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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Nightingales

1 - The Nightingale Girls (Aug-2012)
2 - The Nightingale Sisters (Apr-2013)
3 - The Nightingale Nurses (Oct-2013)
3.5 - A Child is Born (Nov-2013)
4 - Nightingales on Call (Apr-2014)
5 - A Nightingale Christmas Wish (Dec-2014)
6 - Nightingales at War (May-2015)
6.5 - Little Girl Lost (Oct-2015)
7 - Nightingales Under the Mistletoe (Nov-2015)
8 - A Nightingale Christmas Carol (Nov-2016)
9 - The Nightingale Christmas Show (Nov-2017)
10 - A Nightingale Christmas Promise (Oct-2018)
11 - Nightingale Wedding Bells (Oct-2019)

Steeple Street

1 - The Nurses of Steeple Street (Apr-2016)
2 - District Nurse on Call (Jul-2017)

The Yorkshire Blitz Trilogy

1 - A Mother's Journey (Feb-2020)
2 - A Sister's Wish (Jan-2022)
3 - A Daughter's Hope (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • "Written for children 1â€"5 Donna Douglas loves all kinds of animals, and this inspiring picture book for children reveals how important that love was when she was about to lose the family farm. How did the animals, and one old horse in particular, s...



  • Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather...



  • To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own... Violet The new night sister is not all that she seems. Who is she an...



  • 'Pay attention please, nurses. The next six months will be the most important of your lives' It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital. Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineer...



  • Christmas Eve, 1936 On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her m...



  • 1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nurses ... and new faces at the Nightingale Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their training. The two nurses couldn't seem more different, but th...



  • As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season. Ward sister Frannie Wallace is hoping she won’t have to live through another war like the one that claimed her beloved fiance. But wit...



  • As the war takes its toll, the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country Dora is the devoted mother of twin babies but, determined to help the war effort, she goes back to work at the Nightingale Hospital. More used to nights out in t...



  • A Christmas short story, available only in ebook, from the author of The Nightingale Girls , Nightingales On Call and Nightingales at War . It's Christmas time at The Nightingale Hospital and the children on Parry Ward are waiting eagerly for F...






  • Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightingale Hospital is...



  • Frankie Ford is honest and hardworking and has ambitions to become a ward sister at a prestigious London teaching hospital. But, hiding a secret, Frankie flees her comfortable home counties life to begin training as a district nurse in the poverty-st...



  • The war is drawing to a close, but the battle continues for the nurses of the Nightingale Hospital. With her husband Nick away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning, but finds herself in a difficult position when she is put in charg...



  • The world of district nursing, especially for those working in a mining town, is incredibly hard. The hours are long, the cases vast and the senior staff impossibly tough. But after a hellish six months finding their feet, the trainee nurses have lea...



  • THE BRAND NEW NIGHTINGALES NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS. _______________________It is Christmas, 1945. The war is over, but its scars remain. Matron Kathleen Fox has the job of putting the Nightingale Hospital back together....



  • For the first time, a Nightingale nurses novel set during the First World War. Follow the senior staff as they overcome the trials of their training years. From Sunday Times top ten bestselling author, Donna Douglas. East London, 1914: Britain is ...



  • A HEARTWARMING WARTIME TALE FEATURING THE NURSES OF THE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALBY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS________________________________________FOR THE NIGHTINGALE NURSES, THE WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING. . .East London, 1917. Anna ...



  • FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A dramatic new saga series, set during World War II, from the author of THE NIGHTINGALE GIRLSYorkshire, 1940. Edie Copeland has just arrived on Jubilee Row, carrying a suitcase and a secret.She left York and h...



  • *FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHTINGALE GIRLS, DONNA DOUGLAS*'A fascinating portrait of everyday life on the home front in wartime, with its hopes and hardships, and will leave readers counting down to the next visit to Jubilee Row.'...



  • *FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS*Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off an...






  • The beloved Sunday Times bestselling author is back with a new, long-awaited Nightingale novel._________________________It's 1957, and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale Hospital in London's East End......



  • Tearaway Viv’s fragile truce with her grandmother is threatened when her flighty mother suddenly shows up from America and expects to pick up where she left off. It’s what Viv’s always dreamed of - but is she ready for the drama Pau...



  • The second instalment of The Nightingale Daughters series from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife!_______________London's East End, 1957In the Nightingale Hospital, Matron Helen finds herself playing s...



  • A heartbreaking story of love and forgiveness from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife!_______________London's East End, 1940: a frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone, she ref...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donna Douglas has published 23 books.

The next book by Donna Douglas, A Nurse's Secret, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Donna Douglas, Miss Donna's Mulberry Acres Farm, was published in November 2011.

Yes. Donna Douglas has 3 series.