Grace Thompson

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Badger's Brook

1 - The House by the Brook (Aug-2004)
2 - A Girl Called Hope (Apr-2005)
3 - A New Beginning (Jul-2005)
4 - The Heart of the Home (Jan-2006)
5 - False Friends (Dec-2009)

Holidays at Home

1 - Wait Till Summer (Jul-2001)
2 - Swingboats on the Sand (May-2001)
3 - Waiting for Yesterday (Oct-2001)
4 - Day Trippers (Aug-2002)
5 - Unwise Promises (Dec-2002)
6 - Street Parties (Feb-2004)

Pendragon Island

1 - Corner of a Small Town (Jun-1998)
2 - The Weston Girls (May-2016)
3 - Unlocking the Past (Feb-1998)
4 - Maisie's Way (Nov-1998)
5 - A Shop in the High Street (May-1999)
6 - Sophie Street (Jul-1999)

The Valley Sagas

1 - Welcome in the Valley (Feb-1992)
2 - Valley Affairs (Jun-1990)
3 - The Changing Valley (Nov-2016)
4 - Valley in Bloom (Oct-1994)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Valley Affairs

    The Valley Sagas - 2

    A touching story of Welsh village life.Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly, with her shrewd eye, can predict the surprises in store for her family and friends.A new year brings new faces: Maurice Davies i...

  • Welcome in the Valley

    The Valley Sagas - 1

    An emotional story of ordinary people and their far-from-ordinary lives.A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community â€" and none more so than Nelly Luke, the cheerful Cockney widow who made a ramshackle cottage her cosy, if unconventional,...

  • The Boy Sarah

  • Family Pride

    All’s fair in love, war, and bakingA delightful standalone Grace Thompson saga set during World War IIGilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street, in the same Welsh seaside town, is the rival bakery: Gree...

  • Valley in Bloom

    The Valley Sagas - 4

    Every village has its secrets… the charming conclusion to the Valley sagasAs 1954 draws to an end, the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creeping lethargy as the villagers stay in watching their new TV sets, instead o...

  • Daisie's Ark

  • Search for a Shadow

    A captivating mystery from the bestselling and much-loved saga writer Grace ThompsonOn the last day of her holiday, Rosemary Roberts meets an intriguing American in the foyer of her London hotel. By some extraordinary slice of fortune, Larry Madison-...

  • Ice Cream in Winter

    When tragedy strikes, comfort comes from an unlikely place…Christmas, 1940. As the festive season approaches in a small Welsh village, two friends, Patricia and Vanessa, fall for the same man. Vanessa will stop at nothing to win his affections, but...

  • Missing the Moment

    Can she choose between family and love?Seven years ago, Charlotte Russell’s father walked out on her family. Ever since, the task of caring for her bitter mother and sick uncle have fallen heavily on Charlotte’s shoulders.If only she had agreed t...



  • The Weston Women

  • The Homecoming

    What secrets are hidden in post-war Swansea? The war is over, and life seems simple for Lydia: working at the Swansea market and waiting for her sweetheart, Glyn, to come home and marry her. But when Glyn returns, he leaves Lydia for another woman. S...

  • Unlocking the Past

    Pendragon Island - 3

    Times are changing in Pendragon Island...Poachers and dealmakers, the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law.As rationing finally draws to an end, the tight-knit community finds itself coming to terms with a new worl...

  • Corner of a Small Town

    Pendragon Island - 1

    Even the most idyllic towns hold dark secrets...Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays, with a stretch of clean golden sand and a glorious funfair nearby.Yet for one local family, the happy holiday atmosphere risks becoming a cruel joke, ...

  • Maisie's Way

    Pendragon Island - 4

    From the bestselling author of Wait Till Summer and The House by the Brook, the captivating fourth novel in the Pendragon Island saga seriesWhen Masie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island, she causes unrest wit...

  • Summer of Secrets

    In a small seaside village in Wales everyone has secrets, but how long can they be kept?After tragedy strikes and Bettrys Hopkyns loses her sister, she is determined to raise Eirlys's daughter Cheryl. She is also duty-bound to uncover the identity of...

  • A Shop in the High Street

    Pendragon Island - 5

    Family rivalries and bitter disputes set a once-peaceful town alight in the fifth of Grace Thompson’s well-loved Pendragon Island sagasEdward Jenkins has long dreamt of opening a sports shop in the small Welsh town of Pendragon Island. So, when Edw...

  • Sophie Street

    Pendragon Island - 6

    The final instalment of Grace Thompson’s celebrated Pendragon Island sagasJanet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married, but Mair, the daughter of the local police constable, does not seem to be the wisest choice. And an...

  • The Tangled Web

    Unraveling the past comes at a price…Supporting her brother between his spells in prison costs Amanda Clifford more than money. She loses friends and always has to move. But he’s the only family she’s ever known.Until, that is, she’s told tha...

  • Swingboats on the Sand

    Holidays at Home - 2

    A loving family is the greatest giftIn 1940, foreign travel is no longer feasible due to the War, so “holidays at home” enjoy a new lease of life, meaning business is booming for Piper’s Café at St David's Wells. However, not everyone in the f...



  • Wait Till Summer

    Holidays at Home - 1

    When war threatens, hope will keep them aliveIn 1939, with the war having been declared, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St David’s Wells. When Eirlys Price convinces her parents to take in three young children, she never imagine...

  • Waiting for Yesterday

    Holidays at Home - 3

    Even war won’t stop her chasing her dreamShirley Downs has always known she was no ordinary girl. But when she enters and wins a singing contest, she begins to realise that her talent is really something special. However, it is 1941, and a career o...

  • The Sandwich Girl

    When Roma Powell's father remarried and moved to England with his new wife and baby daUghter, she stayed in Wales with her Auntie Tilly. Now it is 1980, Roma is twenty-four, and the tables have turned: Auntie Tilly is elderly and infirm and Roma feel...

  • Day Trippers

    Holidays at Home - 4

    A little bit of laughter will always see you throughSt David’s Wells blossoms in the English tourist trade of the war years. The Castle family run the rides and stalls, struggling to manage without their absent sons, and amid tragedies and anxietie...

  • Unwise Promises

    Holidays at Home - 5

    To honour her promise, must she give up her dreams?When Audrey Castle finally marries her sweetheart, Wilf Thomas, she begins to regret her promise to always help out at the Castle's family cafe. When her future dramatically changes, Audrey is even m...

  • An Army of Smiles

    Three girls go to war and find true friendshipEthel runs away from a violent father, a man so fierce he beat her fiancé senseless. Gorgeous Kate leaves her doting parents and their grocery store. Shy and sheltered Rosie, who has grown up with her gr...

  • Street Parties

    Holidays at Home - 6

    As war rages, a husband’s love becomes everythingWith the war drawing to a close, St David’s Wells prepares to welcome the soldiers home. Everyone is looking forward to a new dawn.But Alice Castle is suspicious of a strange woman, Netta, who is t...

  • The House by the Brook

    Badger's Brook - 1

    Badgers Brook: more than a home, a way of life.Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can’t help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. He’s increasingly prone to drink and gambling, and ha...

  • A Girl Called Hope

    Badger's Brook - 2

    Badgers Brook once again provides sanctuary for a family in needMarried life hasn't been easy for Hope Murton â€" her mother-in-law, Marjorie, is overbearing and critical, and Hope's husband, Ralph, refuses to stand up for himself. Eventually Hope pe...

  • A New Beginning

    Badger's Brook - 3

    Badgers Brook offers her the chance for a fresh start.As the Second World War ends, Sophie Daniels quits the WAAF with nowhere to go. She wanders around the country searching for a place where she can settle, living in bedsits, barns, and small guest...



  • The Heart of the Home

    Badger's Brook - 4

    Can a young woman overcome the tension between her work and home?Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency ever since she left school. While happy there, she knows she must carve a career of her own, so lands a job with Cwm Derw’s Ace ...

  • Around Another Corner

    Ancret has a gift: the hats she creates are the most beautiful and fun designs this side of Ascot. She just needs two things for her life to be perfect: for her mummys boy boyfriend Jonathan to stop badgering her to give up her ambitions and marry hi...

  • Friends and Secrets

    A saga of friendship from an ever-popular authorIn their favourite café, a group of female friends meet regularly to discuss their troubles; but even friends can’t always tell each other the truth. Cynthia is happily married to her lifelong sweeth...

  • Time To Move On

    Seranne Laurence is furious when her mother announces she is to marry the latest in a long line of unsuitable men-friends. She soon realises that she hasn't the right to interfere in her mother's life but that means she must leave the tea rooms she a...

  • The Runaway

    Faith Pryor has always run away when things become difficult, whether it be from care homes or foster parents. She always lived in the hope she would find the family she had lost during the chaos of the war. Then she ran away from her fiancé Matt, b...

  • False Friends

    Badger's Brook - 5

    Lowri Vaughan is in need of refuge â€" where better to find it than Badgers Brook?Rumours abound that her father is a fraudster, maybe even a murderer, but while he is indeed locked up, Lowri and her mother know he’s an innocent man. Some gossip-se...

  • Facing the World

    Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin, who had gone away to college when under suspicion of burglary. She had faced the gossips alone when their baby was born, and ignored the worrying rumours about him.Rhys's father, Gwily...

  • Gull Island

    The year is 1917, and Barbara Jones is shocked to be told that she is carrying a child. Her boyfriend is a soldier and there is no one to whom she can turn for support. Fortunately, the generous Carey family give Barbara a home in a derelict house on...

  • Goodbye to Dreams

    In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors, Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop. Since their mother left them, they have lived above the shop with Myfanwy, a six-year-old they adopted when her parents died. The business is succes...

  • Paint on the Smiles

    Cecily and Ada Owen's shop is very successful. Their reliable deliveries and service is valued by cafes, tea stalls and shops on the Pleasure Beach during the summer months. However, things turn sour when Ada's husband, Phil Spencer, comes out of pri...



  • Nothing Is Forever

    Ruth has looked after her brothers for ten years since the death of their parents and believes that her role as head of the family will continue for the rest of her life. With two of her brothers already married and living away she has only her young...

  • Pity the Lonely Dreamers

    Valentina's mother had always made it clear to her that her brother, Michael, was the favourite child. So, when the opportunity comes for Valentina to leave South Wales behind, and head to London, she grasps it with both hands. Living in the midst of...

  • The End of a Journey

    Zena Martin and her brother, Greg, are content with their lives and plans for their future: Zena and Jake Williams are about to announce their engagement, and Greg hopes to persuade Rose Conelly to meet his family and begin the next stage of their re...

  • Last Year

    “Aaron…” Mr. Anderson’s voice was solemn, the boy looked up curiously. For a time they stared at one another, and Aaron frowned at his teacher’s hesitance. Finally, his mouth opened, and the words slipped out, “Have you considered applyin...

  • The Weston Girls

    Pendragon Island - 2

    Beautiful, rich, and popular: the Weston Girls seem to have it all… until they fall in love with the wrong menThe Weston family have always pinned their hopes for creating a dynasty on their glamorous granddaughters. But Joan and Megan â€" confiden...

  • The Changing Valley

    The Valley Sagas - 3

    The outside world is coming to the Welsh valleys…The small South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace, a gentle backwater where the rhythms of life flow at a time-honoured pace. But times are changing and, although Nelly Luke an...

  • The Posthorn Inn

    A charming historical tale of smuggling, village gossip and romance on the rugged Welsh coast, perfect for fans of Poldark The enigmatic Barrass delivers post in the village of Mumbles. He works long hours for little pay, and his home is a cold, damp...

  • Summer's Last Retreat

    The wonderfully atmospheric follow-up to The Posthorn Inn from bestselling saga writer Grace Thompson On the wild and restless Welsh coast in the early years of the nineteenth century, illegal smuggling is a necessary evil if the community is to surv...

  • GOODBYE TO DREAMS

    South Wales, 1929.In a beautiful corner of the south Wales coast, the Owen sisters run their family's grocery shop. The popular seaside resort has always been their haven, even when their mother abandoned them.Now Cecily and Ada live above the shop w...

  • PAINT ON THE SMILES

    South Wales, 1938.Summer has arrived in the beautiful coastal corner of south Wales where for Cecily and Ada Owen business is booming. Holidaymakers are beginning to arrive and the cafés, tea stalls and shops lining the Pleasure Beach are clamou...



  • The Last Of Us Explained

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Grace Thompson has published 50 books.

Grace Thompson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Of Us Explained, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Grace Thompson, Valley Affairs, was published in June 1990.

Yes. Grace Thompson has 4 series.
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