Barbara Anderson

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1992
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Girls High

    A novel made up of a group of linked stories set in and around a girls' high school. The action swings backwards and forwards in time as the central characters try to sort out their wants and desires against the often competing demands of lovers, sup...

  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife

    Victoria University Press is enormously proud to publish a new edition of one of New Zealand?s favourite novels, published to critical acclaim here and in the UK and US, and winner of the Wattie Award in 1992.

    ?The promise that was evident...

  • All the Nice Girls

    Barbara Anderson hits top form with All the Nice Girls, her third novel. A romance, spiked with feminism and deeply perceptive observations of married life, this book has been described as "the most perceptive portrait of an errant spouse since M...

  • Collected Stories

    Comprising stories from other volumes as well as never-before-published tales, this collection of short stories mixes wit with warmth. Anderson's rich characters are set against a range of locations and time periods, from New Zealand's country farms ...

  • Change Of Heart

    Oliver Gurth Perkins is seventy-five, and the darkest cloud on his horizon is that the local bookshop no longer stocks paperbacks of the Times cryptic crosswords. He has an easy companionship with his wife; his dental practice is undemanding; his son...

  • The House Guest

    Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As ususal Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the...

  • Proud Garments

    A wickedly funny story of family love and betrayal which moves from the world of do-it-yourself property development in 1990s Auckland to fabric mills and fashion showrooms of Milan. Rich, comic, heart-breaking, Anderson's prose has the power to enth...

  • Abracham the Leprechaun

    Abracham the Leprechaun is a fairy tale that is considered to be a delightful story that seeks to tell the plight of the Leprechauns that escapes the evil mortals that are bent on their extinction from their hometown of Analiae in the Land of O'Nefia...

  • Classic Fairy Tales

    A collection of twenty classic fairy tales. Classic Fairy Tales is a creation of mine that I have sought to develop in order to delight the children with fantasy, myth and magic that I hope one day will be the choice for fairy tale readers around the...



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  • Leroy's Blues

    Leroy's Blues is a story about a black man in the Deep South when racism, violence and the non-enforcement of the civil rights and enforcement acts were practiced. A story about Leroy Bailey faced with racism with his dog Stoten....

  • Abijah's Fairy Tale

    Abijah's Fairy Tale is a story about a young girl whose wishes, dreams and aspirations for the future is for unconditional love. Abijah is a black South African girl who questions the political upheavals of Africa's past. A tale that fulfills the ide...

  • Billie's Love

    Billie's Love is a story about Catherine Pennington nicknamed Billie by her friends who grows up in a wealthy neighborhood in Philidelphia. At the age of seven she visits Louisiana with her parents and nanny. She meets Weiss, the son of a wealthy Ger...

  • Celestial

    Aigion and Deek are two Gods sent from Urck to the Enchanted Forest. Aigion is captured by Xecorpidious and Deek by Nactavious the witch and her creatures in the Enchanted Forest. A superb spellbinding plot that will take you on a magical journey....

  • Doozy Coal Aka Licorice

    Doozy Coal brought up in New York lives with his family in an apartment building that houses low to moderate income families. Unsure of what career to take he ends up taking tap and jaz classes and finds out that he is very good. He takes dancing cla...

  • The Mad Hatter of Musketry

    The Mad Hatter of Musketry is the first book in a series for children. The children will love the antics of the Mad Hatter as they visit with him in his Fairy Tale land of Inflorenscence. It is a magical land where the children go to escape for fun a...

  • Ragamuffin, a Fairy Tale

    Ragamuffin A Fairy Tale is a story about a teenager faced with the disappearance of her parents, finds happiness with a wealthy child, Natalie Lamast. Ragamuffin homeless meets Natalie, who falls in love with her. Natalie takes her home to her mansio...

  • Rainbow the Clown

    Rainbow the Clown is a story book for young children. With beautiful colorful images, this book will provide the children with a wonderful, entertaining story that will delight its readers with a visit to Rainbow by Madden of Musketry....

  • Saint's Not!

    Saint's Not! Is a story about Lark Sutton, an eight year old boy that always finds himself playing pranks on the neighbors, friends and others. His friends, Justin, Febe and Tilly contains funny scenes with them at home ending with them at Saturday M...



  • Xaymaca

    Xaymaca (Jamaica's) history has very little data on the Arawak Indians. I therefore wrote this book as a fictional account of what may have transpired with the predominately African presence which includes the Spanish, Indians, Chinese, and Caucasian...

  • Morgan a Caribbean Fairy Tale

  • Georgette's Magical Adventure

    Georgette's Magical Adventure, a beautiful magical story will delight and charm the reader into becoming avid fans of my fairy tales. This book is a stunning magical adventure; a fairy tale aimed to provide the reader with a breathtaking, glittering ...

  • Madden of Musketry

    Madden of Musketry is the first book in a series for children. The children will love the antics of Madden as they visit with him in his Fairy Tale Land of Inflorenscence. It is a magical land where the children go to escape for fun and activities wi...

  • Aigion the Fairy Tale

    Aigion, the Fairy Tale Books III-IV is destined to be a favorite with children, teenagers and adults. Aigion and Deek are two Gods sent from Urck to the Enchanted Forest on a quest. Aigion is captured by Xecorpidious and Deek by a witch and her creat...

  • The

    Taylor Swine is a little pig with a big dream.She wants to be a politician.

    Even though all the other animals make fun of her, Taylor Swine is determined to make her dream come true-even if it means running away from home. One day after she...

  • A Magical Adventure

    Georgette, receives a ring at Christmas which proves to be the most valuable gift that she could ever receive; takes her on a magical adventure with Brent, her brother, Taidi her teddy bear and Bissie her dog....

  • Princess

    Princess is a story about a beautiful poor 16-year old girl discovered by the queen's official outside her home; bets that she would not be able to play a game that would make him laugh, she doesn't, but tricks him into her and her family visiting th...

  • Just Ducky

    Little Ducky thinks he is a roosterIn this heart-warming story, young readers will fall in love with Little Ducky and his barnyard friends. This richly illustrated duck tale teaches children an all-important truth about being content with the way the...

  • Whoo Am I?

    When a baby owl falls out of the nest, he begins his adventures and search for belonging. Whoo Am I? is the sweet story of a baby owl high up in a tree with his family, who longs to see the world below. His adventures begin when he accidentally tumb...



  • Deja Vu

    It is 2015 and Author Betsy Jane Blaine is writing her first novel exploring the possible explanation of the phenomena of déjà vu (The feeling that you have seen or experienced something previously). The story begins in 17th century Plymout...

  • In the Company of Women

    Barbara Anderson's debut novel follows the story of Joanna, who is mentioned in the Gospels as a supporter of Jesus despite her affluent status as a member of Herod Agrippa's court. A woman of her time and culture, and trained as a midwife, she dares...

  • A Fairy Tale

  • Fairy Tales

  • I Think We Should Go into Jungle

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  • The Swing Around

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    New Zealand twenty years ago, when margarine was sold on prescription in pharmacies and protective tariffs ruled- The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade, an ex-dairy farmer called Hamish Carew, sets off on a 'Swing Around' of New Zealand...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Anderson has published 35 books.

Barbara Anderson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fairy Tales, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Barbara Anderson, Girls High, was published in February 1992.

No. Barbara Anderson does not write books in series.
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