Valderen
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 130,520. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
A sequel to The Chronicles of Hawklan. Chilled and cowed by the violent fate of Garren and Katrin Yarrance and the mysterious disappearance of Farnor, the villagers can only stand by helpless as Rannick, increasingly unstable, and with his terrifying powers growing daily, turns his ambitions towards the land beyond the valley.
Farnor
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 157,350. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
A sequel to The Chronicles of Hawklan. Only Farnor has the power to oppose the menace from outside his quiet community...
Dream Finder
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 218,190. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
Dream Finder is a powerful novel of good and evil set in the world of Hawklan.
Into Narsindal [Chronicles of Hawklan #4]
Series: The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 4. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 201,120. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The fourth book in the spellbinding epic fantasy series "The Chronicles of Hawklan"
The Waking of Orthlund [Chronicles of Hawklan #3]
Series: The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 175,990. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The third book in the thrilling epic fantasy "The Chronicles of Hawklan"
The Fall of Fyorlund [Chronicles of Hawklan #2]
Series: The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 159,240. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The second book of the thrilling epic fantasy series "The Chronicles of Hawklan".
The Keep
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 191,150. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Isolated and deep in the mountains, the Keep is a disturbing place. Why would the New Order want it, and for what? But you didn’t ask questions the way things were. You kept your head down and did as you were told. Just do your job, Josyff kept reminding himself. Yet there were strange problems with his work... and dreams... and him... and the building itself -- massive, yet, somehow, changing.
The Call of the Sword [Chronicles of Hawklan #1]
Series: The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,330. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2011 by Mushroom Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The first book in the epic fantasy series "The Chronicles of Hawklan".