Fay Weldon

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1973
  • Latest Book:
    October 2018
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Fay Weldon (91) - An English author, playwright and essayist.

Born: Franklin Birkinshaw on 22 September 1931 in Birmingham, England.

Died: 4 January 2023 at a nursing home in Northampton, England, at 91.

Full Series List in Order

Love and Inheritance Trilogy

1 - Habits of the House (Jan-2013)
2 - Long Live the King (May-2013)
3 - The New Countess (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Down Among the Women

    Respectable wife, unmarried mother, divorcee, femme fatale - these are roles that society demands from Scarlet, Jocelyn, Helen, Susan and Audrey. But things do not slot neatly into pigeon holes, and as the women negotiate around the events in their l...

  • Watching Me, Watching You: Stories

    A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.`Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, ...

  • The President's Child

    A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us.Isabel Acre's journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and alley...

  • The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

    This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:
    Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ". . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage ...

  • Words of Advice

    During a busy weekend in the country mansion of a nouveau-riche millionaire, nineteen-year-old Elsa, currently living with a pompous West End antiques dealer, is made privy to a lurid, cautionary tale involving the millionaire's crippled wife...

  • Remember Me

    Madeleine wants to love, be remembered—and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn’t tend) to Hilary...

  • Rebecca West

  • Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

    Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and o...

  • The Shrapnel Academy

    A weekend in the country erupts into a free-for-all of mutiny, sex, and murder On the anniversary of the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo, an assortment of unusual dinner guests gather at a remote country house to pay homage to Henry Shrapnel, inventor ...



  • The Rules of Life

    From beyond the grave, a woman recounts the story of her life in this captivating novella by bestselling author Fay WeldonFrom her lofty perch in heaven amid the GSWITS (Great Screen Writers in the Sky), Gabriella Sumpter prepares to tell the story o...

  • The Hearts and Lives of Men

    It’s 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon’s enduring story of lust, marriage, family, art, avarice, ambition, betrayal, and true loveClifford Wexford and Helen Lally meet at a party and fall passionately ...

  • The Heart of the Country

    Abandoned by her husband, Natalie Harris feels terribly wronged despite her own long-term extramarital affair and, unable to handle the responsibilities of home and family by herself, joins forces with a welfare mother to enact revenge on their oppre...

  • Wolf the Mechanical Dog

  • The Cloning of Joanna May

    Fay Weldon delivers a brilliant novel that lays bare the secret hearts of women and menWhen Joanna May’s husband, nuclear entrepreneur Carl, discovered that she was having an affair, he filed for divorced and had her lover killed. Now, sixty-ye...

  • Leader of the Band

    Fay Weldon mines the fields of sexuality, procreation, and astronomy in her liberating novel about the ongoing quest for self-fulfillment Sandra Harriswife, astronomer (known for discovering the planet Athena), television phenomenon, and professio...

  • Polaris and Other Stories

    Fay Weldon journeys to the wilds of Scotland and far-off Tasmania in these twelve tales of sexual politics and marital and political warfare In “Christmas Lists—A Seasonal Story,” the endless lists created by a suburban couple becom...

  • Party Puddle

  • Puffball

    A young couple’s dream of a rustic idyll turns into a battle between good and evil in Fay Weldon’s novel about passion, deceit, and witchcraft Liffey longs to live in the country. Her dream comes true when she and her husband, Richard, re...

  • The Wife's Revenge and Other Stories



  • Praxis

    Raised by a mad mother and a half-mad sister, abandoned by her father, Praxis Duveen is a master of the art of survival. Her life, indeed, has been full: two marriages, unsuccessful; a brief but profitable career as a prostitute; a little dabbling in...

  • Darcy's Utopia

    Eleanor Darcy, a woman of marginal genealogy and looks that play better than they should, is married to the economist to whom the Prime Minister listens. Determined to rip apart the old order and start fresh, Eleanor becomes the serpent -- or angel -...

  • Moon over Minneapolis: or Why She Couldn't Stay

    A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and love...

  • Life Force

    Weldon's latest novel is about the glorious pleasure of sexuality and the havoc it can wreak when we succumb to it. It's a story about marriage and infidelity, and the fact that one occasionally requires the other for survival. When Mr. Leslie Beck r...

  • Female Friends

    In this novel the author explores the intimate affairs of Marjorie, Chloe and Grace, who grew up together in wartime in a small village in Essex, and whose friendship survives the erosion and intrusion of shared lovers, turbulent marriages and clamou...

  • Trouble

    Annette Horrocks has every reason to be happy. She lives in a lovely London house with her devoted husband, Spicer; her first novel is about to be published; and after ten years of trying, she is finally pregnant. But Spicer is cruel and distant. He ...

  • Affliction

    They seem the perfect couple, and after ten years together, are expecting their first child. But on the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye as he leaves for the office, and psychiatrists, fortune-teller...

  • Angel, All Innocence

  • Splitting

    A sharp and funny portrait of divorce. Splitting captures brilliantly the chaotic rhythms of a woman in crisis as it chronicles Angelica's disintegration into a handful of a "perforated" personalities. No one writes with shrewder insight about women ...

  • Nobody Likes Me!

    When an angry Rex is told he may not attend a party for which he has already torn up the invitation, he retreats under his bed and dreams of being invited to a series of parties from which he is ejected because of his misbehavior...



  • Worst Fears

    From the hilarious opening to the satisfying final conflagration, Fay Weldon's Worst Fears is a taut, scathing revelation of the nature of marital intimacy. When Alexandra returns from her stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously de...

  • Wicked Women

    Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journalist; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and Davida, who are appalled when their increasingly wild...

  • Big Girls Don't Cry

    This latest offering from critically acclaimed author Fay Weldon is a darkly comic romp through the minefields of friendship and feminism. On a balmy evening in 1971, five women meet in a cramped living room in the suburbs of London. Tired of their h...

  • A Hard Time to Be a Father: Stories

    Fay Weldon won the Silver Pen Award for her last collection of stories, Wicked Women.

    Here are nineteen sparkling new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire and necessary...

  • The Bulgari Connection

    “[A] hilarious page-turner…Weldon’s diabolically clever satire of greed, fashion, sex, and age is smart entertainment of the highest order.” -- Booklist Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her e...

  • Rhode Island Blues

    A move into an old folks’ home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter in this “wry and witty” novel (Entertainment Weekly).On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor -- troubled by he...

  • Mantrapped

    The Booker Prize nominee’s quirky novel about a man and woman trading bodies, supplemented with her personal commentary: “Tremendously fun to read.” -- Booklist Described as a “reality novel,” Mantrapped reveals, in alternating chapter...

  • The Fat Woman's Joke

    In flashback and from the depths of her basement apartment in Earls Court, Esther describes the history of her marital disaster -- in between her consumption of chocolate cake, tinned fruit, sweet sherry, and a host of other high calorie confections....

  • She May Not Leave

    Be careful who you invite into the bosom of your home â€" she may never leave…A novel from Fay Weldon, the writer who knows women better than they know themselves.Hattie has a difficult if loving partner, Martyn, an absentee mother, Lallie, and a c...

  • The Spa

    Ten women indulge themselves -- and divulge their secrets -- in this witty novel: “Immensely entertaining…The entire gamut of the female experience is covered.” -- The Times (UK)In the lull between Christmas and New Year’s, ten high-achieving...



  • The Spa Decameron

    Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives....

  • The Stepmother's Diary

    I read my daughter's diaries the other day. Let me share with you. You may think you know pretty much what's going on in your own family. Believe me, you do not.'Sappho was so happy when she married Gavin. She was in love and it seemed that at last e...

  • Chalcot Crescent

    By 2013, capitalism has collapsed in Europe, and England has turned to protectionist policies, communal farms, and an intrusive National Unity Government that feeds its citizens National Meat Loaf and monitors people by street-corner CiviCams. In thi...

  • Big Women

  • Love and Friendship

    Written in a series of letters to the daughter of a friend, Love and Friendship tells of a young girl's path to betrayal, by way of a seemingly ecstatic marriage. It is accompanied by The Three Sisters, another expertly crafted epistolary novel. When...

  • Habits of the House

    Love and Inheritance Trilogy - 1

    From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is...

  • Letters to Alice

    Taking its inspiration from Jane Austen’s relationship with her niece, Letters to Alice follows eighteen-year-old Alice and her “Aunt Fay,” whose letters preach the value of great art With the dire warning, “You must read, Alice, before it...

  • Growing Rich

    Satan tempts mortal man and woman in Fay Weldon's witty and wildly inventive riff on Doctor Faustus Selling one's soul to the devil takes on new meaning in this fiendishly clever page-turner by Fay Weldon. Once upon a time, in the dullest town im...

  • Long Live the King

    Love and Inheritance Trilogy - 2

    From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs -- the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century. As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful fo...

  • Kehua!

    “As a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire” -- from the award-winning author of Death of a She Devil (The Telegraph).   Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, red...



  • The New Countess

    Love and Inheritance Trilogy - 3

    England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a lavish visit from King Edward VII and his mistress just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhau...

  • Mischief

    'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN.

    'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR.

    'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN.

    'Outrageously...

  • Before the War

    London, 1922. It’s a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late. Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealt...

  • Death of a She Devil

    In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front...

    Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has w...

  • After the Peace

    How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Fay Weldon has published 54 books.

Fay Weldon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, After the Peace, was published in October 2018.

The first book by Fay Weldon, Down Among the Women, was published in November 1973.

Yes. Fay Weldon has 1 series.
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