Emma Tennant

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Pride & Prejudice

1 - Pemberley: Or Pride & Prejudice Continued (Oct-1993)
2 - An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later (Dec-1994)

Multi-Author Series List

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Pemberley: Or Pride & Prejudice Continued (Oct-1993)
An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later (Dec-1994)

Jane Austen's Emma

Emma in Love (Aug-2013)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Bananas

    Bananas has earned itself a reputation as a remarkable literary journal and a galaxy of writers, new and established. Writers early works include: J.G. Ballard, Ted Hughes, Claud Cockburn, Sara Maitland, Tom Nairn, Hilary Bailey, Angela Carter, and m...

  • Wild nights

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    To the family in the house crouched between the hills, Aunt Zita's annual visits, like the north wind that accompanies her, bring chaos, terror and enchantment. Yet to the young narrator, Aunt Zita's visits herald every wild night of the imag...

  • Bad Sisters

  • The Half-Mother

  • The Adventures of Robina by Herself

    Robina is a red-haired young innocent, a Scottish orphan. At the age of fifteen, after a strict upbringing on a Border farm at the hands of her aunt and uncle, she is sent south, first to an eccentric Oxford Boarding school, then to a family in Pari...

  • Pemberley: Or Pride & Prejudice Continued

    Pride & Prejudice - 1
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    As Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice comes to a close, Elizabeth Bennet proudly announces her engagement to Mr. Darcy, boasting, "We are to be the happiest couple in the world." But after the nuptials, can a marriage between two people ...

  • An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later

    Pride & Prejudice - 2
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    In the author's second sequel, successor to the well-received Pemberley, young Master Edward Darcy makes trouble for the Darcy fortune and marriage by his determination to fight for Napoleon and his huge gambling debts....

  • Elinor and Marianne

    First published in 1996, this sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, written as an exchange of letters, Elinor and Marianne is the correspondence between the married Dashwood sisters â€" Mrs Brandon and Mrs Edward Ferrars. Passion, in the...

  • Strangers

    'So beautiful, so atmospheric, so eerie, so remote and revealing and, finally, so loving' - ELAINE DUNDY 'A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family' - ANTONIA FRASER Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a noveli...



  • Sylvia and Ted

    A fictional re-creation of the turbulent courtship, marriage, and separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.In intense, dramatic prose, Emma Tennant unfolds a story of passion, conflict, and betrayal. Creating a series of unforgettable images s...

  • Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story

    Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside,...

  • Felony

    "Felony" is the story of the literary treachery that took place at No. 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879. It is also the story on Henry Jame's b...

  • The Harp Lesson

    Set in Revolutionary France, this atmospheric novel explores the life of `La Belle Pamela'. As a child Pamela Sims is taken from England to the French court, where she is brought up in luxury as the illegitimate daughter of Madame de Genlis. Explorin...

  • French Dancers Bastard

  • Thornfield Hall

    Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside, sh...

  • The Autobiography of the Queen

    The Queen goes AWOL. No one can find her: where is she going and why ?

    In Emma Tennant's hilarious 'autobiography' of Queen Elizabeth, the monarch moves to the Caribbean island of St Lucia, where, after more than half a century...

  • Seized

    15-year-old Alice is sent to Corfu for the summer holidays to stay with Cara, a family friend. She finds herself isolated and vulnerable and soon suspects that all is not as it appears. Is she being held a prisoner, and will she discover what really ...

  • Diana

    When Price Harry arrives at Balmoral to convalesce after a bungee jumping accident in Bali, he is accompanied by Sister Julia, a plain-looking nurse who dotes on her charge. This witty and sympathetic account of Sister Julia's experiences among the c...

  • The Beautiful Child

    From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry James

    The Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified thr...



  • Two Women of London

    'You can't imagine what it's like when your youth comes back - and beauty, and more... I found out that if I took the pills I could turn - just like that - into the person I had been. Yes, into me! Eliza! Where had I gone? Who had I been?' Emma Ten...

  • Queen of Stones

    On the weekend of October 17 1981, a party of girls who had set out on a sponsored walk from Beaminster became separated from their leader and disappeared into the worst fog ever recorded on the west coast of Dorset. For days search parties of anxiou...

  • Black Marina

  • Heathcliff's Tale

    Heathcliff's Tale is the story of the haunting of Henry Newby, a young man despatched to Haworth Parsonage shortly after the death of Emily Bronte to retrieve a novel by Ellis Bell for his uncle, publisher of Wuthering Heights. He soon finds himself ...

  • Hotel de Dream

    It is barely surprising that the lodgers at the Westringham have busy dream lives: it is a place from which anyone would want to escape. But the kaleidoscope begins to turn: the dreams begin to defy their dreamers. They start to merge......

  • Confessions of a Sugar Mummy

    What do older women want? And older than what, anyway? Love, flattery, an end to baby-sitting, a night out without falling asleep? Or the very last chance of gratifying desire, of finding a soul-mate - even if it means paying over the odds...? Confes...

  • The Crack

    EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Look! Look what’s happened! A crack has opened in the Thames! Hampstead uplifted high in the sky! Watch the turmoil spread. See the loony psychoanalysts lead their demented flock around the cracked and broken streets. A religiou...

  • The Colour of Rain

    First published in 1963 under the pen name of Catherine Aydy, this is Tennant's first novel. It recounts episodes in the lives of a group of privileged, empty people. It is a soap opera of childish adults, moving from one diversion to the next, prete...

  • Tess

    In Tess, Tennant offers us an interpretation of Hardy's novel that places the real women in the author's life at its centre. Tess is based on Hardy's real-life obsession with a milkmaid named Augusta Way, who became the model for his tragic heroine T...

  • Emma in Love

    Jane Austen's Emma

    This is the story of Emma two years after she has married Mr Knightley. There is harmony between them, but Emma is bored. Mr Knightley is affectionate, but in reality he is an old friend, who has, in his own words, ‘lectured and blamed’ Emma, six...



  • Hitler's Girls

    Adolf Hitler’s secret mistress, an upstanding member of the British aristocracy, gives birth to a daughter. The child is whisked away at infancy and raised as an orphan. She is protected from the truth concerning her origins, but that doesn’t pre...

  • An Unequal Marriage

    Mr Darcy and Elizabeth now have two children, Miranda and Edward. Miranda is a model daughter, well attuned to life at splendid Pemberley and, were it not for her sex, would make a perfect heir. Edward, alas, would not, and as he and his grandmother,...

  • Family Scenes

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Emma Tennant has published 32 books.

Emma Tennant does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Unequal Marriage, was published in September 2014.

The first book by Emma Tennant, Bananas, was published in November 1977.

Yes. Emma Tennant has 1 series.
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