Here is the official synopsis…. Heartbreak", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outlander_(book_series)&oldid=985627302, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" (2010), a short story in the anthology, "Past Prologue" (2017), a short story published in the anthology, Frank Randall, Claire's 20th century husband, Brianna Randall, Claire and Jamie's daughter, Roger Wakefield, a 20th century historian, Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, Frank's sadistic 18th century ancestor, This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 00:34. Set against the War of the Regulation in North Carolina (the first tax-payer’s rebellion in the American colonies, and a precursor to the full-blown Revolution), the story deals with Jamie Fraser’s efforts to protect his family, build a community on Fraser’s Ridge, and keep his land—this last requiring him to walk a delicate tight-rope between the pressing urgency of the rebellion and the increasingly unsteady but still dangerously powerful government. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. The stories revolve around 20th century nurse Claire Randall. We hear Jamie’s story as he moves forward, trying to forge a life from the bits of his soul and his country that are left, and hear Claire’s brief recounting of the twenty years since she left him at Culloden, while Roger MacKenzie and Brianna (Claire and Jamie’s daughter) draw close to each other as they sleuth through the clues of the past, in an urgent hunt for Jamie Fraser. [34] The series premiered in the US on August 9, 2014 with Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan starring as Claire and Jamie. My shift was soaked through, and the cotton bodice clung between my breasts. I am currently writing and doing the historical research for this new novel. To decide whether I really wanted to do that for real.

The story unfolded from there in six more novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." OUTLANDER, which is published as Cross Stitch in the U.K. DRAGONFLY IN AMBER VOYAGER DRUMS OF AUTUMN THE FIERY CROSS A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES AN ECHO IN THE BONE WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD. Click here to view them. Anyway, the only way I’ve ever found of describing this book to anyone is to begin telling them the story. The other versions of DRAGONFLY are still available, so be sure you are ordering the new “25th Anniversary Edition” if it is the one you want. Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return. And if they do, will Claire go back to him? {g}  That is, the story is conveyed in visual images, augmented by dialogue. In 1946, after WW II, a young Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank. Well, they are very accurate), Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Military History (no, honest), Gay and Lesbian Fiction, and…Horror. Outlander is the first in a series of eight historical multi-genre novels by Diana Gabaldon. It was first published in the U.S.A. in 1990. . It was first published in the U.S.A. in March, 2015. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Voyager: A Novel (Outlander) (Mass Market Paperback), Read more on Amazon's Diana Gabaldon page, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. [35] On May 9, 2018, Starz renewed the series for a fifth and sixth season. There's a problem loading this menu right now. [13] As Gabaldon recalled, "I laughed and said, 'That’s the screwiest idea I’ve heard yet – go ahead.' In essence, these novels are Big, Fat, Historical Fiction, à la James Clavell and James Michener. I call the book “MOBY” for short. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Foreword: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, I Give You My Body (How I Write Sex Scenes), The Cannibal’s Art – How Writing Really Works, The Cannibal’s Art – Characterization (workshop outline with examples), The Cannibal’s Art – Dialogue (workshop outline), The Cannibal’s Art – Jamie and the Rule of Three, Methadone List: TALES FOR GULLIBLE CHILDREN, “The smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting 'Scrooge McDuck' comics.”—Salon.com, A time-hopping, continent-spanning salmagundi of genres.”, “These books have to be word-of-mouth books because they're too weird to describe to anybody.”, To learn what it took to write a novel, and. -Diana Publisher’s Description In OUTLANDER, the story of Claire Beauchamp Randall was introduced, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears .

One; Outlander Short Fiction The spin-off series currently consists of five novellas and three novels, which all take place between 1756 and 1761, during the events of Gabaldon's Voyager. She actually planned Outlander as her “practice” novel, and initially never meant to show it to anyone. Claire ... Book 2: Dragonfly in Amber (1992) Book 3: Voyager (1993) Book 4: …

My Own Heart’s Blood = MOHB = MOH-B = Moby. Gabaldon is currently writing the ninth novel, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Below is a list (and reading order) of books (with example of cover art) in my OUTLANDER series with links to their web pages for more information: OUTLANDER (also published in the U.K. under the title "CROSS STITCH") is the best-selling first novel in my Outlander series of books.

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Diana Gabaldon’s first Outlander novel was published back in 1991.

If you choose to read the Lord John stories as part of the Outlander series, you can read these novels after reading VOYAGER. The series of novels cannot be placed into a single genre. It is recommended that you read the books in the order they were published. My goals were:: I did, and I did—and here we all are, still trying to figure out what the heck you call books that nobody can describe, but that fortunately most people seem to enjoy. Not mountains, not armies. [12] With music by Kevin Walsh and lyrics by Mike Gibb, the project was approved by Gabaldon after Gibb had approached the author in Scotland with the idea to adapt her novel into a stage production. The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. [5][6] They can be generally categorized as historical mysteries, and the three novels are shorter and focus on fewer plot threads than the main Outlander books. There’s the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? With 25 million copies sold, Outlander is one of the best-selling book series of all time. In the greater Outlander Chronology, the Lord John Grey stories occur during the years covered in Voyager. Outlander Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels-Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize)-and one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion, as well as the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager. “Scottish Highlands, 1945. So they did, and the results were stunning. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

25th Anniversary Edition For those people who have been asking if/when Random House, my main publisher in the U.S.A., might be going to do special Anniversary editions of the books following OUTLANDER… yes, they are! GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE follows WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD, aka "MOBY," which was the eighth book in my OUTLANDER series. It was released in the U.S.A. and some international markets on October 24, 2017. Suddenly the proceedings are disrupted, as another prisoner makes a break for it–and Jamie, moved by the death of his friend, impulsively helps the man, a pirate named Stephen Bonnet, to escape; a […], THE FIERY CROSS is the fifth book in my OUTLANDER series of books, and follows DRUMS OF AUTUMN.
That’s the Prologue to A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES, the sixth novel in the bestselling OUTLANDER series of major novels (following THE FIERY CROSS). For those unfamiliar with the term, a graphic novel is—in essence—a comic book for grown-ups. There is one more addition to the OUTLANDER series— THE EXILE, a graphic novel. Published in 1991, it focuses on the Second World War-era nurse Claire Randall, who travels through time to 18th century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. [3] The eighth and most recent volume of the series, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, was published in 2014. The editor who invited me to do it (an opportunity I leapt at, as I grew up reading comic books, and in fact, used to write comic scripts for Walt Disney) asked for “a new Jamie and Claire story, but one set within the parameters of OUTLANDER.” To which I said, “Hmmmm….” And what I came up with is Jamie’s (and his godfather Murtagh’s) view of events—meaning that we see all the things Claire didn’t see, didn’t understand, or was kept out of. Thus begins the third book in the OUTLANDER series, in which we learn that—despite his best efforts—Jamie Fraser did not die on the battlefield at Culloden. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances." After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Where did the title come from? Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels-Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize)-and one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion, as well as the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager.

Frankly, I’ve never been able to describe this book in twenty-five words or less, and neither has anyone else in the twenty years since it was first published. To be honest, it would be easier to describe what doesn’t happen than what does. The books have sold over 25 million copies worldwide as of August 2014. Volume One of the OC is an updated and revised version of the original, single-volume OUTLANDISH COMPANION, first published in 1999. A caltrop resembles a child’s jack, […], The Eighth Book in the Outlander Series… The eighth major novel in the Outlander series of novels is titled WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD.